Enabling the PubMed External Lookup

External origins send one of two possible meta tags in OpenURLs that can be resolved by PubMed's Efetch external lookup service:

  • "pmid=PMIDVALUE"
  • "id=pmid:PMIDVALUE"

To use the PubMed External Lookup service, enable the WebBridge resolution server for both meta tags. Perform both of the following procedures:

Enabling PubMed External Lookup for OpenURLs Containing "pmid="

  1. Create a field selector for the "pmid" meta tag in the OpenURL from the external origin.
  2. Create an external lookup.
  3. Configure external origins that send OpenURLs containing "pmid=PMIDVALUE". Choose PubMedID in the Do external lookup drop-down menu when configuring these external origins.
  4. Edit the pubmed.xml mapping file, if necessary.

    The pubmed.xml maps the response from the external lookup server back to an OpenURL.

    The default file is provided with WebBridge in WebPAC's live directory. If the external lookup service makes changes to their response, or if your library has special needs with regard to mapping the response to an OpenURL, you can edit the pubmed.xml file.
    NOTE

    XML files can be edited in text editors. Innovative does not provide support for editing XML files.

Enabling PubMed External Lookup for OpenURLs Containing "id=pmid:PMIDVALUE"

  1. Create a field selector for the "id=pmid:PMIDVALUE" meta tag in the OpenURL from the external origin.
  2. Create an external lookup.
  3. Configure external origins that send OpenURLs containing "id=pmid:PMIDVALUE". Choose PubMedID2 in the Do external lookup drop-down menu when configuring these external origins.
  4. Edit the pubmed.xml mapping file, if necessary.

    The pubmed.xml maps the response from the external lookup server back to an OpenURL.

    The default file is provided with WebBridge. If the external lookup service makes changes to their response, or if your library has special needs with regard to mapping the response to an OpenURL, you can edit the pubmed.xml file.
    NOTE

    XML files can be edited in text editors. Innovative does not provide support for editing XML files.