Recent Changes to PubMed
Posted by Celia Walter | 10 Jun, 2010The NLM Technical Bulletin lists a few changes to PubMed that were implemented last Thursday (6/3/10). Here is a brief run down of the changes, for more information including helpful graphics go to the May/June issue of the bulletin.
Email Abstract Format - Users can now include/exclude the MeSH and “Other Data” associated with the PubMed citation int he email. The other data would be things like Publication Types.
PubMed Advance Search – The Advance Search page will be modified to provide users with a “more cohesive” method to build searches.” The ‘Search’ and ‘Preview’ buttons will be improved to process search terms present in either the Search Builder box or main search box.” Boolean operator buttons will now be in a pull down menu and terms in the Search Builder will default to AND unless users choose OR or NOT before clicking the Add to Search Box button. Finally, search box in advance search will not include autocomplete and the RSS and the save search feature will not be offered from that page. (It appears that you can still save your advanced searches and RSS them once you have run them and you are on the PubMed Results page.)
PubMed Discovery Ads- At first when I read this title I thought PubMed was going to start allowing advertisements which surprised me. It turns out that what they are discussing are the helpful bits of information in the “discovery area” (right side of PubMed results). The bulletin refers to these helpful bits as “ads” and they are “designed to lead users to additional information or assist with searching.” Whatever NLM wants to call it, this information has a new look to it with fewer lines, colors, and no more bulleted lists.
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