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My NCBI saves searches and results, and features an option to automatically update and e-mail search results from your saved searches. My NCBI includes additional features for highlighting search terms, storing an e-mail address, filtering search results and setting LinkOut, document delivery service and outside tool preferences.
My NCBI is a tool that retains user information and preferences to provide customized services. It allows you to save searches, select filtering options, and set up automatic searches that are sent by e-mail. To use My NCBI, your Web browser must accept cookies and allow pop-ups from NCBI Web pages.
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The My NCBI link appears at the top right of the screen on all databases pages. To display the My NCBI box from the NCBI homepage, choose a database from the Search pull-down menu and click Search.
Click on the My NCBI link in the upper right hand corner of the page.
Enter a username (3 or more characters) and a password (6 or more characters). Usernames and passwords are case-sensitive.
Choose a security question and answer so you can use them to reset your password if you forget them.
Below the Security Question, you will see an image with 5 characters. This step is to help us prevent automated programs from registering accounts.
Enter an e-mail address if you want to receive updates of search results periodically.
When you provide an e-mail address with your registration, you will need to confirm by clicking on the link that is provided in the confirmation e-mail from NCBI. This email address will be used for both automatic e-mail updates and the Send to E-mail feature in PubMed.
After confirming your e-mail address, which you will receive in an email, you can start setting up automatic e-mails for search alerts. More information on automatic e-mails is provided in Setting Up Automatic E-mail Updates.
Note:
Only one e-mail address can be associated with each account.
Record your username, password, and answer to the security question in a safe place for future reference.
Click on Sign In, in the My NCBI box located in the upper right hand corner of http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez/.
Enter your username and password.
Check the Keep me signed in box to automatically activate My NCBI each time you use the databases. You can sign out at any time by clicking on Sign Out in the My NCBI box.
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A checked Keep me signed in box saves your My NCBI preferences on your computer in a persistent cookie file. It will also retain your password so that you do not need to sign in again.
If the Keep me signed in box is not checked, you will be automatically signed out when you close your Web browser. Additionally, any searches or preferences you set will not be saved.
If the Remember my username box is not checked, you will need to re-type your username the next time you log into My NCBI.
Using My NCBI without your username and password means that after eight (8) hours of inactivity on PubMed or other databases, all history and preferences will be lost.
In case you forget your username:
Click I forgot my username on My NCBI’s Sign In page.
Enter your e-mail address.
Click Send Reminder.
An e-mail will be sent to the e-mail address you provided with your username information.
In case you forget your password:
Click I forgot my password on My NCBI’s Sign In page.
Enter your username.
Click Next.
Answer the security question. Note: Answers to the security question are no longer case-sensitive.
You will be instructed to set up a new password.
Confirm password in the text box for Repeat Password.
Click Finish.
Sign into My NCBI with your username and new password.
Make sure you are signed in to My NCBI.
Click on Preferences in the left blue sidebar entitled Table of Contents.
Click Password under Common Preferences.
Enter your old and new passwords.
Click Save.
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On any database page, run a search—make sure you are signed in to My NCBI.
Click on Save Search, located above the search text box. (Figure A in image below.)
You will be guided to your MyNCBI page. Click Save when prompted. (Figure C in image below.)
You will be prompted to set up your automated e-mail preferences at this time. This can be done at a later time.
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To save a search from the My NCBI home page, run a search by clicking on the link with the number of Saved Searches under My Saved Data. (If you click on the My Saved Data tab on the left side of the page underneath Table of Contents, you will need to click Manage next to Saved Searches, and then on the create some saved searches link.)
You may use History numbers in your search, however, PubMed processes from left to right so order your search statement numbers with this in mind, or use parentheses for nesting.
Your saved searches will be listed in the My Saved Data section of My NCBI, which can be accessed by clicking on My NCBI, located at the top right of any major Entrez database page (Figure B in the image above). Searches are grouped per database and listed by the date and time they were saved for the first time.
Saved searches cannot be edited but they may be changed. See Changing a Search for more details.
You can now save searches through the Recent Activity section in MyNCBI.
In most Entrez databases*, when you click on Save Search (A in the image above) you are asked if you would like to receive e-mail updates of new search results automatically. Automatic e-mail updates of search results are then sent according to the frequency you selected when saving your search in My NCBI (none, once a month, once a week, or everyday). You can also choose display, format and optional text.
The text, which appears in the body of your e-mail updates, can be used to create a title for your search or any specific information you want. You may enter up to 100 characters for the search title. The name of the saved search will be included in the Subject of your automated e-mail update messages. If you have trouble remembering the name of your original search word or phrase(s), hover over the search term with your mouse in My NCBI’s My Saved Data. It will display the original search word or phrase(s).
Automatic e-mail updates can only be sent to e-mail addresses that have been confirmed. See Registering with My NCBI for more information. Automatic e-mail updates that bounce back three times will no longer be sent and the e-mail address will be invalid.
In the rare case of technical problems, updates may miss some citations. Users receiving automatic updates should use the option to link to view complete results to minimize the risk.
*The databases that support e-mail updates are:
PubMed, Protein, Genome, PubMed Central, Taxonomy, SNP, PubChem Compound, PubChem BioAssay, 3D Domains, GEO DataSets, CDD, Structure, NLM Catalog, PubChem Substance, Nucleotide, PopSet, Est, GSS
To change or create a schedule for a saved search select My Saved Data, click the Saved Searches Manage link, and then click Edit next to the search name.
Click on the Saved Search you want to change. You will be pointed to the same box where you first saved the search and set up the e-mail schedule. You can then change the e-mail schedule or any other settings you want.
To unsubscribe from an e-mail update, click on the link that is provided in the e-mail update sent to you.
When signed in to My NCBI, click on My NCBI at the top right of the screen. Then click My Saved Data from the blue sidebar and then Manage Saved Searches. Click on the name of your search to run the saved search in its respective Entrez database. This will not change the date displayed in the Last Searched (A in the image below) column.
If you have set up an e-mail schedule for receiving search updates, this information is displayed in the Schedule (B) column. For searches that you have not set up a schedule or which were run in databases that do not offer this feature, you will see none displayed in the Schedule column.
To check for new results, select a search by checking the checkbox and click on Show What’s New (C). A hyperlinked number is displayed indicating how many new items were found. Click on this hyperlink to view the new items. This action will update the information in the Last Searched column. If you do not click on the hyperlink to see the new items, the date and time of your search in the Last Searched column will remain the same.
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Not all databases support automatic updates. In this case, the option Show What’s New will not be available.
Dates and date ranges are not recommended for saved searches.
In the event an update is not sent out on schedule or is incomplete, the next scheduled update will include the omitted items, if any.
Click the database searches’ column headings to sort alphabetically by name, last searched date, or schedule.
After running and saving your first Saved Search, you will only need to run and save the search directly in its Entrez database (e.g. PubMed) to add future additional searches.
To sort My Saved Searches, click on the column name, and then on the small blue arrow to change the descending or ascending order. The order of the columns can also be changed by drag and drop. Searches can be sorted:
alphabetically by name
by date last updated
by schedule
Go to the My Saved Data section of your My NCBI page. Click on Manage next to Saved Searches.
Check the box next to the name of the search you want to delete.
Click Delete [Database Name] Searches. The button name will include the name of the database.
Saved searches cannot be edited in My NCBI; save a new search with your changes and delete the old one.
To change a saved search:
Make sure you are signed in to My NCBI.
Under My Saved Data; click the name of the saved search you want to change.
The saved search will run in PubMed without any date limits, and the search will display in the search box.
From there, you can edit, change or correct the search by making changes in the search text box. Click Search to run the revised search.
Click the Save Search link next to the search box and follow the steps to save the revised search.
Delete the old saved search.
Search results from databases can be saved in My NCBI using the Collections feature.
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To save search results to a collection:
Make sure you are signed in to My NCBI.
Run a search.
From the search results page, click the check box next to the item number for items you want to save; if you do not select any items all results up to 5,000 items will be sent to collections. An automated message will confirm “Add the first 5,000 items.”
After selecting items you wish to save, select Collections from the Send to pull-down menu, as shown in the image below. Click Add to Collections. The browser will open with My NCBI’s Collections page. Note: The maximum number was recently increased to 5,000 from 500. If you have saved any Collections prior to February 2009 , then these will remain with 500 as the maximum number unless you recreate the Collection again.
A Save Collection page will display. Create new collection will be selected by default (A in the image below).
My NCBI will create a default collection name using the number of items you are saving in the collection unless you decide to select the first 5,000 items (B in the image below). You should rename your collection using a short, yet meaningful, title. Be careful when naming Collections. Identical names for different Collections are allowed and may cause confusion.
Click Save to finish (C in the image below).
From My NCBI Home, click on the hyperlink with the number of Collections. Then click on the Collection name. This will display the Collection search results in its database. You may also display a Collection search by clicking the Collection’s name in My Saved Data. Make sure you are signed in to My NCBI.
Additionally, if you are Editing a Collection, a quick way to access the search results is to click on the magnifying glass icon located on the Actions toolbar.
Like saved searches, saved collections will be grouped by database.
From this screen, you can sort your collections, view Collection Details, or view the Collection in its source database.
Click the check box on next to Name to select all Collections.
Click Edit to view collection contents, change the name, or delete individual items within a collection.
To sort Collections, click the descending or ascending arrow next to the column headings on the Collections screen. A blue arrow indicates the currently selected sort option. Collections can be sorted:
alphabetically by name
by date last modified
by number of items in the collection
To view the Collection’s results, click on the Collection Name and it will appear in its respective database.
To merge Collections, select the Collections you want to merge by clicking the checkbox next to the Collection name on the Collections screen. Click the Merge PubMed Collections button. You will see the Merge Collections screen. Name the merged Collection using a short, yet meaningful, title.
To remove the original, separate Collections, click the checkbox next to Delete collections being merged? If you would like to keep the original Collections in addition to the newly Merged Collection, remember to select Keep them. Click Merge Collections button.
To change the name of a Collection:
Make sure you are in the My Saved Data section of My NCBI. Click on the Edit link next to the Collection Name you would like to rename. Click on the blue Folder icon next to Actions at the top (as shown in the image below). Enter the new name for the Collection in the Collection Name text box. Then click Save.
Appending Search Results to Existing Collections:
To add search results to an existing collection, follow steps 1 – 5 under Creating Collections. On the Save Collection page, select Append to an existing collection (A in the image below). The window will change to display a “Choose a collection” pull-down menu with your collections listed (B in the image below). Choose the collection you want to add items and click Save (C in the image below).
To delete items from a collection:
Click Edit next to the Collection which you wish to modify. Click the checkbox next to items you want to delete and click the Red X icon,
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My NCBI collections and bibliographies are now set as either "Private" (the default) or "Public." A collection set to Public can be shared with others.
Steps for changing a collection from Private to Public:
Access your collection in My NCBI: From the My NCBI homepage, click on My Saved Data, then click on Manage for Collections.
On the screen listing your collections, the "Sharing" column indicates the setting for each collection. Click on the Private link for the collection you want to share.
Under Collection Sharing, click the radio button for Public. Notice that a URL and an HTML code are provided. You can use the URL to share with others and the HTML code to post onto a web page.
Click Save.
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Any time someone uses the URL or the link created by the HTML to see the collection, the retrieval will include the citations currently in the collection maintained by the user of the My NCBI account. Adding or deleting items in the collection does not require an update to the URL/HTML.
If a collection is changed back to Private, the URL/HTML will no longer work. Be sure to use the Save button after making changes.
This feature is available for any database that has collections (currently: PubMed, Journals, NLM® Catalog, and PubMed Central®).
My Bibliography and Other Citations are available to save your PubMed citations using a search template. No longer in the Bibliographies section within My Saved Data, My Bibliography and Other Citations are now located in Collections. Whether you are an author and want to populate your papers from PubMed, or you are user who would like to populate specific searches by author, utilize My Bibliography to easily access these citations. A new feature now allows users to populate searches not only through journal articles in PubMed but also through books, meetings, presentations, and patents.
To populate a My Bibliography Collection with author-specific items, make sure you are signed in to My NCBI so that your preferences are saved with your username.
Make sure you are in the My Saved Data section of My NCBI.
Click on the link My Bibliography under Collections. Click on the blue plus icon
on the Actions toolbar.
Select how you want to search for an item. Adding items by existing PubMed journal articles is the default search filter, but you may select the search filters for adding journal articles manually. New search filters include books and chapters, meeting abstracts, presentations, patents, and non-standard citations.
After selecting a search filter, click continue. When searching by citations in PubMed, enter an author name (or select from autocomplete listing). You can also search citations by Title Words. For even more filtered search options, click on the tab More Options where you can search by Author, Title Words, Years Published, Journal, Grant Number, Affiliation, and PMID.
When selecting search filters other than articles in PubMed, after clicking continue, make sure to fill in all required fields in order for the search to have results. All required fields will be denoted with a red asterisk.
After the results of the search are displayed, click
next to the items you want to save to your my Bibliography. Make sure
is displayed after you have selected any items. After you have completed all selections, click
to save them to your Bibliography collection.
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Use the Other Citations link in My Saved Data to create additional Bibliography collections.
To add more items to My Bibliography, simply follow steps 1—5 above.
When viewing My Bibliography items, you can Edit My Bibliography Settings to share your Bibliography settings (just like Sharing Collections) and by adding delegates.
My Bibliography is defaulted to be private. To Share your Bibliography:
Make sure you are signed in to My NCBI.
Click on My Bibliography or Other Citations. This takes you to the citation list for the bibliography.
On this screen, use the link, Edit My Bibliography Settings to go to the screen where you can change the sharing settings.
Select the radio button for Public Bibliography Sharing. A Direct URL and HTML code will be provided for you to now easily send to others to view your Bibliography items.
Click Save.
Delegates are other persons who will be granted access by you, the user, to view and manage your Bibliography. The delegate will then be able to add and remove citations to the Bibliography and perform other functions. To enable other persons to be delegates:
Make sure you are signed in to My NCBI.
Click on My Bibliography.
Click Edit My Bibliography Settings.
Click Add a Delegate.
Enter your delegate’s email address.
Click Add Delegate.
Your delegate will receive an email in which the delegate must then confirm by clicking on a link in the email.
To quickly view your My Bibliography citations in PubMed, make sure you are in My Bibliography from the My Saved Data section in My NCBI. All Bibliography items that are in PubMed are hyperlinked—click on the title of the paper and it will go directly to the citation. You can also select multiple items and then click the magnifiying glass icon located in the Actions toolbar
.
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The default View in My Bibliography is the Summary View,
. This lists Bibliography items with hyperlinked titles linking to its citation in PubMed. To view your Bibliography items without PubMed or PMC IDs, and hyperlinks, you may view items in the Print View,
. Here is an example of the difference in Views for one citation—the top example is the default Summary View, the bottom of the Print View:
Jackson SP, Yap CL, Anderson KE. Phosphoinositide 3-kinases and the regulation of platelet function. Biochem Soc Trans. 2004 Apr;32(Pt 2):387-92. PubMed PMID: 15046614.
Jackson SP, Yap CL, Anderson KE. Phosphoinositide 3-kinases and the regulation of platelet function.. Biochem Soc Trans. 2004 Apr; 32 (Pt 2) :387-92.
When adding citations manually to My Bibliography, there will no hyperlink in the title unless it does exist in PubMed. If not, the citation will be displayed with a pencil icon,
however, for you to edit if necessary.
There are three ways to sort the order for Bibliography or Other Citations items: by publication date, first author, title.
To sort by date, click on the icon with the number 15,
. Dates are sorted by earliest to most recent from top to bottom. These are not sorted by Entrez date but the date the citation was published.
To sort by author, click on the icon,
. This will sort publications by the first listed authors in alphabetical order.
To sort by title, click on the icon,
. This will sort titles alphabetically.
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The default setting for the Sort option is to Group by: Type of Citation. You may use the drop down menu to Sort by the various methods of Sorting items in My Bibliography as well as to modify the Grouping option. Please note that when selecting the No Grouping option, citations will be listed in one list.
Meeting abstracts have two different dates: conference date and publication date. When listed in My Bibliography with sorting by Date and No Grouping, please note that the publication date will be used to determine the sort date.
When a publication has both a print date and Epub date, the print date will be used for sorting dates.
To delete items, go to My Bibliography under My Saved Data. Select all items you wish to remove. Click on the red X icon
. Select Remove Items from the popup window. A confirmation note will appear stating the number of citations was successfully removed.
The Recent Activity section under Saved Data in MyNCBI is a listing of users’ searches and records viewed for the last 6 months. All searches and records in Recent Activity are hyperlinked so that users can easily view them again or keep a record of all past queries. Recent Activity will only save results for registered MyNCBI users when they are signed in.
The Recent Activity option is automatically defaulted to be On. Users can opt to turn off the Recent Activity option by clicking on the drop down menu icon,
, and scrolling down to the option “Turn Recent Activity Off…”.
You can also turn Recent Activity off directly from Entrez databases. You will notice that in the databases, a Recent Activity box is present to the right of the screen. Click Turn Off.
When users opt to turn off Recent Activity, a pink strip stating that Recent Activity is off will display each time you visit your Recent Activity in MyNCBI.
If at a later time users would like to turn the Recent Activity option back on, click on the link Turn Recent Activity On or you can also click on the drop down menu icon,
, and scroll down to Turn Recent Activity On….
To clear all Recent Activity records, click on the drop down menu icon,
. Select the option Clear Recent Activity.
You can also clear Recent Activity from an Entrez database by clicking Clear in the Recent Activity box.
Once you agree to Clear Recent Activity, the action cannot be undone. A popup message will confirm if you want to clear all items for Recent Activity. Click Clear Recent Activity if you are sure you want to erase all records.
To sort Recent Activity, be sure you are in the Recent Activity section of MyNCBI. There are two ways to Sort items: by Date/Time and by Entrez database.
To sort your Recent Activity by Date/Time, Click on the icon with the number 15,
. The most recent searches will be listed first.
To sort your Recent Activity by Application, or Entrez database, click on the green, blue, and yellow colored icon,
.
You may either select all items in your Recent Activity to be deleted or individually click each item. After you have selected items to be deleted, click on the red X icon,
. A message will notify you that the amount of items you have deleted have been removed.
If you want to save a search from a past query, you can now go to your Recent Activity without having to run the search again in a database. Go to Recent Activity, select an item that you would now like to save, and click on the icon with the paper and arrow,
. Enter a name for your new saved search. Click Save. The search is successful if the message appears under the Actions toolbar “Search saved successfully.” You can then also opt to edit your saved search.
Only past Records may be moved to a Collection in your MyNCBI. Select an item you wish to incorporate into one of your Collections. Go to the Actions toolbar and click on the folder icon,
. Select the Collection where you wish to move the item. Click Move.
The My NCBI Preferences can be found in the blue sidebar of the My NCBI page (to see the My NCBI blue sidebar, click on My NCBI located at the top right of any database page). My NCBI Preferences currently allows you to change the display of the links menu, update your e-mail address for automatic search updates, activate search term highlighting, and select a single citation display format in PubMed.
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Users can change the display of the Links menu on any results page. To learn about Links, see the Entrez Help Document. To change the display format of the Links menu, click on Links Display located in the Preferences section of My NCBI. Select your preferences and save. The available formats are:
Plain Links: Displays links as separate selections.
Pop-up Window: Opens a separate small window with link selections.
To change your e-mail address for receiving e-mail updates:
Click Preferences on the My NCBI sidebar.
Click on E-mail Address.
Enter an e-mail address.
Click Save. A new confirmation e-mail will be sent to you.
You can choose to have your search terms highlighted in retrieved database records. By default this option is off, but you can pick one of the ten colors available in the Highlighting section of My NCBI Preferences to have your search terms highlighted.
Terms other than the one(s) you have used in your query are also highlighted at times. For example, if you search PubMed using the term ‘cancer’, you will also find citations with the term ‘neoplasm’ highlighted. That is because Entrez has a dictionary of synonymous terms, such as ‘cancer’ and ‘neoplasm’ that are equally considered when you search a database using one of them. To find out what synonymous terms PubMed has considered in your search, click on Advanced Search on the main .
Scroll to Index of Fields and Field Values. Type in the term “cancer” and select All Fields from the drop down menu. Scrolling to the next 200 terms, you can see the term “neoplasm”.
In some cases, you will retrieve PubMed citations that have no highlighting in its abstract, which means that neither the search term nor a synonymous word was found in the abstract of the article. However, terms that appear as MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) terms or Substances on a record will be highlighted in the supplemental information section of the citation. For example, a search in PubMed with the term ABCD4 retrieves, among others, the following record that does not have the term ABCD4 (or any synonymous term) in its abstract: The four murine peroxisomal ABC-transporter genes differ in constitutive, inducible and developmental expression.
Just scroll to the bottom of the page and expand the Publication Types, MeSH Terms, Substances list (see image below), and you will see that the term ABCD4 (full term “ABCD4 protein, mouse”) appears in the record.
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MeSH is the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus. It consists of sets of terms naming descriptors in a hierarchical structure that permits searching at various levels of specificity. Click here for more information on MeSH terms.
When a PubMed search returns multiple citations, the results display in the Summary format. From the Summary format, a click on the author name(s) or the icon to the left of each citation takes you to the AbstractPlus format for the single citation. You can change the default display format for a single citation by selecting a new format from the PubMed Preferences; Single Citation Display page.
New to PubMed, the Auto Suggest feature is defaulted to be on whenever users start typing in search terms. When users start typing letters into the Search box within the PubMed database, the Auto Suggest will suggest some of the most popular PubMed searches. You can click on any of the suggested terms.
To turn off the Auto Suggest feature scroll to the bottom of the Auto Suggest menu when you start to type in a term. There is a Turn Off option.
To turn the Auto Suggest feature back on, go to your MyNCBI page. Go to the Preferences page. Click on the Auto Suggest link within your PubMed Preferences.
Then click the radio button for On.
Click Save.
Note: The Auto Suggest feature will be turned back on after eight hours of inactivity.
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Search results are grouped into subsets by filters. For example, in the PubMed database, filters can be used to group results into reviews, or clinical trials, among other choices. In My NCBI, you can select your preferred filter to be active every time you run a search. In the figure below, three filters have been activated: Review and Free Full Text. Filtered results with their respective counts are displayed as links, in a section located to the right of the web page, which contains the complete list of records retrieved in each search. In the example below, a search in PubMed with the term human genetic deficiences has generated 2,337 citations, of which 945 are grouped in the Review result tab; 566 are in Free Full Text. Up to five filters are allowed per database.
To set up your filter selection, click on Search Filters in the sidebar of the My NCBI screen. Choose the database in which you want to set your filter preferences. Under the blue tab My Filters, click your preferences for tabs. Then click the blue tab Frequently Requested Filters which lists most commonly requested filters.
In Browse Filters, you can browse a list of filters that is divided in three categories: LinkOut, Links, and Properties. LinkOut and Properties are divided into subcategories that might include additional subcategories. Records that have links to resources provided by outside organizations can be grouped using LinkOut (more on LinkOut). Records that have links to other Entrez databases can be grouped using Links. For example, you can select Links to OMIM to create a result tab that groups all records retrieved in a search that have links to OMIM. The result tab is active every time you search any Entrez database (see image below).
Properties groups records according to specific criteria such as language, gender, age group, or publication date.
Simply click on the Properties Subcategories you are interested in then on each appropriate checkbox and the filter is automatically generated. In the case of LinkOut and Properties, you can choose to have either a single filter added to your search results or an entire category or subcategory.
If you know the name of the filter you are interested in, you can search for filter names and descriptions using the Search for Filters tab. To see your active filters and icon settings, check My Filters. You can also create Custom Filters.
Some databases have a default set of result tabs that are active whether you have a My NCBI account or not. Default filters can be replaced by your filter selection, which can also be accessed and changed from all Entrez results pages. When on a results page, look for an icon showing a tool icon
displayed to the right of the filter tabs (see also the image above). A click on this icon will point you to the filters box in My NCBI.
It is now possible to customize your own filters for any of the Entrez databases. To create a custom filter:
In MyNCBI, click Search Filters (from the Table of Contents sidebar).
Click on a database link.
Click on the Custom Filters tab. Click on the link create a new one.
Enter the Name for this Custom Filter and the Search terms that you wish to use for this Filter. You can then Run Filter to see the number of citations retrieved by the filter search.
If you are satisfied with the Custom Filter, click Save. The window will then display your customized filters. Make sure to click the checkbox next to your newly created Custom Filter in order to activate it. After you select your newly created Filter, a green text box will confirm that the Filter has been added.
Some examples of custom filters:
Examples of custom filters:
| Address of first author | mayo [ad] AND clinic [ad] |
| Library holdings or anything available free | "loprovnlmlib"[Filter] OR free full text [sb] |
| Articles identified by a funding agency | nci [gr] |
| Items from particular journals | Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol [ta] OR Birth Defects Res B Dev Reprod Toxicol [ta] OR Birth Defects Res C Embryo Today [ta] OR Clin Dysmorphol [ta] OR Congenit Anom Kyoto [ta] |
| Any term | delivery of health care [mh] |
| Any combination of terms | clinical trial [pt] AND aged [mh] |
| Free text searching | health disparities |
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There is a limit of five filters (including custom filters) that can be selected and listed under My Tabs in My Filters.
Custom Filters cannot be appended to a search.
Make sure you are signed in to MyNCBI to have Filters on while searching the databases.
LinkOut is a feature that links individual records retrieved in a search to a variety of external resources, such as full-text publications, biological databases, consumer health information, and research tools. The available links are supplied by outside providers interested in linking their resources to NCBI databases. Not every database record has links to external resources.
To set up LinkOut, start by selecting Search Filters (from the Table of Contents sidebar) in the same way you would set up any filter, as explained in the previous section. Select the database in which you want LinkOut to be displayed. You can either browse or search the list of available external resources.
To search the list, enter the name of a provider in the search box. Then click Search. The name of the provider, if available, will be displayed in the Results Section. You can click on the (website) of the provider for more information.
As explained earlier, there are three types of available filters; LinkOut is one of them.
Under the name of the provider in the Results Section are two possible selections. Although these two possibilities are shown regardless of the database you have selected, the Add as a link icon is only available to users of PubMed. In any other database, LinkOut can only be displayed as a result tab. The link icon display might be available in other Entrez databases in the future.
The image below shows LinkOut displayed as link icons, available in PubMed only. You may also access links to full text by clicking on the LinkOut links beneath the citation.
You can also use My NCBI to browse a list of available external resources and providers. To do this, start by selecting Saved Filters in My NCBI, as explained previously. Select the database in which you want LinkOut to be displayed. Click on Browse Filters and select LinkOut. Choose a subcategory of LinkOut and proceed as described in the beginning of this section. Remember that the icon display is available only to users of PubMed.
You can also choose to have LinkOut icons included in your automatic e-mail updates of searches done in PubMed (to learn about automatic e-mail updates, see Setting Up Automatic E-mail Updates). To do this, select Abstract as the display format for your e-mails when setting up your search alert. If available, all LinkOut icons that you have selected in My NCBI will be included in your e-mail alerts, together with your PubMed search updates.
For full documentation help on LinkOut, visit http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=helplinkout.chapter.Public.
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Document Delivery Service (DDS) is a feature of PubMed that allows you to order articles described in PubMed citations from an institution of your choice. By default, orders are sent to Loansome Doc, the document delivery service of the National Library of Medicine. To change the DDS for your orders, click Preferences in the My NCBI sidebar and then choose a service from the list of institutions found the Document Delivery link. After you have made your selection, your orders will be sent to the selected institution.
Please note that Document Delivery Service providers may restrict the service to affiliated users or may charge for document delivery.
To order documents, click the checkbox next to the article(s) you want to order. When you are ready to order, select Order from the Send to pull-down menu, as shown below. You will be directed to the Document Delivery Service form.
You can mark several citations to be included in a single order. Alternatively, before ordering all your selections, you can save them temporarily in the Clipboard. To send your selections to the Clipboard, proceed as usual but select Clipboard from the Send to pull-down menu, instead of Order. When you have decided what articles you want to order, click the Clipboard tab. In the Clipboard, you do not need to check the articles you want to order but you do need to check the ones you do not want. To remove unwanted articles from the Clipboard, select Clip Remove from the Send to pull-down menu. When you are ready to order, select Order from the Send to pull-down menu. You will be directed to the Document Delivery Service form. Complete the requested information.
Your DDS selection is active only while signed into My NCBI. When you sign out, the DDS default choice is restored. Document delivery services sponsored by some institutions might be available only to users of that institution. Some institutions may also charge a fee for their services.
Outside Tool allows libraries to add a link from PubMed citations to a link resolver available at their institution. These links are displayed as icons in PubMed’s Abstract, AbstractPlus, and Citation displays (see image below).
When you click on the icon, you are directed to the available services for that citation offered by the sponsoring library. These services might include access to electronic full text or information on local print holdings.
To turn on an Outside Tool, click on Preferences on the My NCBI sidebar and then click Outside Tool. Select an institution from the available list and click Save; the selected icon will display in PubMed’s Abstract, AbstractPlus, and Citation formats. To learn how to change the display format of your results, see the Entrez Help Document.
Keep in mind that most Outside Tools are fully accessible only to individuals affiliated with the sponsoring institution.
For more information on Outside Tool, visit http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=helplinkout.section.related.Outside_Tool.
Several tutorials are available on how to use My NCBI with PubMed.
