New customization feature in PubMed

When we have searched PubMed we are used to seeing our results presented on 2 tabs: All and Reviews. The technology behind the Reviews tab is a filter. PubMed has now made it possible for you to analyse your results by selecting filters to apply to your search results.

To customise the filters click on the hammer and wrench icon beside the Reviews tab, you will then be prompt to login to your account at MyNCBI (formerly Cubby - accounts are free and easy to set up as you create your own ID and password). Once logged in you are taken to Filter Selections which is broken down into 4 tabs:

• Quick pick list - popular filters such as free full text, last 5 years. Select these by ticking the boxes
• Browse contains a large number of filters in 3 groupings: Linkout, Links, Properties
• Search - the ability to search for a filter by keyword in name or description
• My Selections - the filters you have chosen to apply

The listings within Browse are quite extensive:

• Linkout - options to link to resources provided by external organisations eg Molecular Biology Databases, Literature (includes ability to select by publisher such as Elsevier). As well as selecting to filter by these options you can also add an icon to records to facilitate their recognition in the results list
• Links - options to select records with links to other Entrez databases such as Genes, PubMed Central archive
• Properties - many of these are limit options.

You can set upto a maximum of 5 filters to be applied to your results.