NAME WWW::Search::NCBI::PubMed - fetch bibliographic entries in NLM's PubMed database KEYWORDS internet, searching, content retrieval, PubMed, MEDLINE, NCBI, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, NLM. DESCRIPTION PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's search service that provides access to over 11 million citations in MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE, and other related databases, with links to participating online journals. This module is an interface to access this service via the generic "WWW::Search" interface. This class exports no public interface; all interaction should be done through WWW::Search objects. SYNOPSIS use WWW::Search; my $www_search = new WWW::Search('NCBI::PubMed'); $www_search->maximum_to_retrieve( 10 ); $www_search->native_query( my $query_pubmed = 'stress AND cardiovascular risk' ); while ( my $r = $www_search->next_result ) { print "$_\n" for ( $r->url, $r->title, $r->description ); } INSTALLATION To install this module type the following: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install DEPENDENCIES Please study the PREREQ_PM field within this distributions Makefile.PL file. NCBI DISCLAIMER AND COPYRIGHT I personally encourage everybody to read before using the service via this module. Because using it is like surfing the original pages i am sure all legal consequences that refer to the website are inherited by this tool. Please read http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/About/disclaimer.html. BUGS AND CAVEATS While this tool tries to present the original information in its essence via extracting interesting information, it may fail to do so. So do not rely on the information retreived by this tool without rigorous confirmation of the original sources (http://www.pubmed.com website or original print journal articles). Because the parser depends on the static webserver response it may brake as soon as the html is significantly altered. Please inform the author via http://rt.cpan.org if this happens and subject all other reports there. Escpecially I am open to every improvement towards robust parsing. AUTHOR muenalan@cpan.org . "WWW::Search::NCBI::PubMed" was inspired by the outdated "WWW::Search::PubMed" (last updated 2000). "WWW::Search::PubMed" was written by Jim Smyser . COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS This module is Copyright (c) 1994-2003 Murat Uenana. Germany. All rights reserved. You may distribute under the terms of either the GNU General Public License or the Artistic License, as specified in the Perl README file. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.