NLM Gateway Update, MLA 2008

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Gateway Update

MLA 2008

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What is the NLM Gateway?

• A web based system in which the user can search simultaneously in multiple retrieval systems at NLM from a single web interface
• Currently searches 23 collections

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Busy year …

•   Usability testing
•   Interface redesign
•   Access to more data

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Gateway Usability                  

• Designed and conducted usability study
• Analyzed the test results
• Implemented the redesign project

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New in the Gateway

  Redesigned interface

• New look / improved usability
• Search box access and use improved
• Enhanced presentation of results summary
• Simpler access to Gateway functions
• Cleaner features bar
• Documentation reviewed and enhanced

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New in the Gateway

• Redesigned interface
• Images from the History of Medicine available through NLM Catalog collection
• New HSR meeting abstracts
  •  3rd Health Technology Assessment International Meeting
  •  Two (2) AcademyHealth meetings

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Ongoing Developments

• Annual Year End Processing
• Periodic updates
  • Unified Medical Language System (UMLS)
  • HSRProject data
• AIDS Meeting Abstracts retro project

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System Demonstration

Now for a Gateway system demonstration

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Coming Soon

•  PubMed Central
•  Further Gateway enhancements

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Questions?

• Questions?
• Comments?
• Suggestions?

Gateway@nlm.nih.gov

Last updated: 03 June 2008
First published: 03 June 2008
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