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Dragonfly

Spring - Summer 2002 -- Volume 33, Number 2

Linking Your Web Site to MEDLINEplus

Note from your RML: If you already link to MEDLINEplus from your Web site, or decide to link because of this article, please let us know. Tell us if you have received any feedback about the link.

Does your institution's web site need consumer health information? If it does, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) invites you to link from your web site to MEDLINEplus at http://medlineplus.gov/. MEDLINEplus brings together, by health topic, authoritative information from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), other government, non-profit and other health-related organizations. Preformulated MEDLINE searches are included in MEDLINEplus and give easy access to the medical research literature. It also provides a database of full-text drug information, interactive health tutorials and an illustrated medical encyclopedia.

Advantages of linking to MEDLINEplus include:

What's the best way to link to MEDLINEplus? You are welcome to link to MEDLINEplus or any of the over 500 health topic pages, either directly or by opening a new window. The advantage of opening a new window is that your users still have a browser window with your web site available. One proviso, because of arrangements with licensed content providers please do not place any pages in a frame. Here are some images and text to assist you in coding your HTML link to MEDLINEplus. Be sure to observe the form of the MEDLINEplus name, which should always begin with "MEDLINE" in capital letters and "plus" in lower-case letters.

To point to MEDLINEplus, the code is:

<a href=http://medlineplus.gov/>MEDLINEplus</A>

To point users to MEDLINEplus and open the results in a new window, the code is:

<a href="http://medlineplus.gov/" target="medlinepluswindow">MEDLINEplus</a>

To put the MEDLINEplus search box on your own page, the code is:

<form method="post" action="http://www.nlm.nih.gov/cgi/medlineplus/search2.pl"> Search <a href="http://medlineplus.gov/">MEDLINEplus</a>: &nbsp;&nbsp; <input type="text" name="words" size="20" maxlength="60"> <input type="hidden" name="config" value="medplus_fuzzy"> <input type="hidden" name="method" value="and"> <input type="hidden" name="format" value="builtin-short"> <input type="hidden" name="restrict" value=""> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Go"> </form>

To put the MEDLINEplus search box on your own page and open the results in a new window, the code is:

<form method="post" action="http://www.nlm.nih.gov/cgi/medlineplus/search2.pl" target="resultwindow"> Search <a href="http://medlineplus.gov/">MEDLINEplus</a>: &nbsp;&nbsp; <input type="text" name="words" size="20" maxlength="60"> <input type="hidden" name="config" value="medplus_fuzzy"> <input type="hidden" name="method" value="and"> <input type="hidden" name="format" value="builtin-short"> <input type="hidden" name="restrict" value=""> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Go"> </form>

We hope this information will be useful. Additional text to describe MEDLINEplus and graphics are available from the Linking to MEDLINEplus page at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/linking.html.

Dragonfly, Spring - Summer 2002 - Volume 33, Number 2
(posted on PNRNews on April 29, 2002)

This publication is funded in whole with Federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, under Contract No. N01-LM-1-3516.

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