March 29, 2005

Using Search Engine PubMed Links to Retreive More Articles

If you follow the links to the PubMed citations found when using a search engine such as Google, not only will you follow a trail to the full citation (and often the full-text of the article), you will now also get a link to a search on the topic described by the citation.

Once you click on the link to go to PubMed, you will see an added red "Note" on the PubMed screen indicating how many citations a direct PubMed search on this topic would produce. PubMed has created an algorithm based on the indexing and key words of the article to identify similar articles. Click on that link to run the search and retrieve more relevant references on your topic. You may have to "re-enter" proxy space (as described above) in order to make the purple UW Article Online button to appear.

Posted by terryj at March 29, 2005 11:20 AM to Events