Skip to main content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Here’s how you know

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

This is archived content.

Links may have become inactive over time. Visit Archive-It   to find the original published layout.

Full Journal Name Option for PubMed Retrieval

Canese K. Full Journal Name Option for PubMed Retrieval. NLM Tech Bull. 2005 Jan-Feb;(342):e6.

January 27, 2005 [posted]

drop cap letter for t o help users more easily identify the journal in their PubMed results, a mouseover of the MEDLINE journal abbreviation will display the full journal name (see Figure 1). The mouseover feature will be available for the Summary, Abstract and Citation displays for most Web browsers.

[Editor's Note: This feature was implemented in PubMed on February 1, 2005.]

  figure 1: graphic

Additional journal information is available from the Entrez Journals and NLM Catalog databases.



By Kathi Canese
National Center for Biotechnology Information