# Presentation: 573679

## PubMed LinkOut

**Tips, Tricks and Enhancements**
**MLA 2004**
**Washington D.C.**

## PubMed LinkOut

- Submission Utility Enhancements

- Sliding Scale (retention period) Subscriptions,
-      Delay (Embargo) periods,
-      Month & Year dates – Edit Holdings
- Call Numbers – LinkOut Serhold
- Call Numbers & Custom Holdings – Upload Holdings

## PubMed LinkOut

- Submission Utility Enhancements

- Add a Link - Serhold and Upload Holdings
- Cancel Print Holdings – Serhold and Upload Holdings
- Statistics

## PubMedLinkOut

- Tips and Tricks

- Alternative methods to add online holdings
- Display Icons for Multiple Libraries
- Send an Abstract with your Icon
- Additional Content

## PubMedLinkOut

- Submission Utility

- You will need:
-      LinkOut Library ID
-      LinkOut password
- The utility is found at:
- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/linkout/doc/lbsub-i.html

## LinkOutEnhancements

- Subscription Periods – Online Holdings

- You can select the Month and Year for a subscription’s start
-      or end date.
- You can select a delay (embargo period) for titles.  Your
-      links will not show until the delay period is past.
- A sliding scale subscription (retention period) can now be
-      selected for online holdings.  Choose the “Retained for”
-      option.

## LinkOutEnhancements

- Sliding Scale Subscriptions -

## LinkOut Enhancements

- Call Numbers – Serhold Libraries

## LinkOut Enhancements

- Upload Holdings

- A function to load print holdings for:
- Libraries who are not Serhold members
- Linkout-SERHOLD and Upload Holdings **may be combined** when two or more libraries wish to display each other’s holdings under separate icons (one icon for each library). If you wish to display the print holdings of two or more libraries under just **one icon**, you **must** use Upload Holdings only

## LinkOut Enhancements

- Call Numbers & Custom Holdings -              	Upload Holdings

- Call numbers and/or a Custom Holdings statement can be added to the Upload Holdings text file.
- The file must be 1.5 MB or smaller
- Call numbers can be up to 50 characters long
- Custom Holdings can be up to 50 characters long
- You can add a call number, a holdings statement or both
- The file must be maintained, updated and reloaded by the library
-      but this can be done as often as you wish
- File is active by 2 pm the next business day

## LinkOut Enhancements

- Call Numbers & Custom Holdings

- The format for the file is :
- ISSN|ESSN|Medline abbreviation|Start year|End year|Start volume|End volume|Acquisition status|Call Number|Custom holdings statement|
- JAMA subscription: ||JAMA|1990|1998|262|279|4|
- JAMA subscription with call number: ||JAMA|1990|1998|262|279|4|W1 .J161
- JAMA subscription with custom holdings statement and no call number:
- ||JAMA|1990|1998|262|279|4||Library retains current year only

## LinkOut Enhancements

- Call Numbers & Custom Holdings
-      More examples are available in the online tutorial
-       http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/linkout/doc
-       holdings.html#UploadHoldings

## LinkOut Enhancements

- Add a Link – Serhold and Upload Holdings
-     A link to your catalog or an ISSN search can be added to
-      your print holdings display.  It works immediately.
-      You may need to work with your vendor to create
-      the correct search syntax

## LinkOut Enhancements

- Add a Link – the link is added in the Registration
- section to the Location or Library Catalog URL box or both

## LinkOut Enhancements

- Add a Link
-     To insert a URL in the Location box, it must be coded in HTML
-         <a href=“http://pubmed.gov>PubMed</a>
-      No special coding is needed for the Library Catalog URL box
-          http://pubmed.gov

## LinkOut Enhancements

- Add a Link – the link will display in the print record

## LinkOut Enhancements

- And send the user to the appropriate screen

## LinkOut Enhancements

- Models (also in the online tutorial):
- Dynix
- http://mylibrary.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=10H43S&X87167.547&menu=search
- &aspect=numbers&profile=mylibrary&ri=&index=ISSNEX&term=&lo.issn;
- Endeavor Voyager
- http://www.mylibrary.edu/cgibin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&Search_Arg=&lo.issn;
- &SL=None&Search_Code=ISSN&CNT=25
- ExLibris Aleph                    http://www.mylibrary.edu/F/?func=findb&base=mydatabase&find_code=022 &request=&lo.issn;
- Innovative Millenium                                            http://mylibrary.edu/search/i?SEARCH=&lo.issn;

## LinkOut Enhancements

- Cancel All Print Holdings
-      Print holdings can be deleted via
-          Serhold or Upload Holdings.
-          Warning: This will delete ALL print holdings

## LinkOut Enhancements

- Select Cancellation

## LinkOut Enhancements

- Select Confirm

## LinkOutEnhancements

- Statistics have been updated
** **

- LinkOut Total: total full-text and print accesses
- LinkOut Full-Text: number of times users click on your
-      library’s online full-text icon
- LinkOut Print: number of times users click on your library’s
-      print collection icon
- holding=[library username] - number of times users access
-      PubMed using the PubMed URL with your username
- Statistics are also available in text version for export
- NOTE: Statistics don’t track the number of users or IPs.

## LinkOutTips and Tricks

- Alternate methods
-      Ebsco users can ask Ebsco to automatically load holdings
-      information from EBSCO’s full text databases and Electronic
-      Journals Service (EJS) to LinkOut. Ebsco can load holdings one
-      time or on a continual basis.  Only titles listed under “Ebsco” on
-      the providers list will be effected.
-      http://support.epnet.com/custsupport/UserDocumentation
-      PubMed.doc

## LinkOutTips and Tricks

- Alternate methods
-      Note: When Ebsco sends files on a continual basis, the titles
-         will **NOT** be visible in the submission utility and you cannot
-         manage them.  The links created by this file **will** be shown in
-         PubMed.
-         To avoid unexpected results like duplicate links, you should
-         delete all holdings you marked under Ebsco in the submission
-         utility BEFORE Ebsco sends your file to us.

## LinkOutTips and Tricks

- Alternate methods
-      OhioLink users can ask OhioLink to add online holdings
-         Serhold users can have print holdings uploaded and maintained
-         via Serhold/OCLC. Once loaded, any new or edited records
-         should be automatically sent to LinkOut for loading.

## LinkOutTips and Tricks

- Display Multiple Holdings
-     Icons for multiple libraries can be displayed in LinkOut
-      The other library must have holdings (online or print) already
-      loaded in LinkOut
-      http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?
- 	holding=uwisclib,uablib

## LinkOutTips and Tricks

- Display Multiple Holdings:

## LinkOutTips and Tricks

- Display Multiple Holdings
-      Note: This method can also be used by Serhold libraries who
-      wish to have their Serhold print holdings uploaded **and** show
-      the print holdings of another library.  An icon for each collection
-      will be displayed.

## LinkOutTips and Tricks

- Send an abstract with your Icon:
- There are 2 ways to send an abstract with your icon visible in it.
-      Mail the URL with the holding=yourlib command included
-      Send an HTML email via PubMed

## LinkOutTips and Tricks

- Send an abstract with your Icon:
- Add the holding=yourlibrary command to the URL of the citation or
-      abstract and send it in an email
- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?holding=uablib
- &cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=15147641

## LinkOutTips and Tricks

- When the recipient clicks the link, they see

## LinkOutTips and Tricks

- Send an abstract with your Icon:
-     Send an email from within the citation
-           Choose E-mail from the “Send to” drop down box
-           on the right side of the screen

## LinkOutTips and Tricks

## LinkOutTips and Tricks

- Make sure the format is “HTML”:

## They receive an email like this

## LinkOutTips and Tricks

- For the email method, the recipient must be able
- to receive HTML mail
- Multiple citations can be sent using either method

## LinkOutTips and Tricks

- Additional Content:
- Additional Content can be found by selecting “Links” and choosing LinkOut from the green “Links” box

## Additional Content

## PubMedLinkOut

**For help or questions, contact**
**Lib-linkout@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov**** **