5 Ways to Turbocharge your PubMed Searches using MyNCBI
NCBI’s PubMed is essential to the biomedical researcher, and luckily, NCBI offers many interesting ways to increase productivity, especially through MyNCBI.
MyNCBI is a service that allows personalization of NCBI resources to aid your research, saving you time and hassle. Some of the ways you can use it include:
1. Save your search queries
Do you find yourself doing the same PubMed searches every two weeks or monthly? Do you have some complex search queries that take a long time to enter? With MyNCBI, you can save your common search queries for all NCBI databases. This includes PubMed, PubMedCentral (PMC), Genome, Protein, Nucleotide, and many more. 
When logged into MyNCBI, the words “Save Search” appear after you’ve done a query.
After clicking the link, a pop-up appears, letting you give your search a name:
You can access your saved searches from your MyNCBI page, which you can get to by clicking the “MyNCBI” link at the top right of any PubMed web page.
The popup also lets you choose to receive email updates to your search, which leads us to Tip #2.
2. Email the results of your saved queries
Save even more time in your searching by having NCBI send you regular updates to your most useful searches. New results of your saved queries can be sent to you by email daily, weekly, or monthly. You can even specify which day of the week you want to receive the results. This is a great way to keep up with topics without constantly reading journal table of contents.
You can modify these settings later by going to your MyNCBI settings page, which you can get to by clicking the “MyNCBI” link at the top right of any PubMed web page.