Featured Resource: MyNCBI for UCLA: quick tips on setting up your personalized PubMed experience
Have you ever wanted to save your PubMed search and come back to it later? Or how about having the terms you used to search highlighted in the abstract so you can read more quickly? These features and many more are available in MyNCBI, a feature of PubMed at UCLA.
PubMed offers general MyNCBI documentation, but continue reading this post for tips to get your account set up for using UCLA resources. If you have not registered for a MyNCBI account, you will need to do so first before attempting to follow any of the customization recommendations below.
Customization Tips
1. Add the UCeLinks to your MyNCBI Account
Because your individual MyNCBI preferences overwrite any local institution 
preferences, you will lose the UC-eLinks icon if you don’t customize your MyNCBI account. After logging in, click on the Outside Tool link from the left hand blue bar. Select the University of California option and you’ll see a UC-eLink icon appear on the abstracts of your citations. Click the thumbnail image on the right for a detailed screen shot of this tip.
2. Add Filters for Commonly Used Limits
Adding filters allows you to attach your favorite PubMed limits to your search every time you use your MyNCBI. Interested in articles only in English? Or how about only seeing clinical trials or reviews? After logging in, click on the Filters link from the left hand blue bar and select your 
preferred limits. Click the thumbnail image on the right for a detailed screen shot of this tip.The large image below shows a sample PubMed search using MyNCBI filters.
Note: do not use the limits for full text on this MyNCBI screen or you will be severely limiting your results and not seeing many of the journals that UCLA has access to through UC-eLinks.3. Save your Searches & Collections
After setting up your MyNCBI account, you can save searches and collections through the drop down menus on the main PubMed search screen (see image below for an example). 
After saving your searches or collections, they persist in MyNCBI’s Search and Collections screen under the name you assigned to them. Click the thumbnail image on the right for a detailed screen shot of this tip.
4. Update your User Preferences
User Preferences is the space in MyNCBI that saves your email address and lets you set highlighting of your search terms. Once your email address is attached to your MyNCBI account, 
you can set up your searches to run automatically in the Searches and Collections section (see step 3). The searches will send you abstracts only when new items appear in PubMed.
Have further questions about using MyNCBI with PubMed at UCLA? Contact the Biomedical Library!
