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News Highlights


September
My NCBI Redesign - 2008 September 25
Summary Ads - 2008 September 08
August
Drug Sensor - 2008 August 15
PMID to PMC ID Converter - 2008 August 12
July
Automatic Term Mapping Modified - 2008 July 02
June
PubMed Subsets Revised - 2008 June 27
Title Sort - 2008 June 27
May
Boost for PubMed Search Results: New ATM and Citation Sensor Introduced - 2008 May 27
NCBI Beta Version of Advanced Search Available - 2008 May 16
Related Reviews Coming to AbstractPlus in PubMed - 2008 May 06
April
New Look for PubMed Search Results Page - 2008 April 14
My NCBI Collections - 2008 April 03
March
NLM's List of Serials Indexed for Online Users and List of Journals Indexed for MEDLINE Now Available - 2008 March 10
Collaborators Included in MEDLINE/PubMed - 2008 March 10
E-mail Notification of Major System Problems - 2008 March 10
February
Debut of a new design for the NLM Gateway - 2008 February 19

My NCBI Redesign - 2008 September 25
A redesigned version of My NCBI was released. See the NLM Technical Bulletin article for more details.

Summary Ads - 2008 September 08
Read about the new resources added to the PubMed Summary results display in the NLM Technical Bulletin article PubMed Discovery Objective Expands to Search Results Screen.

Drug Sensor - 2008 August 15
See the NLM Technical Bulletin article Drug Sensor Added to PubMed Results Page.

PMID to PMC ID Converter - 2008 August 12
Use the PMID to PMC ID Converter to translate one type of ID to the other.

Automatic Term Mapping Modified - 2008 July 02
See the NLM Technical Bulletin article describing how PubMed's Automatic Term Mapping was modified.

PubMed Subsets Revised - 2008 June 27
See the NLM Technical Bulletin article listing the revised PubMed subsets.

Title Sort - 2008 June 17
See the NLM Technical Bulletin article that discusses the new Title sort option added to the PubMed Sort By menu.

Boost for PubMed Search Results: New ATM and Citation Sensor Introduced - 2008 May 27
PubMed’s Automatic Term Mapping (ATM) has been modified and a new feature, Citation Sensor, is released to catch citation searches.
URL: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj08/mj08_pubmed_atm_cite_sensor.html

NCBI Beta Version of Advanced Search Available - 2008 May 16
The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is developing an Advanced Search option for PubMed®. A beta version (which may undergo changes) has been released for users to try. Look for the link next to the search box buttons.
URL: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj08/mj08_advanced_search.html

Related Reviews Coming to AbstractPlus in PubMed - 2008 May 06
AbstractPlus is PubMed's dynamic, discovery display format that leads searchers to other information resources. The latest feature to be added is Related Reviews links from the set of Related Articles to review articles, i.e., articles that have been indexed with the Publication Type, Review. URL: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj08/mj08_related_reviews.html

New Look for PubMed Search Results Page - 2008 April 14
The blue sidebar has been removed from the Summary results to provide space for forthcoming features. URL: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma08/ma08_pubmed_sidebar.html

My NCBI Collections - 2008 April 03
My NCBI Collections is now available as a selection under the PubMed results Send to menu. Please see the NLM Technical Bulletin article on this change at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma08/ma08_my_ncbi_collections.html

NLM's List of Serials Indexed for Online Users and List of Journals Indexed for MEDLINE Now Available - 2008 March 10
Please see the NLM Technical Bulletin, NLM's List of Serials Indexed for Online Users 2008 and List of Journals Indexed for MEDLINE 2008 Now Available, at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma08/ma08_lji_lsi.html.

Collaborators Included in MEDLINE/PubMed - 2008 March 10
Study Collaborators Included in MEDLINE/PubMed - March 10, 2008. Please see the NLM Technical Bulletin article on this new data at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma08/ma08_collaborators.html.

PubMed Alerts: E-mail Notification of Major System Problems - 2008 March 10
Please see the NLM Technical Bulletin article about the new e-mail notification service at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma08/ma08_pubmed_alerts.html.

Debut of a new design for the NLM Gateway - 2008 February 19
Last week, a redesigned version of Gateway was made available to the public via a link on the Gateway home page. Please see the NLM Technical Bulletin article which discusses this at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf08/jf08_gateway_redesign.html.

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PubMed Update


Chart last updated: January 26, 2009

Data Total Records Dates Covered Indexed Records Added Date Added
PubMed 18,607,652 1949-present    
MEDLINE 17,141,889 1966-present 10,523 2009/01/19-2009/01/23
In Process 275,461      
OLDMEDLINE 409,526 1948-1965 69,731 2008/10/27-2008/10/31

MEDLINE is generally updated each day, Tuesday-Saturday, with indexed citations. PubMed includes in-process citations which are added Tuesday - Saturday. These records are tagged [PubMed - in process]. Citations received electronically from publishers are tagged [PubMed -as supplied by publisher].



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Gateway Update


Chart last updated: November 3, 2008

Category Collection Total Records Records Added Date Updated
Meeting Abstracts Meeting Abstracts 102,683 2,930 2007/09/27
Other Collections HSRProj 7,747 449 2008/10/23

On October 23, 2008 449 new records were added to HSRproj.

On September 27, 2007 we added to Meeting Abstracts:
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Last reviewed: 26 January 2009
Last updated: 26 January 2009
First published: 08 January 2001
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