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LinkOut Update: New Home Page, Help, and Localization Enhancements at the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting

Learn about the latest updates on LinkOut at the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, including new home page design, enhanced localization features, and helpful tutorials. Explore the new resources and promotional materials for libraries. Get insights into future plans for the Submission Utility and the Discovery Initiative.

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LinkOut Update: New Home Page, Help, and Localization Enhancements at the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting

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  1. Update Y. Kathy Kwan LinkOut User Meeting May 21, 2006 Medical Library Association Annual Meeting

  2. Participants

  3. Full Text Links from 5144 PubMed Journals

  4. Usage

  5. Achievements • New Home page and Help • Enhancing localization: • Share My NCBI selections with your users • Choosing a display name for your filter tab • New Flash tutorials • New look for LinkOut journals lists • LinkOut promotional materials

  6. New Home Page & Help • LinkOut Home provides one stop for all information about LinkOut • easy navigation and quick access to Help manual • frequently updated information, such as FAQs and training materials • LinkOut Help is a basic instruction manual for LinkOut, Outside Tool and DDS participation

  7. New Home Page & Help

  8. New Home Page “Quick Links” to frequently used resources. “Quick links” to Help and FAQ lists. Tab format groups resources for easy access.

  9. New Home Page Links are grouped by topic. Information for Libraries is under the “Libraries” tab.

  10. LinkOut Help Searchable! Complete contents here. LinkOut Help is a book on the NCBI bookshelf. TOC in sidebar.

  11. LinkOut Help Each chapter is available as a PDF for easy printing.

  12. Enhanced localizing: My NCBI share • Display icons, filter tabs, and highlighting from My NCBI using a special URL • Example: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?myncbishare=linkout • Set all preferences in a special My NCBI account, using LinkOut User Name as the account name, and choose to share the selection • Users will see a localized abstract display when accessing PubMed through this URL

  13. Enhanced localizing : Choosing a Display Name

  14. New Tutorials • 3 short animated Flash tutorials • Displaying Icons • Setting up filters • PubMed & OpenURL-based services • LinkOut>Libraries>Training and Promotion

  15. New Look for LinkOut Journal Lists • LinikOut home > quick links: Journal Lists • One stop for • All journals with full text links • Journals with SOME full text links • Those added in the last 60 days

  16. LinkOutPromotional Materials • Help libraries promote LinkOut to users. • Today’s featured topic.

  17. Future Plans: Submission Utility version 2 • Library Submission Utility redesign • Goals: • Improve layout for easier use • Journal title ranges, tab format to group functions • Incorporate new features • Add prefix/suffix to links, manage Outside Tool and DDS in one place, select primary provider • Go to NLM Theatre for a live demo! • Monday 4 pm • Tuesday 2 pm

  18. Future Plans: Submission Utility version 2

  19. Submission Utility 2

  20. Future Plans: IP recognition? • The most frequently asked question: • Why can’t I see my library icon? • http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov?holding=LinkOutUserName or select the library in My NCBI • IP recognition • recognize user’s IP range(s) and behave accordingly • Authentication and authorization scheme used by many full text providers • NCBI is looking into it

  21. Future Plans: Discovery Initiative • NCBI director Dr. Lipman’s comments, appeared in PuMed Getting a Makeover, Bio-ITWorld.com Jan 30,2006 http://www.bio-itworld.com/newsitems/2006/january/01-30-06-news-pubmed • “What we’ll do instead is, using computational tools, poke around for you and then put [the related information] right on the record.” • “we want them to find answers to questions they didn’t even know they had.” • LinkOut resources will hopefully be more visible!

  22. Update Questions or Comments??

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