Data Filters in PMC and PubMed

Data Filters in PMC and PubMed. NLM Tech Bull. 2018 Mar-Apr;(421):b8.

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Looking for journal articles with associated data sets? New search filters in in PubMed Central (PMC) and PubMed aim to increase the discoverability of articles and citations with associated data information.

PubMed Central
Users can now search on or append searches with filters to discover articles with specific types of associated data.

1. Use has suppdata[filter] to find articles with associated supplementary material.
2. Use has data avail[filter] to find articles that include a data availability or data accessibility statement.
3. Use has data citations[filter] to find articles that include data citation(s).

Alternatively, use has associated data[filter] to find all articles with any type of data section described above.

PubMed
Users can search on or append searches with data[filter] to find citations with related data links in either the Secondary Source ID field or the LinkOut – Other Literature Resources field (both located below the abstract). These data links may be to records in other NLM databases (e.g., GenBank) or external data repositories (e.g., figshare, Dryad).