(28 Sep 2026) The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has launched Linked Discoveries, an experimental tool designed to help researchers better understand how individual scientific findings connect to the broader body of biomedical evidence. The platform allows users to explore networks of related publications directly from articles indexed in PubMed, including studies that replicate or build…
(1 Dec 2025) AI search tools like Elicit, Consensus, and Scite.ai have spent years racing to build centralised indexes of academic content— first by indexing the open content that is available and then trying to get publisher partnerships. But unlike their predecessors of the 2010s – the Web Scale Discovery systems (now called “Discovery layers” or “Discovery Services”) like Summon, Ebsco Discovery Service, Primo,…
(14 May 2025) On May 2, the German National Library of Medicine (ZB MED), announced they were planning to develop an “open, reliable, and sustainable” alternative to PubMed. The big vision is to move past the reliance on any single country’s investment in this core life sciences infrastructure: It’s not to have a duplicative, parallel structure…
A brief outage has focused attention on scientists’ reliance on the US-government-funded website. (4 Mar 2025) A temporary outage of the US-government-funded PubMed database of biomedical literature over the weekend sent many researchers globally into a panic. Although the disruption does not seem to have been deliberate, and the service has since been restored,…
(19 Dec 2019) In March 2019, NLM announced that the three existing LinkOut services (LinkOut via Submission Utility, LinkOut Local, and Outside Tool) are being consolidated into one program, Library LinkOut using Outside Tool (see LinkOut Consolidation Announcement and Library LinkOut Transition FAQs for more information). As of February 28, 2020, LinkOut via Submission Utility and LinkOut Local services…
(18 Nov 2019) An updated version of PubMed is now available at https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/. The new PubMed will become the default in spring 2020 and will ultimately replace the legacy version. The new responsive layout offers better support for accessing PubMed content with the increasingly popular small-screen devices such as mobile phones and tablets, among other features.…
(19 Aug 2019) NCBI released a video, presenting highlights the main features you can expect in the new PubMed, including those already available in PubMed Labs. A timeline is included, as is some background on the new PubMed development process. Watch the video on youtube here.