NCBI and NLM have launched AbstractPlus on PubMed. The look is a little cleaner and fresher. Perhaps the rest of the PubMed site will evolve to this new look (who knows, pure speculation on my part). Dean Giustini did a sample search on his blog, just click on the Display pulldown box and highlight AbstractPlus.

There are already some comments from some medical librarians floating around Medlib-l, so far the main concern seems to be over the location of the publisher and library full text icons. The publisher icon is on the right side of the citation and the library icon is at the very bottom of the citation, below the abstract. I have to agree with the other librarians on Medlib-l, this is a bad arrangement. The library icons should be "above the fold" as the newspaper industry says. It should not be lost below the abstract. I think it would be nice if it was located just left of the publisher's icon. That way users get the idea that you want to go the library's access before you try the publisher.

As with all new designs things take a little tweaking to get right, hopefully those in charge will take note.

Any other critiques or design changes you see that need some changing?