Tip #15: Long Search String URLs - longquery Troubles in PubMed

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Do you long for the good old days of Legacy PubMed's Search Details URL generator to share long searches with your teams? In new PubMed, you can share a search by copying the URL from the results page, like this:
 
 BUT, if you try to share a longer search, the URL string is translated into a query key like this "longquery9a58987564a53ee81e0" which generates a URL that is not stable or sharable:


To get around this longquery issue, you can simply add this https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term= to the front of your search string, then copy/paste the entire string into the address bar:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=("Meditation"[Mesh] OR meditat*[tiab] OR Koan[tiab] OR Samadhi[tiab]) OR ("Mental Healing"[Mesh] OR "mental healing"[tiab] OR "Emmanuel movement"[tiab] OR "healing god"[tiab] OR "holotropic breathwork"[tiab] OR "Jewish science"[tiab] OR "magnetic healing" OR "psychic surgery"[tiab] OR rebirth*[tiab] OR Reiki[tiab]) OR  ("Psychodrama"[Mesh] OR psychodrama[tiab] OR "role play"[tiab] OR "role playing"[tiab] OR "drama therapy"[tiab]) OR ("Psychophysiology"[Mesh:noexp] OR psychophysiology[tiab]) OR ("Relaxation Therapy"[Mesh] OR "relaxation therapy"[tiab] OR "relaxation therapies"[tiab]) OR ("Tai Ji"[Mesh] OR "Tai Ji"[tiab] OR TaiJi[tiab] OR TaiChi[tiab] OR "Tai Chi"[tiab]) OR ("Therapeutic Touch"[Mesh] OR "therapeutic touch"[tiab]) OR ("Yoga"[Mesh] OR yoga[tiab]) OR ("polarity therapy"[tiab]) OR (prolotherap*[tiab]) OR ("Musculoskeletal Manipulations"[Mesh] OR (manipulation*[tiab] AND (osteopathic[tiab] OR spinal[tiab] OR cranial[tiab] OR craniosacral[tiab] OR "soft tissue"[tiab])) OR kinesiology[tiab] OR "soft tissue therapy"[tiab] OR "soft tissue therapies"[tiab] OR chiropractic[tiab] OR "spinal adjustment*"[tiab] OR "craniosacral therapy"[tiab]) OR ("Motion Therapy, Continuous Passive"[Mesh] OR "movement therapy"[tiab] OR "movement therapies"[tiab] OR "motion therapy"[tiab]) OR ("Massage"[Mesh] OR massage[tiab] OR Rolfing[tiab]) OR (mesmerism[tiab]) OR ("Naturopathy"[Mesh] OR naturopath*[tiab]) 
 


2/7/2023 - Addendum submitted by Peter Johnson, University of Kansas Medical Center, @libraryvines@mindly.social. 

"If for whatever reason you need a string’s URL with the original syntax, after entering it with the https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term= prefix, when you look up the search in Advanced and click through, it’s rendered with the necessary %22 and + characters in the URL bar. Some email clients (Gmail, Outlook, etc) may set a character limit on URL strings, so be sure to test your long search string before sharing with a patron or user."


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