Localizing PubMed® Health Services Research (HSR) Queries for Your Library

At the request of our users, the Health Services Research Queries (see Figure 1) now have a URL that can be customized to display your library holdings icon, to apply your library's Outside Tool (otool) icon, or to apply both to PubMed citations.

Figure 1: HSR Queries Page.

How to Use These URLs

• To display your LinkOut library icon on PubMed citations from searches using the HSR Queries, use the following URL:
  
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nichsr/hedges/search.html?holding=NameAbbr
  
  Replace NameAbbr with your library's LinkOut User Name.
  
  
• To display your library's Outside Tool icon on PubMed citations from searches using the HSR Queries, use the following URL:
  
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nichsr/hedges/search.html?otool=NameAbbr
  
  Replace NameAbbr with your library's Outside Tool User Name.
  
  
• To display both library and Outside Tool icons on PubMed records from searches using the HSR Queries, use the following URL:
  
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nichsr/hedges/search.html?holding=NameAbbr&otool=NameAbbr
  
  Replace NameAbbr with your library's LinkOut and Outside Tool User Name.
  
  

The example in Figure 2 shows the library icon for the Mount Sinai Levy Library on the right and their Outside Tool icon below on the left.

Figure 2: PubMed Citation Showing Levy Library LinkOut and Outside Tool Icons.

The Levy Library icon links Levy Library patrons to the full-text of the article via their institutional subscription. Their Outside Tool (otool) icon, the Levy Library FIND IT button, on the left links users to customized library services, available through their link resolver (openURL-based service), e.g., print collection holdings or the ability to export citations into bibliographic management software. The Levy Library FIND IT service is described in an online guide and includes information about how the Library has seamlessly linked resources for their users, including linking from PubMed citations to their specialized library services.

For more information about the HSR Queries, see these NLM Technical Bulletin articles:

• Qualitative Research Added to the Health Services Research (HSR) Search Filters
• Beta Test on Health Services Research (HSR) Filters for Searching PubMed®
  
  

For more information about this feature for localizing PubMed in LinkOut, see the LinkOut Help section on [link removed] Localizing PubMed for Your Users.

Auston I. Localizing PubMed® Health Services Research (HSR) Queries for Your Library. NLM Tech Bull. 2008 Sep-Oct; (364):e1.