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aria-controls="email-action-panel"
aria-expanded="false"
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data-ga-action="email"
data-ga-label="cancel">
Cancel
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<h3 class="action-panel-heading">
Add to Collections
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<li>
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name="collections"
value="new"
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data-ga-label="collections_radio_existing">
<label for="collections-action-panel-existing">Add to an existing collection</label>
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Choose a collection:
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data-ga-category="save_share"
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Unable to load your collection due to an error<br>
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type="submit"
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Add to My Bibliography
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<label for="my-bibliography">My Bibliography</label>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
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Unable to load your delegates due to an error<br>
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type="submit"
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Add
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data-ga-category="save_share"
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data-ga-label="cancel">
Cancel
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<div class="inner-wrap">
<h2 class="action-panel-heading">
Your saved search
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Name of saved search:
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type="text"
name="saved-search-name"
id="saved-search-name"
class="saved-search-name"
value=""
required
pattern="[^&quot;&amp;=&lt;&gt;\/]*" title="The following characters are not allowed in the Name field: &quot;&amp;=&lt;&gt;/">
</div>
<div class="action-panel-control-wrap">
<label for="saved-search-term" class="action-panel-label required-field-asterisk">
Search terms:
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</div>
<div class="test-search-term-wrap">
<a href="#" class="try-search-term">Test search terms</a>
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<span class="action-panel-label" id="fieldset-label">
Would you like email updates of new search results?
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<li>
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</li>
</ul>
</fieldset>
</div>
<div class="alert-schedule-wrap">
<div class="action-panel-control-wrap">
<label class="action-panel-label">
Email:
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<span aria-label="Email address" id="saved-search-email" class="action-panel-label"><span class="action-panel-label-bold"></span> (<a class="myncbi-account-settings" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/account/settings/">change</a>)</span>
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Frequency:
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</select>
</div>
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<label for="saved-search-monthly-on-day" class="action-panel-label">
Which day?
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</div>
<div class="action-panel-control-wrap saved-search-weekly-additional">
<label for="saved-search-weekly-on-day" class="action-panel-label">
Which day?
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<select id="saved-search-weekly-on-day" class="no-border-panel-selector saved-search-weekly-on-day">
<option value="Sunday">Sunday</option>
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</div>
<div class="action-panel-control-wrap">
<label for="saved-search-report" class="action-panel-label">
Report format:
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</div>
<div class="action-panel-control-wrap">
<label for="saved-search-amount" class="action-panel-label">
Send at most:
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</div>
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Send even when there aren't any new results
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Optional text in email:
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class="saved-search-email-text"></textarea>
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<button class="action-panel-submit"
type="submit"
data-loading-label="Saving..."
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data-ga-action="alert"
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Save
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ref="linksrc=close_saved_search_panel"
aria-controls="saved-search-action-panel"
aria-expanded="false"
data-ga-category="save_share"
data-ga-action="alert"
data-ga-label="cancel">
Cancel
</button>
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<div class="inner-wrap">
<h2 class="action-panel-heading">
Create a file for external citation management software
</h2>
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<div class="action-panel-actions">
<button class="action-panel-submit"
type="submit"
data-loading-label="Sending..."
data-ga-category="save_share"
data-ga-action="citation_manager"
data-ga-label="save">
Create file
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aria-controls="citation-manager-action-panel"
aria-expanded="false"
data-ga-category="save_share"
data-ga-action="citation_manager"
data-ga-label="cancel">
Cancel
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</div>
</div>
<div id="rss-action-panel" class="rss-action-panel action-panel " aria-hidden="true">
<div class="inner-wrap">
<h2 class="action-panel-heading">
Your RSS Feed
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<div class="action-panel-control-wrap">
<label for="rss-name" class="action-panel-label required-field-asterisk">
Name of RSS Feed:
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<input maxlength="200"
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required
pattern="[^&quot;&amp;=&lt;&gt;\/]*" title="The following characters are not allowed in the Name field: &quot;&amp;=&lt;&gt;/">
</div>
<div class="rss-limit-wrap">
<div class="action-panel-control-wrap action-panel-extra-margin-top">
<label for="rss-limit" class="action-panel-label">
Number of items displayed:
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<select id="rss-limit" class="no-border-panel-selector rss-limit">
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<option value="10">10</option>
<option value="15" selected="selected">15</option>
<option value="20">20</option>
<option value="50">50</option>
<option value="100">100</option>
</select>
</div>
</div>
<div class="action-panel-actions">
<button class="action-panel-submit"
type="submit"
data-loading-label="Creating..."
data-ga-category="save_share"
data-ga-action="alert"
data-ga-label="save">
Create RSS
</button>
<button class="action-panel-cancel"
aria-label="Close 'Your RSS' panel"
ref="linksrc=close_rss_panel"
aria-controls="rss-action-panel"
aria-expanded="false"
data-ga-category="save_share"
data-ga-action="alert"
data-ga-label="cancel">
Cancel
</button>
</div>
<div class="action-panel-control-wrap rss-link-copy-wrap">
<label for="rss-link" class="usa-sr-only">RSS Link</label>
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type="button"
disabled
class="rss-link-copy-button disabled"
data-ga-category="save_share"
data-ga-action="rss"
data-ga-label="copy">
Copy
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</div>
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data-in-collections="false"><span class="button-label">Collections</span></button><div class="overlay" role="dialog"><div id="collections-action-dialog"
class="dialog collections-dialog"
aria-hidden="true"><div class="title">Add to Collections</div><div class="collections-action-panel action-panel"><form id="collections-action-dialog-form"
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id="collections-action-dialog-new"
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name="collections"
value="new"
data-ga-category="collections_button"
data-ga-action="click"
data-ga-label="collections_radio_new"><label for="collections-action-dialog-new">Create a new collection</label></li><li><input type="radio"
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value="existing"
checked="true"
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Name your collection:
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type="text"
name="add-to-new-collection"
id="collections-action-dialog-add-to-new"
class="collections-action-add-to-new"
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maxlength="100"
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data-ga-action="create_collection"
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Name must be less than 100 characters
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Choose a collection:
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data-ga-category="collections_button"
data-ga-action="select_collection"
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type="submit"
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data-ga-action="click"
data-ga-label="add">
Add
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ref="linksrc=close_collections_panel"
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aria-expanded="false"
data-ga-category="collections_button"
data-ga-action="click"
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