How to: Add PubMed to the search bar of Firefox 2.0 or IE7
Oooh…they make it so easy!
Some users may not know that both IE and Firefox have search bars built into them that are very adaptable. Almost any kind of web search can be added to these, but today we’ll look at adding an essential search tool for medical libraries: PubMed. Once this is added, you can search PubMed no matter what page is loaded in your browser. In other words, you won’t have to “go” to PubMed in order to search PubMed.
Add PubMed search to Firefox 2.0
Using Firefox 2.0, go to any PubMed page…like this one.
Click the drop-down arrow in the search bar
Select Add “PubMed Search”
Ta-da!
To switch back to any other search, just click the drop-down again.
Add PubMed search to Internet Explorer 7
Using Internet Explorer 7, go to any PubMed page…like this one.
From the search bar drop-down, select Add Search Providers > PubMed Search
Click the Add Provider button
Ta-da! Now you can choose PubMed as your engine for the search bar by selecting it from the drop-down.
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November 2nd, 2006 at 4:31 am
Just to voice the Opera way of adding search engines: Right-click in the search field in PubMed and select “Create search”. You can do this in almost any search-engine. Furthermore, you can assign a nick-name to every search engine you add. As in “pm” for PubMed, for example. To do a quick and dirty search in PubMed, you hit F8 to focus on the address-field in the browser, type “pm diabetes” and hit enter.
As a medical librarian, with the need of multiple lookups in every direction; e-journals, ISSNs, ISBNs, other references etc (you probalby know what I am talking about), I would be lost without my browser. The fewer keystrokes and mouse-moving to get to any given search-engine _results page_, the better.
Regards, -and your blog is a must-read treasure-chest.
Per
November 2nd, 2006 at 12:25 pm
Per Silve,
Thank you Thank you Thank you!!!
Now, when I am in our browser, I can highlite text or a PMID, right click and search with PubMed. WuHoo!
November 8th, 2006 at 4:03 am
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