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Producing Lists From URLs

You can automatically create a list of your publications in your webpage through use of the Search page's URL. First, in the Publications Search page, perform the search you want. Second, copy the resulting URL displayed in your browser's Location/Address bar. Third, use that URL in your web page as a link (in the "a href" tag).

Shortening the URLs

When you perform a search, the resulting URL can be quite long. The URL can be shortened a bit by removing terms that do not equal anything.

For example, a general search might produce the following long URL (URL would normally be on one continuous line):

https://www.pmel.noaa.gov/publications/search_get_pubs_info.php?fmYrType=fiscal_year
&fmBeginYr=2007&fmAscDesc=DESC&fmEndYr=2007&fmContributionNum=
&fmStatus=PUBLISHED&fmDiv=ALL&fmInProgStatus=ALL&fmMedia=ALL
&fmNOAASeries=ALL&fmLastname1=&fmInitials1=&fmLastname2=&fmInitials2=
&fmTitle=&fmTitleQualifier=ALL&fmCitation=&fmCitationQualifier=ALL&fmAbstract=
&fmAbstractQualifier=ALL&fmSubmit=Submit

Any term that has an equal sign (=) followed immediately by an ampersand (&) can be removed from the URL because it does not equal anything. Additionally, &fmSubmit=Submit can be removed from the end of the URL. Any term in red in the above URL can be deleted.

For example the following can be removed:

&fmContributionNum=

But do not remove the following because the term is equal to something (i.e., 2007):

&fmBeginYr=2007

The example URL would then become:

https://www.pmel.noaa.gov/publications/search_get_pubs_info.php?fmYrType=fiscal_year
&fmBeginYr=2007&fmAscDesc=DESC&fmEndYr=2007 &fmStatus=PUBLISHED
&fmDiv=ALL&fmInProgStatus=ALL&fmMedia=ALL &fmNOAASeries=ALL
&fmTitleQualifier=ALL&fmCitationQualifier=ALL &fmAbstractQualifier=ALL