Linking to a PubMed Search

Today, I had a lengthy chat session at the reference desk with a woman who was trying to provide links to a faculty member’s latest publications on his or her webpage, but couldn’t remember how it was done. Well, I had never known how it was done, and other’s couldn’t remember so I thought I would post the reminder here.

To get a url for a search in PubMed, you first perform your search place all the limits on the results. Then you choose the details tab under the search box. Next, you click the “URL” button to the right of the Search button under the box that contains the search string. The results will reappear, but the address bar of the browser will have changed to contain the search string in the URL.

You might like to watch a video of me going through the steps.