Background Work on this tutorial began in the summer of 1999. The tutorial is based on the PubMed portion of NLM's Keeping Up with NLM's PubMed, the NLM Gateway and ClinicalTrials.gov course that is taught throughout the country. The interactive tutorial is useful to the casual, first-time, PubMed searcher as well as to the more experienced PubMed searcher. The tutorial is divided into eight instructional modules.
Users can either go through the entire tutorial or select individual modules for a refresher.
A glossary of terms is a useful feature of this tutorial. Glossary terms are highlighted throughout the text portion of the tutorial. When users click on these highlighted terms, a pop-up window will appear with the term's definition. Alternatively, the entire glossary may be browsed. Review questions and search exercises are also part of the tutorial.