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NLM Update
NAHSL Annual Meeting
October 30, 2007
Martha R. Fishel
Chief, Public Services Division
National Library of Medicine
National Institutes of Health
Department of Health & Human Services
What’s Happening at NLM
New Supervisory Staff
Budget
Disaster Management
What’s going on at NLM
Questions
New Staff at NLM
Lisa Lang
Head, NICHSR;
and
Shana Potash
Assistant Director,
Public Affairs
Health Services
Joyce Backus
Specialist,
Research
Deputy Chief
OCPL
Information
Public Services
Division
Paula Kitendaugh
Head, Reference and
Web Services
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New Staff at NLM
Steve Phillips
Associate Director
Division of
Specialized
Information
Services
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NLM/NIH Budget
 FY2005, FY2006 – Flat budget
 FY2007 – Decreased Budget
 FY2008 – Decreased Budget
FY08 Appropriations
 Anticipated Appropriations Language
NIH Public Access Policy
Mandatory participation with an embargo of up to 12
months before articles are posted on PMC. Bill passed
Senate October 23
Clinical Trials Database
Establishment of an expanded registry database
(ClinicalTrials.gov) and a results database.
Disaster Management
 Major consideration from the NLM Long Range
plan – Development of a Disaster Information
Management Research Center
 Disaster includes public health emergencies,
manmade disasters, and natural disasters
(epidemics to catastrophic seismic and
meteorological events)
Disaster Management
 Goal – to ensure uninterrupted access to critical
information resources in the event of disaster or
other emergencies.
 Committees – LO and NLM wide to review and
plan for disaster management, including
identification of essential resources and
personnel.
Public Services Division
 MedlinePlus
 MedlinePlus en español
 Go Local
 New Search Engine
 Additional Topics
MedlinePlus: What’s New
MedlinePlus: What’s New
 Announcement about new MedlinePlus
topics, podcasts, featured sites
 Items display for 3 weeks
 RSS feed available
 Complements the current MedlinePlus Health
News RSS, which delivers press
announcements and HealthDay news stories
MedlinePlus Health Topic Pages
 Pages redesigned based on usability studies
 Changing long list of links with lots of
scrolling
 Lots of words and links but no pictures and
little white space
• Long
list of links with
lots of scrolling
• Another click to get
to “real” information
• Lots of words and
links but no pictures
and little white space
MedlinePlus en español
 Outreach
 Public Service Announcements
Su condición médica - Your Medical Condition
Ser más saludable - Staying Healthy
Preguntas a su pediatra – Questions for your
pediatrician
Medicinas recetadas – Prescription medication
Mida su salud – Measuring your health
Don Francisco
 Best-known entertainer on
Spanish television
 100 million viewers in over 20
countries
 Dedicated to health issues:
 Founded Chilean telethon for
handicapped children
 UNICEF ambassador
 VP of US Muscular Dystrophy
Association
 PAHO spokesman for public
health campaigns throughout
the Americas
Campaign Scope: Nationwide
 Distribution:
100 Spanish-language television stations
450 Radio stations
 Nielson television tracking report:
July 24 through August 12
TV PSA’s aired 9,407 times
Estimated viewers: 68 Million
Impact on Usage in Select U.S. Cities
Usage statistics for July, compared to
pre-campaign (March) usage:
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Los Angeles: up 25%
New York City: up 12%
Marina Del Rey, CA: up 182%
Phoenix: up 27%
PSA link Spanish with English subtitles
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/outreach/donfrancisco.html
Vivisimo Search Engine, October 2007
Selected Resource Spotlight
Health Topic
Summary and Image
View All Results
or by Collection
Spell checker
Search Words
in Context
Better Synonyms
Keyword
searchable
Multiple
browsing
capabilities
NISO
bibliographic
standards,
explained!
26 chapters
Easy-to-use
instructions
Hundreds
of real
examples
Go Local - Growing
 New Go Local projects, Oct ’06- Sept ’07
Nebraska: Oct 2006
Michigan: Jan 2007
Minnesota: Jul 2007
Illinois: Sep 2007
 10 other sites in development
Go Local
Evaluating Go Local
 Collected key Go Local questions from site sponsors and RMLs Dec 06-May 07
 Summarized web site use from log data – Feb-Jun 07
 Awarded NIH evaluation funding – Aug 07
 Consultant to interview all Go Local sites and perform content
analysis for pros and cons of sponsorship – Nov 07-Mar 08
 Run customer satisfaction survey
on Go
Local Massachusetts
– Oct
07-Sep 08
NIHMedlinePlus Magazine
 Summer ’07 issue –
distribution increased
from 50,000 to 300,000
(six fold increase)
 Hope to publish a
Spanish language
version in 2008
DOCLINE Today
 3,166 libraries participating
 Over 1.47 million serial holdings records
 2.31 million ILL Requests in FY06
 Fill Rate is 92.2%
 Average number of routes is 1.24
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DOCLINE Libraries
Public
17
0.54%
Other
527
16.65%
(Federal and
special libraries)
Academic
606
19.14%
Hospital
2,056
63.34%
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Network Delivery Methods
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64.17
40 Day Snapshots
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56.15
50.56
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44.51
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36.6
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27.15
19.79
23.02
23.59
22.22
14.8
11.05
10.66
10.75
21.86
8.48
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MLA 03
Ariel
MLA 04
Email PDF
MLA 05
Email TIFF
Fax
Mail
MLA 06
Web PDF
23.88
12.19
6.29
MLA 07
Web TIFF
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EFTS – working toward self
sufficiency
 Increasing market share – increase
marketing efforts with RMLs, promotional
materials available
 Decreasing expenses
 Rollout of Canadian currency conversion
feature
 Simplify billing with File Builder within
DOCLINE
 Fee increase for lenders
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Technical Services Division
 Open WorldCat
NLM now a participant
LocatorPlus entries link “Find other libraries that
own this”
WorldCat links to NLM holdings
 Title Abbreviations
Using abbreviations created by the International
Standard Serial Number (ISSN) Centre
Modified to conform to NLM standards on
punctuation and capitalization
Digital Repository Planning
 NLM Digital Repository Working Group
January 2007 functional specifications
Policy and management issues
 2nd phase underway
Evaluate commercial systems and open
source software
Goal: selection for use as the NLM digital
repository
Indexing
 FY2006
 623,089 indexed citations added to
MEDLINE.
 46,918 gene indexing links created (4%
increase from last year).
 FY2007
 670,943 indexed citations added to
MEDLINE
 7.7% increase
OLDMEDLINE
 Mapping OLDMEDLINE Keywords to current
MeSH:
 76% of citations mapped completely (over 1.34
million citations).
 Completed records converted to the status
[PubMed – Indexed for MEDLINE].
 Conversion of the citations from the 1949
Current List of Medical Literature (CLML) has
begun; anticipate loading into PubMed in
November 2007.
PubMed – Oct 2007
 PubMed – over 17.4 million records
 MEDLINE – over 16.1 million (92.5%)
 In Process records – over 211,634 (1.2%)
 OLDMEDLINE – over 420,000 (2.4%)
 PubMed-only records – over 253,000 (3.9%)
Drug Information from PubMed
MedMaster on the NCBI Bookshelf
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PubMed Central
 As of Oct 1, 2007:
 365 journals participating
 1,255,907 articles (reached 1 million mark in June)
 2.9 million unique users
 PMC Back Issue Scanning Project
 Approximately 90 journals, 5 million pages
 As of Sept 2007, 749,697 scanned articles in PMC
 Journal Back Issues loaded to PubMed
 39 Completed Journals and growing.
 > 70,000 total citations added.
 > 40,000 new abstracts added to existing PubMed
citations.
3rd Party Back Issue Citations
 Publisher requests to include their retrospective data
into PubMed.
 Goal:
 Load citations for journal issues not previously included in
MEDLINE/PubMed.
 Not indexed with MeSH.
 Add abstracts from Publisher citations that are not found in
MEDLINE citations.
 First test case – Science
 Back to 1880.
 94,298 citations added.
Training
 NLM and NTCC Online Search Clinic:
Chemicals and Drugs in PubMed
 1 hour long clinic on Aug 23
 Recorded and available to view (including
transcript) at
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/clinics/chem.html
140 registered sites participated
Positive responses, planning for additional
workshops in 2008.
Unified Medical Language System
(UMLS)
 New SNOMED CT licensing agreement put into place on
April 26, 2007.
 Transfer of ownership of SNOMED CT to the new
International Health Terminology Standards
Development Organisation (IHTSDO).
 NLM is the U.S. member and
founding member of IHTSDO.
DailyMed
 Provides high quality information about
marketed drugs.
 Includes FDA approved labels (package
inserts).
 3,313 approved prescription drugs included in
the database.
 Additional legislative requirements for linking
to FDA data may happen.
Specialized Information Services
(SIS)
 New design for ChemIDplus (April 2007)
Including a new search feature for quick access to
salts and hydrates
 New TOXMAP release (Aug 2007)
New search features, including user created
geographic regions, and other new search options
(Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) facility
name/ID, release medium, release year
ranges, release amount, Superfund (NPL)
site name/ID, and Hazard Ranking
System (HRS) score).
Information for Veterinarians
 NLM, NAL, USAIN, AVMA, MLA
 Developing a web portal
 Obtain feedback from veterinarians, librarians
Focus groups at 2007 AVMA Conference
MLA VMLS
AgNIC
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New Digital Collection from HMD
Thank you!