PubMed Redesign

PubMed has a new look! The interface was recently updated, and while the functionality is unchanged the overall interface was simplified to make searching easier. A summary of the important changes is listed below.

PubMed Homepage
The PubMed homepage has been streamlined to include an NCBI Header, Search Bar, and Footer that are now common to all PubMed pages. The NCBI Header includes an NCBI Resources pull-down menu categorized by topic, a How To menu, and the Sign In for My NCBI.

The Search Bar retains the database selection menu, and includes a link to Advanced search and Help. Additional Search bar selections, such as RSS and Save search, display after running a PubMed search.

Access to the popular tools and resources previously found on the PubMed homepage sidebar can be found under PubMed Tools (Single Citation Matcher and Clinical Queries) and More Resources (MeSH Database and Journals Database).

The Limits, Preview/Index, History and Details tabs' features have been consolidated in Advanced search.

Summary Results
Changes to the Summary format include these modifications:

• Item checkboxes appear above the item number.
• Items in the Clipboard display the green note 'Item in clipboard' in lieu of displaying the citation number in green.
• Display Settings and Send to features (see below) appear only at the top of the search results.
• To move to another page, the options are now First, Last, Previous, and Next.

Display Settings
The Display Settings menu replaces the Display, Show and Sort By menus. The consolidated Display Settings menu can be used to change results to a different display format, change the number of items per page, and the sort parameter.

Send to (destination options)
The 'Send to' menu should be used to send citations to a File, Clipboard, Collections, E-mail, or to Order. The RSS feature was moved from the 'Send to' menu to the Search bar.

Advanced Search
Changes include:

• Incorporating the new search bar
• Renaming the Queries section to More Resources
• Adding a link to the Single Citation Matcher in the More Resources section

For questions about using the new PubMed interface, see the PubMed Quick Start and PubMed Tutorial or ask us questions or for additional training.