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NLM Online Users’ Meeting
May 19, 2008
David Gillikin
Chief, Bibliographic Service Division
National Library of Medicine
National Institutes of Health
Department of Health & Human Services
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Presentations
David Gillikin – Online Update
Paula Kitendaugh – MedlinePlus
Maria Collins – DOCLINE
Questions
Presentations will be posted on the NLM Technical Bulletin, http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/tb.html
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Evaluation Results from 2007 Meeting
61 responses provided at the end of the 2007 NLM Online Users’ Meeting
(1) How useful was the information covered during this session?
Scale 1 (not useful) – 5 (extremely useful)
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Evaluation Results from 2007 Meeting
(2) Was enough time spent on each topic?
Scale 1 (too little) – 5 (too much)
(3) What part was the most useful?
Across the board in response, lead by information about PubMed/MEDLINE (21%) and MedlinePlus (20%)
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Evaluation Results from 2007 Meeting
(4) What part was the least useful?
Across the board in response, but the majority of users (39%) did not respond to this question.
There was no consistent agreement.
(5) Suggestions for improvements/additions.
45% did not respond.
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Evaluation Results from 2007 Meeting
Most frequent suggestions:
- Schedule session at a different time (5 requests).
- The time period is provided by MLA.
- Request for live demos and new feature details (3 requests).
- NLM Theater Presentations.
- Coffee (3 requests).
- Paperwork alone could keep us from being here.
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Indexing
- FY2007
- 670,943 indexed citations added to MEDLINE.
- Highest ever indexing rate (last year was 629,000 indexed citations).
- >51,823 gene indexing links created (10% increase from last year).
- FY2008
- Anticipating an overall rate of around 700,000 articles for the year.
- 88% of MEDLINE citations now supplied electronically by publishers.
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Indexing
Electronic Journal Indexing
- Last year: approximately 400 journals were being indexed from the online version.
- Beginning in the first quarter of FY2008, large scale conversion process has been underway.
- Over 1,000 journals are now being indexed from the online version (more than 20% of MEDLINE journals).
- 2nd quarter of FY08: 38% of new MEDLINE citations came from journals indexed from the online version (compared to 15% in FY07).
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Grant Numbers
- Traditionally covered NIH grant numbers.
- Now including grant data from:
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Wellcome Trust & 7 additional PMC-UKMS funding groups
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Indexing
Group Authors and Associated Collaborators
- When articles cite a group author, the members of the group are now being entered as collaborators/investigators [IR].
- Search in PubMed as:
Smith AB – searches for both authors and investigators
Smith AB [AU] – searches specifically for names designated as an author
Smith AB [IR] – searches specifically for names designated as a collaborator/investigator
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OLDMEDLINE
- 55,557 citations added from the 1949 Current List of Medical Literature (CLML) to MEDLINE/PubMed in December 2007.
- Working on mapping the citation keywords to current MeSH.
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PubMed
- PubMed – surpassed 17.8 million records
- MEDLINE – over 16.5 million (92.7%)
- In Process records – over 238,000 (1.3%)
- OLDMEDLINE – over 450,000 (2.5%)
- PubMed-only records – over 612,000 (3.5%)
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PubMed Enhancements
- Diacritics – now displayed in author names and affiliation on the AbstractPlus, Abstract, and Citation displays.
- Expansion of Pharmacological Action Terms.
- Patient Drug Information Available on AbstractPlus display – links to MedMaster drug information.
- Details available in articles on the NLM Technical Bulletin.
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PubMed Enhancements
PubMed Alerts
- Email notification of major system problems for PubMed, Journals database, Entrez MeSH database and the NLM Catalog.
- Broadcast listserv to which users can subscribe.
- Details:
- NLM Technical Bulletin
- MEDLINE/PubMed Resources guide (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pmresources.html)
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PubMed Enhancements
PubMed Searching
- Roll out of new search function – tries to identify if a search is looking for a specific author or journal citation.
- Separate search results presented:
- “Citation” Search.
- Regular Search – automatic term mapping (ATM) function has been broadened (expanded to search all fields).
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PubMed screenshot
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PubMed screenshot
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PubMed Enhancements
- Advance Search Screen
- Beta launch page
- Field Searching
- Author
- Journal Title
- Publication Date
- Other Fields
- Limits Functionality
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PubMed Advanced Search screenshot
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Screenshot of PubMed Limits page
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PubMed Central
- Statistics as of May 1:
- 457 journals participating in PMC (249 last year).
- Covering over 1.6 million articles (969,278 last year).
- Announcements of new PMC titles and coverage appear regularly in the NLM Technical Bulletin.
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PMC Scanning Project
Journal Back Issues loaded to PubMed.
- 51 Completed Journals and growing.
- 97,306 total citations added.
- 43,803 new abstracts added to already existing PubMed citations.
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3rd Party Back Issue Citations
- Publisher requests to include their retrospective data.
- Science Magazine – first test case.
- Citation data loaded from 1880-2000.
- 93,744 new citations loaded.
- 8,705 new abstracts were added to already existing PubMed citations for Science.
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LinkOut
- 6,199 journals with LinkOut links (5,772 reported last year)
- Activity: 27 million hits/month; 1.2million per work day
- PubMed Citations:
- 46.7% have full text links.
- 13.1% have free full text links.
- PubMed citations from 1999 on:
- 83.4% have full text links.
- 19.7% have free full text links.
- LinkOut for Libraries program
- 1,934 Libraries participating as of May 1.
- 491 Libraries participating in Outside tool.
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LinkOut User Meeting
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Gateway Redesign
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Gateway Redesign
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Training
- In the past year, over 1,000 users have taken our training courses throughout the country, covering PubMed, Gateway, ClinicalTrials.gov, TOXNET, UMLS.
- Web Casts – new feature
- Search Clinic on chemical and drug searching in PubMed.
- UMLS web casts on UMLS products and usage.
- Accessible from Distance Education Program Resources page:
- http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/dist_edu.html
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Training
NLM Theater
- Presentations on 12 different NLM products and services are being provided.
- Presentations being recorded and will be posted on the NLM Web site, along with the PowerPoint slides
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NLM Technical Bulletin
- Usage
- Average of 542 visits/day
- Nearly 1,160 page views/day
- Redesign of Table of Contents - elimination of Tech Notes for easier linking and indexing.
- New search engine later this year.
- Sign-up for weekly NLM Announces email or for the RSS feed of the Technical Bulletin.
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Technical Services Division
- 2008 edition of the NLM Classification available April 2008.
- Online version (wwwcf.nlm.nih.gov/class/).
- PDF version (www.nlm.nih.gov/class/terms_cond.html).
- Major areas of updates/changes:
- Public Health (WA).
- Practice of Medicine (WB).
- Geographic Notations (Table G).
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Data Distribution
- Data distribution program continues to grow, with research areas in academics, biotech, and software development companies leading the way.
- Over 472 licensees in FY2007:
- 439 are licensing MEDLINE.
- 176 are non-USA licensees.
- 320 are using the data for research purposes.
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Unified Medical Language System (UMLS)
- UMLS Releases:
- 3 UMLS releases in 2007:
- 2007AA released January 16.
- 2007AB released July 2.
- 2007AC released November 11.
- 2 releases planned for 2008:
- 2008AA released April 1.
- 2008AB planned for November.
- Licensing:
- 3,049 licensees in FY2007.
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Unified Medical Language System (UMLS)
- January 2008 SNOMED CT Release made available on February 4.
- Version 6.0 of the UMLS Knowledge Source Server is now available for use with the 2006 and up releases of the UMLS data.
- First UMLS Users Meeting held during the annual AMIA meeting in November. Over 50 users attended.
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DailyMed
- http://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/
- Provides high quality information about marketed drugs, including FDA approved labels (package inserts).
- 3,856 approved prescription drugs included.
- Once a label is released by the FDA, it is included in DailyMed within 2 hours.
- Over 65,000 RSS subscribers.
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Specialized Information Services (SIS)
- TOX MAP:
- Updated cancer and other mortality data.
- Redesigned Search and Set Region pages.
- Enhanced, more accurate map presentations with a variety of map scales.
- TOXNET:
- Carcinogenic Potency Database now available.
- Reports analyses of animal cancer tests on 1,547 chemicals.
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Specialized Information Services (SIS)
- WISER 4.0 version has been released.
- NLM Drug Information Portal Web site launched: covers current drug information from NLM and other government agencies.
http://druginfo.nlm.nih.gov/ - NLM Disaster Information Management Research Center (DIMRC) Web Site launched: provides access to disaster health information at all stages of preparedness, response, mitigation, and recovery.
http://disasterinfo.nlm.nih.gov/
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ClinicalTrials.gov
- Site redesign introduced.
- New User Interface.
- New features provide users with different options to display results lists and study information based on their needs.
- Search terms and synonyms are now highlighted in study records.
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Screenshot of ClinicalTrials.gov
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Screenshot of ClinicalTrials.gov
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Screenshot of ClinicalTrials.gov
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Publications
- List of Serials Indexed for Online Users 2008 (LSIOU) and List of Journals Indexed for MEDLINE 2008(LJI) – now available.
- LSIOU: PDF and XML formats.
- LJI: PDF and Print formats.
- In 2009, the PDF and print versions will be discontinued. The data is expected to be available through the Journals Database and other NLM resources.
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NIH Public Access Policy
- Mandatory for NIH grantees
- http://PublicAccess.nih.gov
- MLA Open Forum, Tuesday May 20
- Public Access – NIH policy
- Open Access – copyright ownership
- PubMed Central – public archive
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Thank you!
Please stop by the NLM booth for additional information, the NLM Theater presentations, and to give us your feedback.
Last Reviewed: November 4, 2013