Using the "Profi Line" element to search for known citations.

The Profiline element has evolved evolutionary from this most primitive item, which is intrinsically self-explanatory. Type 21193640 into the box and press the green Search PubMed bar: The "Common Linkout Box" opens.

Typically, you have full citations from the articles reference section or somewhat cryptogenic short forms from your congress notes like "pnas 108 903 . In PubMed, you would run a search like Proc-Natl-Acad-Sci-U-S-A[JOUR] AND 108[VOL] AND 903[PAGE],which is a quite stupid task if you have a lot of citations. So, I decided to solve two problems: minimizing typing by applying the 1 letter system for journal abbreviations and generating the linkout in accordance with the general outline of my medline system.

This pretty item does it all, and it gives you inputboxes for the 1 letter journal code (only the first 3 are needed !!!!), volume and first page. So, your task is to type in: pna first box 108 second 903 third &press the green button. Your assumption that the Common Linkout Box would open is: false. Instead, there apperars a linklist to a couple of journals who have all in common the same one letter code. Click on that of the Proc Natl... -> OK, the linkout box opens.

This Version from June 25th 2012 is the best I have ever created: You have not to click to the 3 input boxes: you simply type in one line of 'citation'. Try a PMID search: Type 21193640 into the box and press the blue box called PMID - works. Now, you can do something more complex: pna 128 903 and press the blue box called "*1* VOL PAGE". It is essential to have spacers between, maximum 3 letters for the journal. Alternatively, the scheme pna 2011 patel works well - use the blue box called "*1* YEAR AUTHOR". Author is one of the authors, preferably one with a more specific name than smith-j. If things dont work, you can try to catch it by entering 'what you want' and pressing the box without a name.

If you are performing the task of getting papers from a printed citation list of my medline system, you will get the highest performance if you simply type in the pmid number, and linkout to the ultimate PDF by some pathway proposed by the common linkout box. You will get all free stuff and, depending on your libraries holdings, what you can get with this resource. Often, PubMed has no linkout boxes to the article on the publishers site; whereas the hybrids are covered well, those journals which are completely unfree are underrepresented in my database (1 letter works, but i have not set up the about 6000 journal homepages yet). If it should happen that you have no online access to your article, you can print out the abstract and go copying in the familiar way.

Writing 'notes' to drain PDFs onto USB

I have no home-based access to my lib and I am 50 miles away from my "magic-usb", and I had not created a solution to this problem yet, so I made it today: Two inputboxes, now the uppermost 'Profi Line', the other PMID are designed so that you type in the PMID/UID (or anything else) into the latter and the linkadress (from browserline) of the page which contains the link to the PDF. You can proceed until you arrive at the PDF link. Sometimes, really, it opens, then you will printout directly, typicalliy, you see a black wall, a purchase 30$ page... . Now, if you obtain the typical result of PAY, copy the last proximal link to the document into - the b'Profi Line'. Close the Tab of the journals archive and copypaste the PMID number from the 'common linkout box' into the field calle 'PMID'. Press the blue 'Memorize it' buttonto secure data. Data is stored within the php page of my medline system, not in a cookie or on my host. If you have finished your session, i.e. if you have accumulated about 14 links like that, you have to SAVE THE WEBPAGE ONTO YOUR USB STICK under a random name.htm to later open this page in your library on their browser. (The program informs you; when saved, click the message which informed you to clear the page for the next items). If you have less then 14 links, save the page in an analogous way.

In the library, you click one link after the other and you will drain the pdfs to your usb stick - remember, I proposed not to use generic names but PMID numbers to put them into order (sometimes errors will be occur so you have PMIDs in case of broken links, and for convenience, Pubmed links, too). If you should accumulate a multitude of pages, save (browser function 'save page as) them under different names with intrinsic counts, e.g. kidney999.htm, kidney998.htm and so on to avoid trouble.

Meanwhile, I have put some Java into work so you will open about 15 PDFlinks in your library at one time. I think its efficient. They open if you press the ligth blue button 'You can open all 14 links...'.

Ideal setup:

- The profiline element (this) in FIREFOX, shrink page manually to 30% screen width and locate it to the right screen.

- The PMID-to-common linkout box converter should run in OPERA, alternatively, in an alternative Window (not tab) of FIREFOX and be shrunken to 60% of screen width at the left screen.

So, the copypasting actions will proceed with the least effort !

The PubMed Number is located exactly for this purpose in the 'common linkout box' right to the big blue button which opens the metaengines.

I have drained 1440 items in 12 hours in library with a less elaborate version; of course, much was done at home, sure... Had I done the task without this very simple ressource, I had to drive 3 times instead of one. Anybody out there who prefers driving 400 km for nothing instead of using my sophisticated technology ?