PubMed History and Search Bar Updates

[Editor's note: These changes were implemented in PubMed on February 6, 2013.]

A Download history link will be added to the PubMed, MeSH and NLM Catalog Advanced page History feature (see Figure 1).

Figure 1: PubMed Advanced History with a "Download history" link.

Click the "Download history" link to generate your History entries in the file "history.csv." Please note that Microsoft® Excel® is typically unable to display or print more than a maximum of 1024 characters in a cell; therefore, users with long queries may want to open the CSV file with a text editor to display the complete searches.

The search bar will be updated to list up to the last four databases searched at the top of the pull-down database menu (see Figure 2). The alphabetic list with all the databases will also include the recently searched databases.

Figure 2: Modified NCBI database menu.