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05 September 2009

PubMed Tutorial Skill C: "Limits" Features (Make Easy)

Click here to return to Skill A: Buidling Blocks for a Simple Search
Click here to return to Skill B: Journal Search

Skill C: "Limits" Features
"Limits" features in PubMed is a very useful tool. It allows you to search your search terms in specific fields like "Titles", "Abstracts" etc. And allows you to specifically retrieve "RCTs" or "Reviews" etc. An intermediate feature of "Limits" is Using "Filters".


Step 1: Access PubMed Online Tutorial Main Page http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/pubmedtutorial/index.html --> Click on "Buidling the Search"


Step 2: Click on "Limits".
This will bring you to the tutorial page "Limits" as shown below.


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