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NCBI is the National Center for Biotechnology Information. Setting up an NCBI account allows you to personalize your PubMed:
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Save collections of results from searches (otherwise the Clipboard only holds results for 8 hours).
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Save your searches and set up alerts that can be set to automatically run against database updates and send the results to your e-mail
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Customize personal preferences like filters and display settings.
Why do it?
- PubMed is free. You can use it anywhere anytime forever.