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New Secondary Source ID (Databank) Search Value

New Secondary Source ID (Databank) Search Value. NLM Tech Bull. 2015 Jan-Feb;(402):b4.

January 23, 2015 [posted]

A new PubMed search option "hasdatabanklist" has been created to retrieve citations that carry a value in the Secondary Source ID [SI] field regardless of what the specific value(s) may be. Typically, the SI field contains information about where additional data related to an article are deposited. Please see MEDLINE Databank Sources to view the list of repository values.

To limit a search to citations that may have deposited data in a repository and acknowledged that deposit in the full text of the article, search using AND hasdatabanklist; for example:

randomized controlled trial [pt] AND hasdatabanklist