5a. The Clipboard is a temporary saving place - and a handy PubMed tool. It allows you to save selected citations for up to 8 hours while you run additional searches.

Use the Clipboard: Place a check in the box next to one or more citations that you want to save. Then, from the Send to pull down menu, select Clipboard.

Citations in your search results that are already in the Clipboard are marked with a note, in green, stating: Item in clipboard.

Click the Clipboard items link, located to the right of the Send to menu, to view the citations you have saved. (This link also displays the total number of items in the Clipboard). Use the Send to menu in the Clipboard to remove from the clipboard, email or save your citations.

Warning: The maximum number of items that can be sent to the Clipboard is 500. If you select Clipboard from Send to without selecting citations, PubMed will add all (up to 500 citations) of your search results to the Clipboard.