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8 <h1>Fetching Medline entries</h1>
10 <p>MEDLINE is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's premier
11 bibliographic database. It contains references to journal
12 articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine.</p>
14 <p>JabRef can download citations from the Medline database. To
15 use this feature, choose <b>Web search -> Fetch Medline</b>,
16 and the Medline interface will appear in the side pane.</p>
18 <p>There are two ways of specifying which entries to
22 <li>Enter one or more Medline IDs (separated by
23 comma/semicolon) in the text field.</li>
25 <li>Enter a set of names and/or words to search for. You
26 can use the operators <em>and</em> and <em>or</em> and
27 parentheses to refine your search expression.</li>
28 </ol>In both cases, press <b>Enter</b> or the <b>Fetch</b>
29 button. If you use a text search, you will be prompted with the
30 number of entries found, and given a choice of how many to
33 <p>The entries fetched will be added to your currently active
36 <h2>Using a Proxy Server</h2>
38 <p>If you need to use an http proxy
39 server, pass the server name and port number to java at
40 runtime. These environment settings are documented at<br>
41 <a href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/net/properties.html">http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/net/properties.html</a></p>
43 <p><code>java -Dhttp.proxyHost="hostname"
44 -Dhttp.proxyPort="portnumber"</code></p>