NLM Online Update May 16, 2005

1. NLM Online UpdateMay 16, 2005 David Gillikin National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health Department of Health & Human Services

2. Presentations • David Gillikin, Online Update • Joyce Backus, MedlinePlus • Maria Collins, DOCLINE • Questions

3. Indexing • FY2004 = highest ever indexing rate • Over 567,000 citations indexed • FY2005 • 300,500 citations indexed in first 6 months • Projected annual production rate = over 600,000 citations

4. Indexing • Keyboarding operation eliminated June 2004 • 75% of MEDLINE citations created by publisher supplied data • 25% created by scanning and OCR • Entrez Gene replaced Locus Link for gene indexing (November 2004) • Gene indexing performed for over 1,800 organisms

5. Indexing • Indexing contracts re-competed and awarded. • Developing Web-based indexing manual and Web-based training program for new indexers. • New initiative “Indexing 2015” – long term project for augmenting and improving indexing process with more automated systems.

6. Milestones • In the past year, 155 journals added to MEDLINE. • Nearly 5,000 journals are now being indexed. • Space Life Sciences citations again being added after nearly a year’s hiatus due to contracting dispute.

7. Milestones Moment of Silence, Please • December 2004 – Index Medicus discontinued as a print publication. • Black & White MeSH, List of Journals Indexed continue to be published.

8. Gateway • Access to new collections • Genetics Home Reference. • NLM Catalog is searched instead of LocatorPlus. Results link to LocatorPlus entry. • 9,549 abstracts from HIV/AIDS meetings added. • Site Redesign

9. New Gateway Design Search Box and Tab Format Limits and Preferences now found under Limits/Settings Tab List of Collections available for searching

10. New Gateway Design

11. Gateway Two Gateway Reviews scheduled in the exhibit booth theater during the next 2 days. Please stop by for more information.

12. OLDMEDLINE • Work continues, new records converted as time and resources permit. • Contents of the 1950 Current List of Medical Literature added to PubMed. • Current total of OLDMEDLINE citations is over 1,760,000. • Investigating mapping current MeSH headings to OLDMEDLINE citations.

13. Index Cat Index Cat, the online version of the Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General’s Office • New home page • New Help Screens • New Download, Save, Print, and E-mail capabilities

14. PubMed • 15 millionth citation to PubMed added this year. • Current total exceeds 15.5 million citations.

15. PubMed • Usage continues to grow • Searches by Unique IPS • March 2004 : Nearly 5 million unique IPs • March 2005: Nearly 7 million unique IPs • Total number of searches • March 2004: over 59.2 million searches • March 2005: over 68 million searches • Page view: • March 2004: over 254 million page views • March 2005: over 294 million page views

16. PubMed • Number of changes and improvements this past year, here are the highlights:

17. PubMed Action bar redesigned. Selections from the Display format, Show, Sort by, or Send to menus take effect immediately. Tab format introduced for options such as Limits, History, as well as for the results section. A default filter for the publication type, Review, was added for all users.

18. A spell-checking feature was added to suggest alternative spellings for PubMed search terms.

19. MyNCBI Cubby has been changed to MyNCBI, providing automatic e-mailing of search updates and filters to group your retrieval by areas of interest

20. PubMedAdditional Enhancements • PubMed’s translation of searches that include MeSH entry terms was enhanced, augmenting retrieval of non-MEDLINE citations. • Clinical Queries page redesigned to provide an improved interface. • New Special Queries page, directory of topic-specific PubMed queries, created.

21. PubMedAdditional Enhancements • Hovering mouse over the MEDLINE journal abbreviation displays the full journal name. • Supplementary Concept Record terms (over 140,000 substance names) were added to the MeSH Database. This database now contains the full MeSH vocabulary.

22. PubMedAdditional Enhancements • Two new author search features: • First Author search • Full Author Name search (for 2002 data forward) • Single Citation Matcher enhancements: • Auto-complete feature added to Journal Titles box • Really Simple Syndication (RSS) function in development

23. PubMed Three PubMed Reviews scheduled in the exhibit booth theater during the next 2 days. Please stop by for more information. Remember: The NLM Technical Bulletin keeps you informed about PubMed. Subscribe to NLM-Announces for e-mail updates.

24. LinkOut • 4,667 journals with LinkOut links • PubMed Citations: • 30% have full text links • 7% have free full text links • PubMed citations from 1999 on: • 80% have full text links • 15% have free full text links • Usage: • 19.5 million LinkOut hits/month; • 850,000 LinkOut hits/work day

25. LinkOut • LinkOut for Libraries program • 1241 Libraries participating (as of May 6), nearly 300 more than at this time last year. • LinkOut Display redesigned with a better user interface. • LinkOut holdings is now presented as a filter tab, providing a way to access library holdings easily.

26. LinkOut LinkOut User Meeting Tuesday, May 17 7:30 – 9:00 am Convention Center, River 008A The User Meeting is designed for those involved in managing and supporting LinkOut and Outside Tool in their libraries.

27. PubMed Central • March 2005, the number of unique IPs searching PMC for a month topped 1 million for the first time. • As of May 1: • 184 journals participating in PMC • Covering over 370,000 articles • Announcements of new PMC titles and coverage appear regularly in the NLM Technical Bulletin.

28. PubMed Central • Launch of the new NIH Manuscript Submission system (May 2, 2005) • NIH Public Access Policy • NLM Update presentation by Betsy Humphreys

29. Training • Between January 2004 and April 2005 over 1200 users have taken our training courses throughout the country: • PubMed • Gateway • ClinicalTrials.gov • TOXNET • Unified Medical Language System (UMLS)

30. Training • New regional 3-day course offered by NCBI:Introduction to Molecular Biology Information Resources, 109 participants so far, 4 additional sites in 2005 and 2006. • Houston, Texas; Ann Arbor, Michigan; Davis, California; Boston, Massachusetts • National Training Center and Clearinghouse: • Usability study (November 2004) • Home page redesign under development

31. NLM Technical Bulletin • New features anticipated for July-August issue: • Search function, allowing searching of index text back to 1979 and the article text back to 1997. • Print This Issue, allows you to print a entire issue (closed issue). • What Other Readers are Reading • E-mail Notification of New Articles and Issue Closure (link to subscribe to the NLM-Announces mailing list)

32. Technical Services • Cataloging data in XML format (August 2004) • CatfilePlus in XML • Serfile in XML • 2005 edition of the NLM Classification available online, April 2005 • Incorporate changes from April 2004 to April 2005 • Redesigned online look • NLM Catalog, launched September 2004

33. - URL: http://nlmcatalog.nlm.nih.gov • - Similar search and display features like PubMed • - Unlimited set of records • - MeSH term explosions • - Boolean functionality with subject headings • Citation link to the complete catalog record in LocatorPlus

34. Data Distribution • Data distribution program continues to grow, with research areas in academics, biotech, and software development companies leading the way. • Over 300 MEDLINE licensees. • 105 Non-USA licensees.

35. Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) • 3 UMLS releases this past year • Next release scheduled for mid-June 2005 • MetamorphoSys software continues to be enhanced, improving functionality and usability • Web-based Annual Report form for license information

36. Please stop by the NLM booth and let us know what you think, what you like, what you don’t like, and what we can do better. Thank you!