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7 <h1>Fetching Medline entries</h1>
9 <p>To use this feature, choose <b>Search -> Web search</b>, and the
10 search interface will appear in the side pane. Select <b>Medline</b> in the dropdown menu.</p>
12 <p>MEDLINE is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's premier
13 bibliographic database. It contains references to journal
14 articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine.</p>
16 <p>There are two ways of specifying which entries to
20 <li>Enter one or more Medline IDs (separated by
21 comma/semicolon) in the text field.</li>
23 <li>Enter a set of names and/or words to search for. You
24 can use the operators <em>and</em> and <em>or</em> and
25 parentheses to refine your search expression. See
26 <a href="http://www.ovid.com/site/products/ovidguide/medline.htm">Medline/OVID operators</a>
27 for full description.</li>
31 <li>May [au] AND Anderson [au]</li>
32 <li> Anderson RM [au] HIV [ti] </li>
33 <li> Valleron [au] 1988:2000[dp] HIV [ti]</li>
34 <li> Valleron [au] AND 1987:2000[dp] AND (AIDS [ti] OR HIV[ti])</li>
35 <li> Anderson [au] AND Nature [ta]</li>
36 <li>Population [ta] </li>
39 </ol>In both cases, press <b>Enter</b> or the <b>Fetch</b>
40 button. If you use a text search, you will be prompted with the
41 number of entries found, and given a choice of how many to
44 <p>The entries fetched will be added to your currently active
47 <h2>Using a Proxy Server</h2>
49 <p>If you need to use an http proxy
50 server, pass the server name and port number to java at
53 <p><code>java -Dhttp.proxyHost="hostname"
54 -Dhttp.proxyPort="portnumber"</code></p>
56 <p>These environment settings are documented in the
57 <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/guide/net/properties.html">Oracle J2SE documentation</a>.</p>