Northwest Biophysics Consortium
Step 6: Updating publication records
When entering or updating your profile, you can click on Edit publications to update your publication list. You will first be presented with an alphabetical list of the titles that already exist in the administration database. You have several choices for entering new publications into the database. The first option is to click on New to create a new publication entry. Next, select the new entry from the drop-down list and click on Edit. Simply fill out the fields as best as you can, and not if this publication should be selected for the publication highlight section in your profile (by default only the highlighted publications will be shown in your profile, the remaining publications can be accessed under Complete Publication Listing. You can also select any publication to be highlighted under the MBB track information profile by checking the checkbox next to Highlight (an MBB publication):. As an alternative you can import your publications directly from PubMed. THis is the preferred methods (because it saves a lot of time) and because it guarantees that each publication is listed with a PubMed ID, which avoids overwriting and preserves the publication's unique position in your list. You update your list from PubMed by clicking Update from PubMed.