PubMed is an excellent free database of scientific abstracts maintained by the federal government of the United States of America. When available, it links to the full-text version hosted by the publisher or the free full-text version hosted on PubMed Central. Approximately 30,000 journals are included in the PubMed Journals list. PubMed is updated daily.
For more information about PubMed and My NCBI beyond setting up alerts, please visit the My NCBI LibGuide.
Step 1. Go to the PubMed Website and log in to your My NCBI account if you are not already logged in.
Step 2a. Once you are logged in, conduct a PubMed search for the terms for which you want to create an alert. On the results page under the search bar, click "Create alert" link.
Step 2b. A pop up will appear for you to specify the details of your alert. Then click "Save".
