Add PubMed to Your Web Site
Last Updated: December 4, 2006

NCBI invites you to link from your Web site to PubMed at http://www.pubmed.gov.

In order to facilitate including a link to PubMed from your Web site, we are making images and HTML available for your use.

• Terms of use
• Text to describe PubMed
• Text and Graphics links
• Adding the PubMed search box to your site
• Special instructions for LinkOut providers

Terms of use:

You may generate a query on your Web page and submit it to PubMed and the other Entrez databases providing that proper attribution is given to the US National Library of Medicine (NLM) and PubMed. It must be clear to users that the search is actually being conducted at NLM. When you link to PubMed, we recommend that you present PubMed in a separate browser window. NCBI's Disclaimer and Copyright notice must be evident to users of your service. NLM does not claim the copyright on the abstracts in PubMed; however, journal publishers or authors may. NLM provides no legal advice concerning distribution of copyrighted materials, consult your legal counsel.

Text to describe PubMed:

PubMed is service of the National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.

Text and graphics links:

Feel free to use any of the text or graphics links below to assist in creating your links to us. You may paste any of the HTML below into your page.

• To link directly to PubMed, use the following HTML:
  
  <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed">PubMed</a>

• To open a link to PubMed in a new window, use the following HTML:
  
  <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed" target="newwindow">PubMed</a>

• PubMed has made several images available to be used to link to PubMed. Select the HTML beneath the image you want to use and include it in your page.
  
  

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    <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed"><IMG alt="PubMed Logo" SRC="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/gifs/iconsml.gif"></a>

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    <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed"><IMG alt="PubMed Logo" SRC="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/gifs/iconmed.gif"></a>

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    <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed"><IMG alt="PubMed Logo" SRC="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/gifs/iconlrg.gif"></a>

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    <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed"><IMG alt="PubMed Logo" SRC="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/gifs/pubmed-www-nlm.gif"></a>

Adding the PubMed search box to your site

• To place a PubMed search box on your own page and display results in the same window, use the following HTML:
  
  

  Search PubMed:   
  
  <form method="get" action="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi" target="_self">
  Search <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed">PubMed</a>: &nbsp;&nbsp;
  <input type="hidden" name="db" value="PubMed">
  <input name="term" size="45" type="TEXT" value="">
  <input type="submit" value="Go">
  </form>

• To place a PubMed search box on your own page and display results in a new window, use the following HTML:
  
  

  Search PubMed:   
  
  <form method="get" action="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi" target="new">
  Search <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed">PubMed</a>: &nbsp;&nbsp;
  <input type="hidden" name="db" value="PubMed">
  <input name="term" size="45" type="TEXT" value="">
  <input type="submit" value="Go">
  </form>

Special instructions for LinkOut providers

Add the following line to activate LinkOut icons, Outside Tool icons or MyNCBI Share selections in HTML:

• To active library LinkOut icons:
  <input type="hidden" name="holding" value="medlib">
  where "medlib" is the library's LinkOut user name.
  
• To active library Outside icons:
  <input type="hidden" name="otool" value="yourOtool">
  where "yourOtool" is the library's Outside Tool user name.
  
• To share selections in a My NCBI share account:
  <input type="hidden" name="myncbishare" value="medlib">
  where "medlib" is the library's My NCBI share account name.
  

Example:

<form method="get" action="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi" target="new">
Search <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&holding=medlib">PubMed</a>: &nbsp;&nbsp;
<input type="hidden" name="db" value="PubMed">
<input type="hidden" name="holding" value="medlib">
<input name="term" size="45" type="TEXT" value="">
<input type="submit" value="Go">
</form>

For additional information on activating library icons in PubMed see Activate Library Holdings.