NLM UpdateNAHSL Annual MeetingOctober 30, 2007

Martha R. FishelChief, Public Services Division

National Library of Medicine

National Institutes of Health

Department of Health & Human Services

What’s Happening at NLM

New Supervisory StaffBudgetDisaster ManagementWhat’s going on at NLMQuestions

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New Staff at NLMNew Staff at NLM

Lisa LangHead, NICHSR; and Assistant Director, Health Services Research Information

Shana PotashPublic Affairs Specialist, OCPL

Joyce BackusDeputy ChiefPublic Services Division

Paula KitendaughHead, Reference and Web Services

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New Staff at NLMNew Staff at NLM

Steve PhillipsAssociate Director Division of Specialized Information Services

NLM/NIH Budget

FY2005, FY2006 – Flat budget

FY2007 – Decreased Budget

FY2008 – Decreased Budget

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FY08 Appropriations

Anticipated Appropriations LanguageNIH 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 DatabaseEstablishment 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

MedlinePlusMedlinePlus en españolGo LocalNew Search EngineAdditional Topics

MedlinePlus: What’s New

MedlinePlus: What’s New

Announcement about new MedlinePlus topics, podcasts, featured sites

Items display for 3 weeksRSS feed availableComplements the current MedlinePlus Health

News RSS, which delivers press announcements and HealthDay news stories

MedlinePlus Health Topic Pages

Pages redesigned based on usability studiesChanging long list of links with lots of

scrollingLots 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

OutreachPublic Service Announcements

Su condición médica - Your Medical ConditionSer más saludable - Staying HealthyPreguntas a su pediatra – Questions for your

pediatricianMedicinas recetadas – Prescription medicationMida 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 12TV PSA’s aired 9,407 timesEstimated viewers: 68 Million

Impact on Usage in Select U.S. Cities

Usage statistics for July, compared to pre-campaign (March) usage: Los Angeles: up 25% New York City: up 12% Marina Del Rey, CA: up 182% Phoenix: up 27%

PSA link Spanish with English subtitleshttp://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/outreach/donfrancisco.html

Vivisimo Search Engine, October 2007

Selected Resource Spotlight

Health TopicSummary and Image

Spell checker

Better Synonyms

View All Results or by Collection

Search Words in Context

Multiple browsing capabilities

Hundreds of real examples

Keyword searchable

26 chapters

Easy-to-use instructions

NISO bibliographic standards, explained!

Go Local - Growing

New Go Local projects, Oct ’06- Sept ’07

Nebraska: Oct 2006 Michigan: Jan 2007Minnesota: 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

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DOCLINE TodayDOCLINE Today

3,1663,166 libraries participating libraries participating Over Over 1.47 million1.47 million serial holdings records serial holdings records 2.31 million2.31 million ILL Requests in FY06 ILL Requests in FY06 Fill Rate is Fill Rate is 92.2% 92.2% Average number of routes is Average number of routes is 1.241.24

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DOCLINE LibrariesDOCLINE LibrariesPublic

170.54%

Other527

16.65%

Hospital2,056

63.34%

Academic606

19.14%

(Federal and special

libraries)

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Network Delivery MethodsNetwork Delivery Methods

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Ariel Email PDF Email TIFF Fax Mail Web PDF Web TIFF

40 Day Snapshots

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EFTS – working toward self sufficiency Increasing market share – increase

marketing efforts with RMLs, promotional materials available

Decreasing expensesRollout of Canadian currency conversion

featureSimplify billing with File Builder within

DOCLINEFee increase for lenders

Technical Services Division

Open WorldCatNLM now a participantLocatorPlus entries link “Find other libraries that

own this” WorldCat links to NLM holdings

Title AbbreviationsUsing abbreviations created by the International

Standard Serial Number (ISSN) CentreModified to conform to NLM standards on

punctuation and capitalization

Digital Repository Planning

NLM Digital Repository Working Group January 2007 functional specificationsPolicy and management issues

2nd phase underway Evaluate commercial systems and open

source softwareGoal: 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

OLDMEDLINEMapping 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

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MedMaster on the NCBI BookshelfMedMaster on the NCBI Bookshelf

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 participatedPositive 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).

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Information for Veterinarians

NLM, NAL, USAIN, AVMA, MLADeveloping a web portalObtain feedback from veterinarians, librarians

Focus groups at 2007 AVMA ConferenceMLA VMLSAgNIC

New Digital Collection from HMD

Thank you!