Journal Search Links Added to PubMed® Displays

t he journal abbreviation displayed on PubMed's Abstract and Citation formats will soon be available as a search link. If you click on a journal abbreviation search link, a menu will display three options (see Figure 1). You can search for this journal in PubMed or in the Journals database.

Figure 1: Search menu for the Journal Lancet.

The third option adds a search for the journal to the current search strategy (see Figure 2).

Figure 2: Search with Lancet added.

Please note that the search link for a journal abbreviation will retrieve citations only for that journal; additional mappings that sometimes occur with journal searching will be turned off.

See announcements of other search links:
Author Search Links Added to PubMed®. NLM Tech Bull. 2005 May-Jun;(344):e15.
Search Links Added to PubMed® Displays. NLM Tech Bull. 2005 Sep-Oct;(346):e5.

By Kathi Canese
National Center for Biotechnology Information

Canese K. Journal Search Links Added to PubMed® Displays. NLM Tech Bull. 2005 Nov-Dec;(347):e3.