Many people use My NCBI alerts to be notified when new citations of interest appear in PubMed. But you can also set alerts for new datasets in the traditional sequence databases, as well as SRA and GEO. This recorded webinar will show you how.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has released an enhanced version of MeSH on Demand, a tool that can be used to identify Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) terms relevant to an abstract/manuscript. The new version takes advantage of user feedback, extensive usability testing, and continued integration of the Medical Text Indexer (MTI). For more background information, see the article, MeSH on Demand Tool: An Easy Way to Identify Relevant MeSH Terms.

New Features Include:

1. Highlighted user text corresponding to MeSH terms
2. Quick view of MeSH descriptor term definitions (Scope Notes)
3. Search results include PubMed/MEDLINE Similar Articles listed by title and PMID
4. Easy interface to search PubMed using MeSH vocabulary found by MeSH on Demand
5. Function for saving MeSH on Demand data to a text file

Ask us if you would like to learn more about improving your PubMed searches using MeSH.

Google Drive has many features and options for advanced editing/sharing across document types. Some of these features are lesser known than others, but are useful to enhance the productivity when working on projects. Here are just 5 tips to becoming a Google Drive power user:

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