PubMed offers a number of useful apps as well as a mobile version of the site.
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uCentral currently offers one of the best apps for searching MEDLINE, the predominate component of PubMed. It is free to UAB users and has better search and limit features than many of the PubMed apps. iOS, Android, Windows, RIM. Free to UAB users.
PubMed CLIP is a search and sharing tool for PubMed. Allows for advanced searching, automatically saves search history, and offers EZProxy support so you can connect to Lister Hill content. You can also share via e-mail, Twitter, Facebook & Evernote. For iOS. $2.99.
PubMed On Tap Lite allows you to search PubMed, retrieve, e-mail, & store references & PDFs in your personal library. Be sure to set the EZProxy. See instructions below. For iPhone, iOS. Free.
PubMed On Tap allows you to search PubMed, retrieve, e-mail, & store references & PDFs in your personal library. Be sure to set the EZProxy. See instructions below. For iOS. $2.99.
PubSavvy offers search features like other PubMed apps. It also offers tools to quickly create & save collections and e-mail citations in formats for reference manager software. For iOS. $1.99.
PubMed Mobile for Android allows you to easily search for, save, and send articles. The current version lacks EZProxy support so you will be unable to link directly to Lister Hill's materials. For Android. Free.
After you've downloaded PubMed On Tap or PubMed On Tap Lite you'll need to set the library Proxy to Lister Hill Library so you can obtain full text. Open the app and go to settings.
Set your library proxy as http://uab.idm.oclc.org/login?url=%@
Before you exit settings make sure Check for Full Text is turned on.
Open Safari and go to http://pubmedhh.nlm.nih.gov/. You may want to bookmark this site because if you go to the regular pubmed.gov site you won't go to the PubMed Mobile interface. From the PubMed Mobile site select PICO search:
Enter the components of your PICO question
From your results you can view the abstract or the full text if available.
Notice that you can e-mail, view full text or save the article:
