yvp:
Direct your browser to a paper by typing just the
Year, Volume and Page!

usage: yvp [year] [volume] [page]
       or 
       yvp        [volume] [page]
       or 
       yvp [year] [volume] [page] [another key]

Find an article with given year/volume/page in PubMed by setting your mozilla-type browser to it.

Example:
Typing:

yvp 1986 188 415

on the Unix command line generates the following URL and sends my browser to it: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?orig_db=PubMed&db=PubMed&cmd=Search&term=188%5Bvolume%5D%20AND%20415%5Bpage%5D%20AND%201986%5Bpdat%5D

This is amazingly effective! Often it picks out the exact reference. When there are several, it's never more than 3 to 5 and the one one wants is obvious because the others are generally about a completely different subject.

If for some reason you cannot get your browser to go to the page, the last line given by yvp is the URL. You can capture it with:

   yvp $year $volume $page | tail -1

and put it into an html page you generate. Book mark that page and you can click through to the PubMed entry.

Requirements:

yvp - the yvp script - put it in a directory with other scripts, make your path go through that directory.
browserurl - a script that launches a browser to a particular page
yvph - a script that calls yvp and makes an html page with a link you can click on
yvpa - a script that calls yvph to put the html into your 'a' directory for automatic transfer to another computer.

Schneider Lab
origin: 2007 Nov 01
updated: 2008 Jun 27

yvp: Direct your browser to a paper by typing just the Year, Volume and Page!

yvp:
Direct your browser to a paper by typing just the
Year, Volume and Page!