MLA 2008, Sunrise Seminar PowerPoint Presentation, David Gillikin

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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!

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