From Health Professionals to Health Consumers: New Opportunities for the Medical Library Network

1. From Health Professionals to Health Consumers:New Opportunities for the Medical Library Network Becky J. Lyon CRICS V April 27, 2001

2. Web access to NLM services • National and international partners • NLM/PAHO/CRID project • Health information for the public

3. www.nlm.nih.gov

4. MEDLINE • First available in 1971 • 1976 contained 3.5 million citations • 1980 became available to several other countries • 11 million citations back to 1966 • Covers 4300 journals (158 in Spanish) • 150,000 citations in Spanish

5. NLM International MEDLARS Centers

6. MEDLINE Usage • 1997 7 million searches • 2001 330 million searches

7. International Usage

8. PubMed

9. PubMed Tutorial

12. Request & Delivery • PubMed: Access to MEDLINE • DOCLINE: Online ILL system for 3,200 US & Canadian libraries; now international • Loansome Doc: Article ordering feature in PubMed

14. DOCLINE – FY 2000 • Total Requests 3 million • US libraries 2,720,127 • Canada 236,988 • International 33,194 • DOCLINE libraries • US libraries 2,911 • Canada 273 • International 37

15. Loansome Doc Users Libraries NLM Search PubMed PubMed and Loansome Doc Servers Request DOCLINE Send Orders Using LD User Registers with Library Document sent to User

16. Loansome Doc Requests • FY 1997 311,447 • FY 1998 406,264 • FY 1999 448,752 • FY 2000 820,777 • US 92% • Canada 4% • International 4%

17. National Network of Libraries of Medicine 8 Regional Medical Libraries 140 Resource Libraries in academic medical centers 4500 Primary Access Libraries

18. “Strengthen and expand global access to the world’s health-related knowledge”

19. January 2001 • Expanding partnerships • 37 organizations using DOCLINE • 15 organizations providing LD service • ~ 3,000 LD articles supplied/month • 27 US Universities provide Loansome Doc to international requesters

20. International Loansome Doc Providers

21. NLM Associate Fellowship

23. Hurricane Mitch (1998)

24. PAHO / NLM / CRID • 1999 : Special project • Support • Rebuild • Improve • Honduras & Nicaragua • Health information infrastructure

25. PAHO/NLM/CRID • Medical School of the Autonomous National University of Honduras-Tegucigalpa • Centro Universitario Region Norte-San Pedro Sula • Centro de Investigation y Estudios de la Salud-Managua • Medical School of UNAN-Leon

26. SIS/CRID FundaCRID • Funding • $250,000/yr X 2 • Training • Costa Rica, NLM • Technical support • Computers • Connectivity

27. MEDLINE Usage • 1997 7 million searches • 2001 330 million searches • 30% by the public

28. M+homepage

29. Health Information for the Public:Scope of NLM Program • Policy approved by NLM Board of Regents in May, 1999 • Improve the national infrastructure that supports access to electronic health information for the public • includes technical, organizational, and intellectual infrastructure

30. MEDLINEplus Today • Comprehensive health resource • 445 topics (diseases, wellness issues) • links to organizations, libraries, directories • Drug information • Encyclopedia • News • Over 6 million page hits/month

31. MEDLINE Searches • “Canned” searches created by NLM Reference Staff • Tailored for the consumer • current, English, clinical • 20-70 references • on selected aspects of topic • Search PubMed each time

32. Selection Guidelines • Emphasize government resources - NIH • Authoritative, accurate and well maintained • Contact organizations about • technical issues (frames) • displaying advisory boards • Links checked every night

34. Links to International Sites

35. blyon@nlm.nih.gov