# Presentation: 491686

## NLM Online UpdateMay 16, 2005

- David Gillikin
- National Library of Medicine
- National Institutes of Health
- Department of Health & Human Services

## Presentations

-  David Gillikin, Online Update
-  Joyce Backus, MedlinePlus
-  Maria Collins, DOCLINE
-  Questions

## Indexing

- FY2004 = highest ever indexing rate
- Over 567,000 citations indexed
- FY2005
- 300,500 citations indexed in first 6 months
- Projected annual production rate = over 600,000 citations

## Indexing

- Keyboarding operation eliminated June 2004
- 75% of MEDLINE citations created by publisher supplied data
- 25% created by scanning and OCR
- Entrez Gene replaced Locus Link for gene indexing (November 2004)
- Gene indexing performed for over 1,800 organisms

## Indexing

- Indexing contracts re-competed and awarded.
- Developing Web-based indexing manual and Web-based training program for new indexers.
- New initiative “Indexing 2015” – long term project for augmenting and improving indexing process with more automated systems.

## Milestones

- In the past year, 155 journals added to MEDLINE.
- Nearly 5,000 journals are now being indexed.
- Space Life Sciences citations again being added after nearly a year’s hiatus due to contracting dispute.

## Milestones

- December 2004 – *Index Medicus *discontinued as a print publication.
- Black & White MeSH, List of Journals Indexed continue to be published.

*Moment of Silence, Please*

## Gateway

- Access to new collections
- Genetics Home Reference.
- NLM Catalog is searched instead of LocatorPlus.  Results link to LocatorPlus entry.
- 9,549 abstracts from HIV/AIDS meetings added.
- Site Redesign

## New Gateway Design

- Search Box and Tab Format

- Limits and Preferences now found under Limits/Settings Tab

- List of Collections available for searching

## New Gateway Design

## Gateway

- Two Gateway Reviews scheduled
- in the exhibit booth theater
- during the next 2 days.
- Please stop by for more information.

## OLDMEDLINE

- Work continues, new records converted as time and resources permit.
- Contents of the 1950 *Current List of Medical Literature* added to PubMed.
- Current total of OLDMEDLINE citations is over 1,760,000.
- Investigating mapping current MeSH headings to OLDMEDLINE citations.

## Index Cat

- Index Cat*, *the online version of the *Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General’s Office*
- New home page
- New Help Screens
- New Download, Save, Print, and E-mail capabilities

## PubMed

- 15 millionth citation to PubMed added this year.
- Current total exceeds 15.5 million citations.

## PubMed

- Usage continues to grow
- Searches by Unique IPS
- March 2004	:   Nearly 5 million unique IPs
**March 2005:   Nearly 7 million unique IPs**
- Total number of searches
- March 2004:  over 59.2 million searches
**March 2005:  over 68 million searches**
- Page view:
- March 2004:  over 254 million page views
**March 2005:  over 294 million page views**

## PubMed

- Number of changes and improvements this past year, here are the highlights:

- PubMed Action bar redesigned. Selections from the *Display format, Show, Sort by,* or *Send to* menus take effect immediately.

- Tab format introduced for options such as Limits, History, as well as for the results section.

- A default filter for the publication type, **Review**, was added for all users.

- A **spell-checking** feature was added to suggest alternative spellings for PubMed search terms.

## MyNCBI

- Cubby has been changed to MyNCBI, providing automatic e-mailing of search updates and filters to group your retrieval by areas of interest

## PubMedAdditional Enhancements

- PubMed’s translation of searches that include MeSH entry terms was enhanced,  augmenting retrieval of non-MEDLINE citations.
**Clinical Queries** page redesigned to provide an improved interface.
- New **Special Queries** page, directory of topic-specific PubMed queries, created.

## PubMedAdditional Enhancements

- Hovering mouse over the MEDLINE journal abbreviation displays the full journal name.
- Supplementary Concept Record terms (over 140,000 substance names)  were added to the MeSH Database.  This database now contains the full MeSH vocabulary.

## PubMedAdditional Enhancements

- Two new author search features:
- First Author search
- Full Author Name search (for 2002 data forward)
- Single Citation Matcher enhancements:
- Auto-complete feature added to Journal Titles box
- Really Simple Syndication (RSS) function in development

## PubMed

- Three PubMed Reviews scheduled
- in the exhibit booth theater
- during the next 2 days.
- Please stop by for more information.
- Remember:  The ***NLM Technical Bulletin*** keeps you informed about PubMed.  Subscribe to **NLM-Announces** for e-mail updates.

## LinkOut

- 4,667 journals with LinkOut links
- PubMed Citations:
- 30% have full text links
- 7%  have free full text links
- PubMed citations from 1999 on:
- 80% have full text links
- 15% have free full text links
- Usage:
- 19.5 million LinkOut hits/month;
- 850,000 LinkOut hits/work day

## LinkOut

- LinkOut for Libraries program
- 1241 Libraries participating (as of May 6), nearly 300 more than at this time last year.
- LinkOut Display redesigned with a better user interface.
- LinkOut holdings is now presented as a filter tab, providing a way to access library holdings easily.

## LinkOut

- LinkOut User Meeting
- Tuesday, May 17
- 7:30 – 9:00 am
- Convention Center, River 008A
- The User Meeting is designed for those involved in managing and supporting LinkOut and Outside Tool in their libraries.

## PubMed Central

- March 2005, the number of unique IPs searching PMC for a month topped 1 million for the first time.
- As of May 1:
- 184 journals participating in PMC
- Covering over **370,000** articles
- Announcements of new PMC titles and coverage appear regularly in the *NLM Technical Bulletin*.

## PubMed Central

- Launch of the new NIH Manuscript Submission system (May 2, 2005)
- NIH Public Access Policy
- NLM Update presentation by Betsy Humphreys

## Training

- Between January 2004 and April 2005 over 1200 users have taken our training courses throughout the country:
- PubMed
- Gateway
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- TOXNET
- Unified Medical Language System (UMLS)

**Notes:**
The classes include PubMed, Gate

## Training

- New regional 3-day course offered by NCBI: Introduction to Molecular Biology Information Resources, 109 participants so far, 4 additional sites in 2005 and 2006.
- Houston, Texas; Ann Arbor, Michigan; Davis, California; Boston, Massachusetts
- National Training Center and Clearinghouse:
- Usability study (November 2004)
- Home page redesign under development

**Notes:**
The classes include PubMed, Gate

## NLM Technical Bulletin

- New features anticipated for July-August issue:
- Search function, allowing searching of index text back to 1979 and the article text back to 1997.
- Print This Issue, allows you to print a entire issue (closed issue).
- What Other Readers are Reading
- E-mail Notification of New Articles and Issue Closure  (link to subscribe to the NLM-Announces mailing list)

## Technical Services

- Cataloging data in XML format (August 2004)
- CatfilePlus in XML
- Serfile in XML
- 2005 edition of the *NLM Classification* available online, April 2005
- Incorporate changes from April 2004 to April 2005
- Redesigned online look
- NLM Catalog, launched September 2004

- - URL: http://nlmcatalog.nlm.nih.gov
- - Similar search and display features like PubMed
- - Unlimited set of records
- - MeSH term explosions
- - Boolean functionality with subject headings
-  Citation link to the complete catalog record in LocatorPlus

## Data Distribution

- Data distribution program continues to grow, with research areas in academics, biotech, and software development companies leading the way.
- Over 300 MEDLINE licensees.
- 105 Non-USA licensees.

## Unified Medical Language System (UMLS)

- 3 UMLS releases this past year
- Next release scheduled for mid-June 2005
- MetamorphoSys software continues to be enhanced, improving functionality and usability
- Web-based Annual Report form for license information

- Please stop by the NLM booth
- and let us know what you think,
- what you like, what you don’t like,
- and what we can do better.
- Thank you!