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New PubMed Limits Added

New PubMed Limits Added. NLM Technical Bulletin. 1999 Nov–Dec;(311):e1.

November 1999 [posted]

Several new selections in the Limits area were added on November 29, 1999 to the beta version of PubMed (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi) as well as a new Text display button.

Additional Subset Values Added
Three new values have been added to the Subset pull-down menu to further limit your search to a predefined set of MEDLINE journals:

AIM (Abridged Index Medicus MEDLINE journals)
Dental (Dental MEDLINE journal subset)
Nursing (Nursing MEDLINE journal subset)

Abstracts-only Selection
A new check box is now available. Click in this box to limit your search to "only items with abstracts." Remember, abstracts were introduced in 1975.

Text Button available for Displaying Citations
You will now see a Text button to the right of the Save button on all screens with search results. The Text button redisplays the citations using just the text of the records and omitting the Web or HTML components. You may want to print via your Web browser using this feature so you do not print PubMed's sidebar and buttons unnecessarily. The text version will display either selected citations, or if no citations are selected, all the citations on the page. Before using the Text button, consider using the Show feature to increase the number of items per page. When finished with the text display, use your Web browser's Back button to return to your results in HTML.