o help users more easily identify the journal in their PubMed results, a mouseover of the MEDLINE journal abbreviation will display the full journal name (see Figure 1). The mouseover feature will be available for the Summary, Abstract and Citation displays for most Web browsers.

[Editor's Note: This feature was implemented in PubMed on February 1, 2005.]

 

Additional journal information is available from the Entrez Journals and NLM Catalog databases.

By Kathi Canese
National Center for Biotechnology Information

Canese K. Full Journal Name Option for PubMed® Retrieval. NLM Tech Bull. 2005 Jan-Feb;(342):e6.