PubMed Publications Feed

Owned by Zachary Restifo
Mar 09, 2021
3 min read

Some organizations and labs will want to list recent publications. Tridion has a PubMed component that automatically updates publications onto your page by pulling in information from PubMed.

  • Using the PubMed component eliminates the hassle of having to continuously update your publications page and writing citations.

The following instructions provide information on adding a PubMed Publications Feed to a page via Tridion.

 

Table of Contents

 

 

Creating the PubMed Component

Before adding the feed of publications to your page, you have to create a PubMed component.

Click New Component (blue) to begin creating an PubMed component.

 

In the Building Blocks folder of your respective website, click New Component (highlighted in blue above) in the Create tab (highlighted in yellow above) of the navigation bar.

You will be taken to a new page for creating the component (shown below):

 

Creating a Pubmed component.

 

  1. Enter an appropriate Name for your component.

  2. Choose PubMed Feed from the Schema drop down menu (highlighted in yellow above).

  3. Enter the Title you want to appear at the top of the feed on your page.

  4. Query: Click on the link to PubMed (highlighted in blue above). A PubMed window will appear.

    • In the Builder section, add search terms that are particular to your organization.

    • Make sure you select the correct field from the drop down menu.

    • Using the correct author names and also entering Yale as as an "All Fields" search will produce an accurate list.

  5. Click Search to view the publications that appear.

    • There is a possibility that your search list will include publications that are not related to your organization.

    • If you need assistance in limiting the search, please do not hesitate to contact the Office of Communications and we will work with you to create more precise search terms.

  6. At the top of the search results window, you will see a field that includes all of the search terms you entered. Copy all of the search terms in this field.

  7. Exit the PubMed window.

  8. Once you're back in the component, past these search terms into the Query field (highlighted in yellow below).

  9. Maximum Results: If you entered precise search terms, you will not have to use this field.

  10. Group by Year: Select true or false to indicate whether you want the publications in the feed to be organized by Year.

  11. Save and Close the component (highlighted in blue below).

 

Finishing the component with the PubMed Query search terms.

 

Once you have saved and closed your component, you are ready to add the PubMed feed to a page.

 

Adding the PubMed Feed Component to a Page

After creating the PubMed Feed component, you can add the component to a page.

  1. Navigate in the Root folder to the page you'd like to add a PubMed Feed to and double-click to open the page.

  2. In the window that opens, click the Component Presentations tab.

  3. Click Insert at the bottom left of the page window.

  4. Browse to the PubMed Feed component you created and click to select it.

  5. From the Component Template dropdown, select the PubMed Feed template.

  6. Click the Insert button at the bottom right, then the Close button.

  7. Save and Close the page, then you are ready to publish.

 

Example of a PubMed Feed on a Page

The screenshot below shows an example of a PubMed Publications Feed as it appears on a page.

A PubMed Publications Feed on a page, grouped by Year.