AbstractPlus Display Format
PubMed default display for single citations has officially changed from Abstract to AbstractPlus. Search results for a single citation will also display in the AbstractPlus format. Searches that retrieve multiple results still default display to the Summary format.
AbstractPlus is an enhanced Abstract view that shows the first five Related Articles for each PubMed citation.
Of course the LinkOut icons are displayed at the bottom of the whole citation. Poor planning. I have heard from many librarians who are irritated by this location choice. The LinkOut icon should be at the top similar to how the old Abstract display featured them. Why on earth NLM would change the location is besides me, but I think they should really change this ASAP.
Other than the LinkOut icons on the bottom of the citation, I rather like the look and feel of the AbstractPlus display.
For additional information see: Change the Display Format of Single Citations with My NCBI PubMed User Preferences. NLM Tech Bull. 2006 Jul-Aug;(351):e2.
1 Comments:
I agree that it is a big problem having our linkout icons down at the bottom and the publishers' icons at the top. We recently did some usability testing and found most of our users already click on the publisher icon most often. Probably because they are furthest left in the Abstract display. But at least if that didn't work, they could then turn to our linkout links and our link resolver. Now...all the way at the bottom they sometimes fall right off the screen!
For now, we've opted to add the &dr=abstract phrase to our PubMed URL but I hope that it's only temporary and that NLM works with us on this.
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