Simple searches
The web site’s address is http://certif.nlm.nih.gov:8080/nlm/ (the “:8080” part is important) and it looks like this on a handheld computer:
Customised NLM web site on a Palm-compatible handheld computer with Web Browser Pro
The Spartan interface provides you with space to enter your PubMed search term. Any search term you are used to entering on the main PubMed web site also works here.
PubMed web site on a Palm-compatible handheld computer with Web Browser Pro
For example, to search for papers on handheld computers, you can type in computers, handhelds[mesh], which uses the appropriate Medical Subject Heading (with the suffix [mesh]).
PubMed search for the term "computers, handhelds[mesh]" on a Palm-compatible handheld computer with Web Browser Pro
At the time of writing, there were 137 papers under this category.
PubMed search results from the term "computers, handhelds[mesh]" on a Palm-compatible handheld computer with Web Browser Pro
As you’d expect from the normal web version of PubMed, tapping on the title of any of the papers brings up its abstract. For example the 19th paper is from the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ). It is interesting for two reasons: its title (“The Perils of PDAs”) and its journal. The screen showing the abstract is below:
Abstract of 19th result from the term "computers, handhelds[mesh]" on a Palm-compatible handheld computer with Web Browser Pro
As you can see it includes a button for the full article. The CMAJ is an open access journal, meaning that all its papers are freely available for reading on the web. Tapping the button shows the article, which recounts the author’s PDA perils.
Full paper of 19th result from the term "computers, handhelds[mesh]" on a Palm-compatible handheld computer with Web Browser Pro
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