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. 2017 Oct 30:6:e28801.
doi: 10.7554/eLife.28801.

Towards PubMed 2.0

Nicolas Fiorini  1 , David J Lipman  1 , Zhiyong Lu  1
Affiliations

Towards PubMed 2.0

Nicolas Fiorini et al. Elife. .

Abstract

Staff from the National Center for Biotechnology Information in the US describe recent improvements to the PubMed search engine and outline plans for the future, including a new experimental site called PubMed Labs.

Keywords: PubMed; biomedical literature search; biomedical text mining; scientific publishing.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that no competing interests exist.

Figures

Figure 1.
Figure 1.. Relevance search in PubMed.
(Left) System overview for the Best Match sort option in PubMed. (Right) Users are encouraged to try the Best Match sort option when PubMed detects a query for which the Best Match sort option could yield better results.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.. PubMed Labs: interface and features.
The PubMed Labs interface on a small-screen device (left) and a desktop device (right). The default sort option in PubMed Labs is the Best Match sort option, but it is also possible to sort by date order. Each search result in PubMed Labs has search terms highlighted in the title and/or newly generated snippets, which are automatically extracted from the sentence(s) in the abstract with matching search terms. Other differences in the new interface are also highlighted.
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