The search parameters are passed via a POST in an XML format as specified below. The results are sorted in the order they are received from PubMed. Note: The "sort" query string parameter is ignored for PubMed search.
Once a search is conducted, recalling the same search to get the next page of results returns cached results and does not require a new search on PubMed.
<baseurl>/?class=pubmed&method=advancesearch&pgnum=1&pgsize=25<signature related and sess parameters>
pubmed
.advancesearch
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results in no references being returned.Value | Field |
---|---|
0 | Authors, Primary |
1 | Pub Year, descending |
2 | Pub Year, ascending |
3 | Ref ID |
4 | Ref Type |
5 | Title, Primary |
6 | Periodical, Full |
7 | Periodical, Abbreviated |
8 | Creation Date Time, descending |
9 | Last Modified Date Time, descending |
10 | (Used only for a Retrieve::quick method) Relevancy |
11 | (Used only for a Retrieve::dup method) Duplicate |
12 | Last Modified Date Time, ascending |
0
which is the RefWorks XML format (unformatted). NOTE: There can be more than one style
parameter passed to allow for getting multiple styles. Value | Description |
---|---|
<Output style ID> | ID of desired output style. See the OutputStyle class for IDs. |
0 | RefWorks XML format (unformatted). |
-1 | Reference IDs in XML format. |
-2 | RefWorks XML format with a modified <lv> element. This modified <lv> element contains <item> elements with the vendor information. For example, <lv> |
en
for English. Set to the first value in the HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE return by the browser or set to a value from Properties::languages method.html
. Value | Description |
---|---|
html | HTML |
text | UTF-8 text |
style
parameter) If true
, all references are returned as a bibliography list in the output style specified. If false
, each reference is separated into its own <reference>
element in the output style specified. Default is false
.Status Code | Description |
---|---|
200 | Success. |
400 | Bad request |
401 | Unauthorized request |
404 | No references found. |
Tue Jul 13 2010 | Added "language" parameter. | |
Tue Sep 22 2009 | Added "biblist" parameter and allow multiple "style" parameters. | |
Thu May 14 2009 | Modified Parameter element to have a "field" attribute which takes a two-letter tag. | |
Mon Apr 20 2009 | Added. |