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PubMed® Clipboard Contents Indicator

Canese K. PubMed® Clipboard Contents Indicator. NLM Tech Bull. 2005 Nov-Dec;(347):e13.

December 15, 2005 [posted]
December 21, 2005 [Editor's note added]

[Editor's Note: This feature was implemented in PubMed on December 21, 2005.]

The PubMed Clipboard will soon display an asterisk to indicate if items have been added (see Figure 1) to it. To add citations to the Clipboard select Clipboard from the Send to pull-down menu.

Clipboard with Full Asterisk Indicator.
Figure 1: Clipboard with Contents Asterisk Indicator.

A mouseover of the Clipboard tab will display the number of items collected in the Clipboard (see Figure 2).

Clipboard Full Mouse Over.
Figure 2: Clipboard Tab Mouseover.

Additional information about saving citations temporarily using the Clipboard is available from the PubMed Help.