It’s easy to see the most recent articles published by a journal in PubMed. Follow the steps below for an example finding the latest JAMA papers:

1. Access PubMed via the MSK Library website (important for accessing full text PDFs of articles). To access PubMed from the Library website, click on the PubMed link below the main search box.
2. PubMed will launch in a new window. In the PubMed search box, type in: JAMA[journal]
3. Your search results should be comprised of articles from JAMA in date order. The most recent articles will be first. Some of these articles may not be available in full text, as citations for future articles are deposited in PubMed before the issue goes to print (commonly known as epub ahead of print).
4. To access the full text of an article, click on the title you want to read. A page showing the article abstract will appear (not all citations have abstracts). Click on the blue “Fulltext@MSK” button in the upper right hand side of the page.

PubMed sometimes uses journal abbreviations to index journals. To find out the proper way to enter the journal title that will not result in an error, click on “Advanced Search.” Choose “journal” in the box that says “All Fields.” Then start typing the title of the journal you would like to read. Choose the correct journal name from the suggested drop-down list and then search.

You can also save the search and setup an alert to receive new citations to your email. Ask us for help with recurring literature alerts and saving searches in PubMed!

To close out National Patient Safety Week and the Library’s special series of blog posts on the topic, here is a tip for searching PubMed using Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) to retrieve the best possible results.

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There is a new process for exporting ASCO meeting abstracts from the Journal of Clinical Oncology interface – just follow the steps below. Note: it’s no longer possible to batch export abstracts to EndNote… only one abstract at a time is now available. A blog post from 2016 on this matter has been updated to link to this current information.

• To start, open the EndNote library to which you want to add the abstract(s).
• From the JCO interface, click on Special Content > Meeting Abstracts, from the menu near the top of the page.
• Choose a supplement to view the abstracts.
• Click on a title to view the complete abstract.
• Click on export citation found in the column of options to the right of the abstract. 
• On the next screen, choose EndNote as the export option and click the download article citation data button.
• Once the record has been deposited in your EndNote library, the complete abstract can be viewed by clicking on the record > scrolling down to the URL field > and clicking the link provided.

If you would like to export a collection of ASCO abstracts, you will need to leverage a scholarly database to do so (Scopus, Web of Science, etc.). Ask us for assistance with developing a search strategy to capture the abstracts you’re looking for.