Major Features of MMBR Online

CiteTrack		Track the topics, authors and articles important to you
eTOCs		Be notified via email when new content goes online
Pay for Access		Access a single article
Cross-Journal Searching		Search across multiple journals
Searching Medline		Medline search service
Exporting Citations		Acquire article citations in the Medlars format
Viewing Figures		View the 3 versions of figures online
Printing		HTML and PDF versions of most articles are available
Browsing		View the contents of MMBR Online
Searching		Search the contents of MMBR Online

CiteTrack

CiteTrack will immediately alert you by email whenever new content in MMBR Online or a participating journal is published that matches criteria based on the topics, authors and articles you want to track. Sign up now!

eTOCs

Be notified immediately via email when new content goes online. Sign up now for FREE!

Pay for Access

You can purchase access to individual MMBR Online articles. Browse through the available online content and select the article you want access to. When you are prompted to sign in, select the "Pay per Article" option.

Cross-Journal Searching

MMBR Online lets you search across multiple journals.

After performing a search in MMBR Online, you can perform the same search in other journals through the "pulldown menu" at the top of the search result page entitled "Try this search in:..." Selecting a journal title and clicking the "Search" button will start a search using the previously specified criteria in the selected journal.

Alternatively, you can return to the search page and click the 'Search multiple journals' link. You will go to a page where you can perform one search which will be applied to multiple online journals in a single step.

Searching Medline

You may search Medline at NCBI.

Exporting Citations

We provide a simple and direct method of acquiring article citations in the Medlars format compatible with import into personal bibliographic management software such as EndNote, Reference Manager, or ProCite.

To export citations with Abstracts for any MMBR Online article to a citation manager program, the following steps are suggested:

1. View the abstract or Full Text article of interest

2. Click the [Download to Citation Manager] link above the article title.

3. When the tagged version of the citation is displayed, scroll until the "Save" button can be seen.

4. Select your preferred format (Macintosh, PC or Unix) from the "Save" menu and click the Save button.

5. Select the directory you wish to save the file in and give the file a unique name.

6. Follow the instructions that came with your citation manager to import the reference into your personal bibliographic database

If your citation manager does not support import of Medlars format, you may still use the Download function. After saving the citation to your local disk, open the citation file and manually copy/paste the information in the file into the appropriate fields in your personal bibliographic database.

Viewing Figures

Thumbnail Images:

A "thumbnail" -- a small version -- of each figure or equation appears in the text. In most cases, these thumbnails are sufficient to permit you to decide if you want to see the larger version(s).

Medium-Sized Images:

Clicking on a thumbnail opens a second window in your browser that displays a larger version of a table or figure, as well as the complete text of the figure's caption. You don't need any additional software to view this medium-size image.

Large, High-Resolution Images:

To view a high-resolution version of a figure, click on the medium-sized image or the link to "[View Larger Version of this Image]". Browsers can be used to view high-resolution images, but we recommend using a helper application instead. Read about obtaining and configuring a graphics viewer under the appropriate section: Macintosh, Windows, or Unix.

Printing

• Articles: Print the "Reprint (PDF) Version of this article" version for output that closely resembles the paper version of MMBR Online.

• Abstracts, tables of contents, search results: Use your browser's Print function.

• High-Resolution figures: JPEGView for Macintosh or LViewPro for Windows.

Please see Help with Printing for more detailed information.

Browsing

To view the contents of the current issue, click on the "Current Issue" link on the home page. The table of contents also includes a link to an index of authors for the current issue.

To view the contents of any online issue, click the "Archive" button at the top of most pages. This will display a list of the issues that are available for browsing.

To search the contents of all online issues, click the "Search" button at the top of most pages.

When viewing the table of contents for an online issue, you can search for words in the text of the articles in that issue by entering words in the search box and clicking the Enter button. Read Help with Searching to learn how searching works in MMBR Online.

To view contents of upcoming issues, click on the "View Future Titles" link on the home page. You can then use the Find function in your browser to find words in the titles listed in the table of contents.

To see an article, click on its [Full Text] link. To see one Abstract, click on its [Abstract] link. To review many Abstracts, check the boxes to the left of the titles you want and click Get All Checked Abstract(s).

Searching

Please see Help with Searching for detailed information on searching MMBR Online.

To search MMBR Online, enter search terms in the spaces provided. Select a date range if desired. Note that if you do not change the date range provided, your search will cover all available issues. Click the Start Search button.

Titles of articles retrieved as a result of searching are returned in relevance ranked order. The "closest matches" will be articles that match more of your search terms, that match your terms more closely, that have more occurrences of any one term, and that have occurrences earlier in the Abstract or article. You have several choices as to the number of "closest matches" retrieved.

In the list of titles retrieved by your search, To see one Abstract, click on its [Abstract] link. To review many Abstracts, check the boxes to the left of the titles you want and click on Get All Checked Abstract(s).