Troubleshooting PubMed searches (hybrid)
Date / Time
September 30, 2025
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Categories
Gain insights into how PubMed’s search system works, recognize its quirks and refine your searches to improve relevance and reduce unnecessary results.
When you search PubMed, are you sometimes confused by the results you receive? In this hybrid workshop session, you will learn about some of the quirks of PubMed and how these can impact which records are returned in the results. The goal of this session is to give better insights into how PubMed works, as well as potential options and limitations, for decreasing the number of irrelevant results.
Attend in person or online. All workshops will be recorded and made available to all who registered for the online session.
In person in Room 200A at the Library of the Health Sciences – Chicago.
For questions, contact Tina Griffin, tmcg@uic.edu.