PubMed, a service of the US National Library of Medicine, has announced that the PubMed Abstract display for PubMed Central articles will now be enhanced to include an image strip generated from the soon-to-be-released National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Images database.
The image strip will display thumbnails of the article's first several images. It will also include a 'See all images' link to display all the article's images in the Images databases, as well as a free text link to the article. Right and left arrows on each end of the strip will allow users to rotate through the images. Mousing over an image in the image strip will generate a preview display of the image with its figure caption.
The Images database will allow users to search millions of scientific images from NCBI full text resources. The database initially includes images from PubMed Central.
Users can search the Images database with terms or detailed search parameters, such as image height, width, and caption. The complete list of search fields is available from the Images Advanced search page. Image results initially display in a summary format, but may also be viewed in a thumbnail display. Retrieval display order is based on a relevancy algorithm.
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