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New PubMed Link from NLM Home Page; Revised Search MEDLINE Page

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April 26, 2001 [posted]

"MEDLINE/PubMed" is the new link on the NLM home page to go directly to PubMed. There already is a direct link from the NLM home page to MEDLINEplus. Previously the "MEDLINE" link went to a page called "Search MEDLINE: PubMed and Internet Grateful Med." For a short time, the new "MEDLINE/PubMed" link took users to a replacement redirect page announcing the change that then connected to PubMed automatically after a few seconds. This was then changed so that the home page link would go directly to PubMed with no intervening notice or page. This series of changes related to the April 2 discontinuation of the Internet Grateful Med MEDLINE screen.

On April 16, 2001 after 2 weeks as a temporary, automatic redirect page, the "Search MEDLINE: PubMed and Internet Grateful Med" Web page was replaced with new text to advise users that MEDLINE should be searched using PubMed. The revised page also advises users that Internet Grateful Med (IGM) will continue to offer searching of a small number of databases through September 2001 and provides links to explanatory articles. The Search MEDLINE page has had a long life, receiving many hits as it served to link users to IGM, PubMed, or MEDLINEplus. Users will now encounter this page only if they had previously bookmarked it, and the revised text is intended to help them choose another more appropriate bookmark.

We are starting to review NLM Web pages that refer to IGM and will be making other appropriate changes over the coming months that correspond to the retirement plan for IGM.