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ASBMB Today, June 2002 [Early this year, ASBMB Today introduced the new "portal" site from Stanford's HighWire Press, which allows you to search all of Medline plus over 330 journals' full-text at once -- including the JBC, MCP, JLR and BAMBED, of course! This article is fifth in a monthly series highlighting tools or features of this new site for researchers' sore eyes. The new site is at http://highwire.stanford.edu ] One of the most frequent tasks the designers of the new HighWire Portal saw researchers doing was also the most obvious one: looking up an article based on a reference citation. The design of the new HighWire site makes this as fast as it can possibly be: you type three numbers and click. If you have the publication year, the volume, and the first page for any article in the 4,500 journals covered by Medline and HighWire's full-text journals (which includes JBC, MCP, JLR, BAMBED and hundreds of others), you can retrieve an article. You don't even have to type the journal name, and you don't have to first click your way to the journal's own online site. The result when you enter those three numbers will be a full article citation, accompanied by a link to the abstract and - in most cases for recent articles - a link to the full-text. For HighWire-hosted journals, the citation will also show if you have access to the full-text, and if not, whether and for what fee you can purchase the full-text. Since over 420,000 full-text articles are free at the HighWire site, there is a good chance you'll have full-text access. From the HighWire Portal home page at http://highwire.stanford.edu just enter the year, volume and page in the search entry boxes in the center of the home page - no need to enter author or any other text. (See Quick Search at top center of the home page shown here.) If your article is in one of the 330+ HighWire-hosted journals, click on the appropriate radio button below the year; if not or if you don't know whether the journal is a HighWire-hosted journal, just click on the "HighWire + Medline" radio button:
You might wonder why you don't have to give a journal name. In most cases, the year, volume and first page information is enough to limit a search result - even in twelve million entries! - to just 1-5 possible citations. So the search result you will see when you type in those three numbers will be small enough that you can pick out the right article much faster than you could type in a journal name or go to a journal's home page to search. In fact, if you don't have all three of the numbers - perhaps a citation you were given wasn't complete - typing even two of them will typically get you a result that is just a page or two of search results to scan.
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