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LinkOut

  • Links to full text resources from PubMed are available through a service called LinkOut.
  • When you click on LinkOut icons or links in the LinkOut display in PubMed, you leave PubMed and are directed to the full text at an external site.
  • The National Library of Medicine does not hold the copyright to this material, and cannot give permission for its use. Users should review all copyright restrictions set forth by the full text provider before reproducing, redistributing, or making commercial use of material accessed through LinkOut.

To see the full list of web-accessible online resources for an item, select LinkOut from the Links pull-down menu. [Show Me]

View the Abstract or Citation display formats to see if there is an icon link to full-text.

  • The LinkOut format displays (if available) by broad categories (e.g., Full Text Sources) with icons representing certain attributes.

  • Click on the hyperlinked word, icon, to see a legend of the icons. [Show Me]

  • Click on the Libraries link to select a LinkOut participating library to display their electronic or print subscriptions for the citation. [Show Me]

LinkOut subsets

  • Citations that include a link to a free full-text article: free full text[sb] [Show Me]

  • Citations that include a link to a full-text article: full text[sb]

Use Limits to easily select these LinkOut subsets.

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Last reviewed: 28 April 2009
Last updated: 10 October 2008
First published: 20 March 2001
Metadata| Permanence level: Permanent: Dynamic Content