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by Susan Barnes, Resource Sharing Coordinator
NN/LM Pacific Northwest Region
In the first sections of this series we discussed ways to make the most of the free full text in NLM's PubMed Central through searching the PMC site, through searching PubMed and limiting retrieval to PMC journals, and through using your library's LinkOut icon. LinkOut can also be used to point to even more free full text: HighWire Press is a LinkOut provider, and HighWire Press also provides open access to back issues of several of its titles. The list of titles from which free full text is available is linked from the HighWire Press home page at http://highwire.stanford.edu:
You can use your library's LinkOut icon to point your patrons to
this free full text. It's a good way to extend LinkOut for easy
access to more ejournal content, while providing even more
publicity for your library. Using your own institution's icon as
a pointer reinforces your library's visibility and minimizes
unnecessary interlibrary loan and Loansome Doc requests. If you
are already using LinkOut to provide one-click access from PubMed
to articles in ejournals for which subscription fees are paid,
you can make life even easier for your users by using your
library's icon to connect to articles that have full text
available from HighWire Press. Your users, who have grown used to
clicking on their library's LinkOut icons, can then find
themselves led to even more articles through using their
already-established habits.
HighWire Press, as a LinkOut journal provider, has all of its titles listed in your LinkOut Holdings Utility. All you need to do is enter your library's holdings for HighWire titles in the same way you have entered your holdings from other ejournal publishers or vendors. In this case, select titles that you do not receive from HighWire or any other source. (Remember, LinkOut will only recognize one provider per journal per library.) Next, select the range of years for which open access is provided. Your icon will then appear with PubMed citations-in the Abstract and Citation displays-from those HighWire titles (in addition to any HighWire titles to which you subscribe).
To begin, look at the list of HighWire titles for which free full text is available and make note of which titles to register in your LinkOut holdings:
Then, log in to the LinkOut Holdings Utility, choose HighWire Press from the full text provider list, select the titles for which you want your icon to display. Use the delay box to record the time that elapses before open access becomes available:
In this example, the library's icon will display with PubMed citations from Academic Medicine and Age and ageing after the delay periods expire.
Other articles in this series:
Dragonfly, Spring 2003 - Volume 34 Number 2
(posted on PNRNews on June 24, 2003)
by Susan Barnes, Resource Sharing Coordinator
NN/LM Pacific Northwest Region
PubMed Central provides access to free full text from more than 100 electronic journals. Did you know that you can use your library's LinkOut icon to point your patrons to this free full text? It's a good way to extend LinkOut for easy access to more ejournal content, while providing even more publicity for your library. Of course, these full text articles are already available through clicking on PubMed's publisher and "Free Full Text Article in PubMed Central" icons, but using your own institution's icon as a pointer reinforces your library's visibility.
LinkOut for Libraries connects PubMed users to the full text of their libraries' ejournals. (It also points from PubMed references to libraries' print journal collections via the LinkOut-SERHOLD interface, but the focus here is on electronic full text.) Many libraries use LinkOut to provide one-click access from PubMed to articles in ejournals for which subscription fees are paid. The resulting seamless path from searching PubMed to reading articles makes life easier for these libraries' users. (For more information, see the Library LinkOut Survival Guide at http://nnlm.gov/libinfo/ejournals/linkout/)
Now you can take LinkOut one step further and use your library's icon to confirm which articles have full text available from PubMed Central. Your users, who have grown used to clicking on their library's LinkOut icons, can then find themselves led to even more articles through using their already-established habits. PubMed Central is a LinkOut journal provider, with all of its titles listed in your LinkOut Holdings Utility. All you need to do is enter your library's holdings for PubMed Central titles in the same way you have entered your holdings from other ejournal publishers or vendors. In this case, select all dates for the PMC titles that you do not receive from another source. (Remember, LinkOut will only recognize one provider per journal per library.) Your icon will then appear with PubMed citations-in the Abstract and Citation displays-from PubMed Central titles.
For example, log in to the LinkOut Holdings Utility, choose PubMed Central from the full text provider list, and select all dates for the PMC titles for which you want your library's icon to display:
In this example, the library's icon will display with PubMed citations from Plant physiology and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. The dates for which the icon will display will default to those for which free full text is available in PubMed Central. These are two of the journals for which content is viewed directly from the PMC Web site.
Remember, though, that some PMC titles-the PubLink titles-are made available at publishers' Web sites, and that there is a delay in availability of free full text for some of these. You can find information about that delay period by clicking from a PubLink title to one of its most recent articles. For example, the link to an article from the most recent issue of Journal of Virology indicates that content is made available free for all users 6 months after publication. You would indicate that when editing LinkOut holdings by selecting "6 mos" in the delay box.
Other articles in this series:
Dragonfly, Spring 2003- Volume 34 Number 2
(posted on PNRNews on June 16, 2003)
Now that Memorial Day has come and gone, our thoughts turn to summer vacation. Plan to give your DOCLINE account a vacation when you're away. When no one is available to do DOCLINE processing for 5 or more working days, you can have the RML temporarily deactivate your account so that no requests route to your library.
Just use the DOCLINE Hold Request Form on the Web at http://nnlm.gov/libinfo/docline/dochold.html.
We'll need your LIBID, name, institution, phone number, and email
address in addition to the beginning and ending dates of the hold
period.
Dragonfly, Spring 2003 - Volume 34 Number2
(posted on PNRNews June 12, 2003)
If your library is using Netscape 4.x (that is, any release of
Netscape 4) with DOCLINE, it is time to move to another version
or another browser. As of June 15, 2003, the National Library of
Medicine will no longer support Netscape 4.x for DOCLINE access.
What does that mean? It doesn't mean that suddenly, on June 15,
you will no longer be able to do your DOCLINE processing. But it
does mean that, if you have any problems with your browser, and
you are using Netscape 4.x, NLM and the RML will not be able to
provide much help. And, as DOCLINE improvements are made over
time, the likelihood increases that indeed one day, suddenly, you
will no longer be able to do your DOCLINE processing. That day
might be quite soon, in fact, because DOCLINE v1.6 - the new
release that implements the SERHOLD-OCLC Batch Transfer (see
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/services/faqdocline.html#serholdbatchupdate)
- is scheduled for the beginning of July.
Supported browsers for DOCLINE access include Netscape 7, Internet Explorer 6.x or Internet Explorer 5.5 SP2 (Service Pack 2). Netscape 6 continues to be unsupported for DOCLINE use due to numerous issues with this browser version.
DOCLINE system requirements and browser settings are at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/docline/system_requirements.html#system
Dragonfly, Spring 2003- Volume 34 Number 2
(posted on PNRNews on June 9, 2003)
by Susan Barnes, Resource Sharing Coordinator
NN/LM Pacific Northwest Region
PubMed Central is one of the subsets available from PubMed's Limits screen. Using this subset produces the same results as combining PubMed search terms with pubmed pmc local [sb]. In other words, choosing the PubMed Central subset from the Limits screen and then entering these search terms: west nile virus
is the same as this search in PubMed: west nile virus AND pubmed pmc local [sb]
As was discussed in Part I of this series, these citations link to full text articles that are viewable directly from PubMed Central, as indicated by the "Free Full Text Article in PubMed Central" icon to the left of each citation.
To include PMC articles with full text viewed at publishers' Web sites, combine PubMed search terms with pubmed pmc [sb] as in: west nile virus AND pubmed pmc [sb]
A bigger set of citations is retrieved. They do not all display the "Free Full Text Article in PubMed Central" icon because some are from PMC journals that are PubLink - their contents are viewable from the publishers' Web sites rather than directly at the PubMed Central Web site. Although most PubLink articles are available free of charge, some of the most recent ones are embargoed in order to maintain subscription income (as mentioned in Part I of this series of articles), and are only available to subscribers.
Other articles in this series:
Dragonfly, Spring 2003 - Volume 34 Number 2
(posted on PNRNews on June 3, 2003)
DOCLINE libraries will very soon be able to list their serial holdings in OCLC WorldCat, automatically and free of charge, through the batch file transfer service that has been developed by NLM and OCLC. This is an excellent way to assist your fellow librarians in non-health science libraries which do not have access to DOCLINE. If you decide to participate, you will be helping your local library colleagues obtain articles from health journals for their patrons-thereby contributing to better availability of health information for the public.
It's easy to participate! If you library has its own OCLC code, just go to your DOCUSER record, select the "Codes" tab, and, in the Batch Update Authorization field, select "NLM is authorized to send a copy of my library's holdings to OCLC" -- and then, this July, your SERHOLD holdings data will be batched into a file and sent to OCLC. Updates that you make after that will then be sent to OCLC on a quarterly basis. Make this simple change to your DOCUSER record today, so that your library's data are included in the first batch transfer, scheduled to take place shortly after the 4th of July holiday.
Unfortunately, libraries that are part of a larger institution with one OCLC code (i.e., MWF) with multiple holding library codes for each "branch" (for example, MWFA and MWFB) can not participate in this service. This is because the batch transfer would delete holdings for other units that share that same OCLC code. NLM has provided details about this at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/services/doc_batch_update_serholdtooclc_multiple_oclcids.html
For more information about the SERHOLD to OCLC Batch Update, see the FAQ at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/services/faqdocline.html#serholdbatchupdate
SPECIAL NOTE FOR OREGON AND WASHINGTON LIBRARIES:
You who are in Oregon and Washington medical libraries will
remember that before DOCLINE migrated to the Web and the
Washington Library Network (WLN) database was merged into the
OCLC WorldCat database (independent events that happened at about
the same time, just before the turn of the century), your SERHOLD
holdings data were automatically transferred into WLN (for
Washington) and OCLC (for Oregon). Oregon and Washington
libraries had a long-standing tradition of sharing their holdings
information with their colleagues in other types of
libraries.
This new SERHOLD to OCLC Batch Update service will allow you to share your library's holdings information with your communities once again. And now, all other DOCLINE libraries can join in this sharing. However, your participation in this SERHOLD to OCLC Batch Update will not be automatic, even if you formerly shared your SERHOLD data with WLN or OCLC. You must update your DOCUSER record in order to participate-and now is the time to do it, so that your holdings are transferred this coming July.
SPECIAL THANKS to the task force members who helped lobby OCLC to work with NLM on developing this service (see "SERHOLD and the Public's Access to Health Information: An Update" in Dragonfly, Spring 2001, http://nnlm.gov/pnr/news/200104/serhold.html) and to the libraries that served as beta test sites:
Dragonfly, Spring 2003- Volume 34 Number 2
(posted on PNRNews on May 30, 2003)
by Susan Barnes, Resource Sharing Coordinator
NN/LM Pacific Northwest Region
If you haven't looked at PubMed Central lately, now is a good
time to pay it a visit. This digital archive of peer-reviewed
research articles, editorials and essays has grown substantially
since it began in February, 2000 with just two titles,
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
and Molecular Biology of the Cell. PMC currently
provides free and unrestricted access to full text from more than
160 life sciences journals, with more to come. View the list of
PMC journals -- and access the contents -- at http://pubmedcentral.gov, where
you will also find the list of journals to be added soon.
The currency and start date of free full text in PubMed Central vary by journal. A publisher may make its journal available in PMC immediately after publication, or it may delay release for a specified period. Current PMC journals have delays ranging up to two years, with most releasing their material six months or less after publication. In most cases, publishers that do not immediately release their journals in PMC are balancing the benefits of open access with concerns for preservation of subscription income.
To conduct a simple search of the PMC digital archive, go to http://pubmedcentral.gov, where you will find a search box near the top of the page. At that same location, you can view the table of contents for the most recent available issue of a PMC journal. Just click on a journal name. You can also see a list of all available issues of any title by clicking on its "Archive Starts With" link.
For more complex searches that take full advantage of Entrez capabilities, go to http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PMC -- or avoid the long url by selecting PMC from the Search pulldown menu at the top of the Entrez screen. When you search PMC from this location, you can use Limits, Preview/Index, History, Clipboard, and Details; you can also sort your retrieval and use links to other NCBI databases. You'll find, though, that the ways to limit retrieval, the links, the displays, the sorting abilities, and the behavior of automatic term mapping in PMC are different from PubMed. Consult the PubMed Central Help and FAQ for details.
View articles by clicking on links in the PMC citations. The full text of [PubLink] citations is viewed at publishers' own Web sites. Citations displaying the [Abstract][Full Text][PDF] links point to full text viewed directly from PubMed Central.
Other articles in this series:
Dragonfly, Spring 2003- Volume 34 Number 2
(posted on PNRNews on May 23, 2003)
by Elaine Graham, Associate Director
Pacific Southwest Regional Medical Library (PSRML)
(reprinted with permission from
Latitudes,newsletter of the PSRML,
May/June 2003, volume 12, issue 3)
Regional Medical Library (RML) directors and staff joined National Library of Medicine (NLM) staff for an "all-RML" meeting prior to the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting in San Diego, California. Approximately 70 staff members from the eight RMLs were present to hear an update from NLM, and to discuss DOCLINE future enhancements, ILL costs, electronic journals, the National Online Training Center and Clearinghouse, and outreach evaluation collaboration. Following the general session, smaller breakout discussion groups gathered to consider issues in consumer health information, outreach and education, network services, and NN/LM planning.
Future of DOCLINE
Since December 2001, the DOCLINE Interface Review Team, comprised of NLM and RML staff members, has worked on the following goals: to identify and resolve user issues with DOCLINE; to improve ease of use; to eliminate inconsistencies; to increase user efficiency; to implement requested enhancements, and to integrate DOCINE with other NLM systems, whenever feasible and desirable. The comprehensive interface review of DOCLINE has been completed, and a phased project plan has been developed to accomplish DOCUSER redesign, requests redesign, SERHOLD redesign, and Loansome Doc redesign. The consensus at the RML Directors Meeting was that the plan for DOCLINE enhancement should be implemented as presented by the Interface Review Team. In addition, it was agreed that NLM's phased implementation of the ISO/ILL protocol should continue, due to the importance of the protocol for many of the large lending libraries in the NN/LM network. NLM staff will need to adjust the timeline for DOCLINE enhancements to accommodate the ISO/ILL protocol implementation.
ILL Questionnaire
A national survey on ILL costs was conducted between March 25 and April 9, 2003, with 866 responses from DOCLINE participants. The average number of items borrowed through DOCLINE was 1,520, and the average percentage of DOCLINE requests paid for was 37%. The average charge per request of DOCLINE borrow requests paid for was $9.98; the median as well as the mode charge was $11.00. (The ILL questionnaire also asked about FreeShare participation and satisfaction; those results are available on the PSRML web site at: http://nnlm.gov/psr/pres/ FreeShare to the Rescue!)
National Maximum ILL Charge
A number of NN/LM Resource Libraries across the country have reported that the national maximum charge of $11 for a filled DOCLINE request does not allow them to recover the costs of providing ILL service. The actual costs of providing ILL service can vary greatly from one library to another, reflecting differences due to factors such as volume of requests received and prevailing wage rates. Given these variations, it was decided that an NN/LM ILL cost study is not warranted. However, the data from the NN/LM ILL questionnaire, along with data that will be available from NN/LM Resource Libraries that are contributing to the Association of Research Libraries ILL study, will be useful in deciding an increase in the national maximum ILL charge. It was agreed that the national maximum charge will include electronic delivery; that is, an extra fee cannot be applied for electronic delivery, since it does not cause an interruption in workflow. Fax delivery may in many cases cause an interruption in workflow, and a surcharge is allowable for fax transmission.
Electronic Journals
Cost and access issues surrounding electronic journals continue to be concerns in planning and maintaining NN/LM network services. License agreements that restrict copying for ILLs to libraries or for unaffiliated health professionals are a particular concern. At least one major library has been able to negotiate licensing language that allows copying for requests related to a clinical emergency. RMLs and Resource Libraries that are part of larger systems may find it difficult to influence the content of systemwide licensing agreements. While some license agreements have language limiting disclosure of the pricing terms of the agreement, there was a question as to whether such a non-disclosure clause would be binding in the case of state and public institutions. NLM is studying approaches to improving access and visibility of open access publications; one idea is to have DOCLINE return a message when a request is transmitted for an article that is freely available in electronic form. (Currently, NLM notifies the requesting library when a DOCLINE request is received for an item that can be obtained directly at no cost.)
National Online Training Center (NTCC)
Public health and environmental workers are attending the NTCC courses in growing numbers; these participants are interested in learning about MeSH, as well as about the search interfaces. The number of course materials linked in the Educational Clearinghouse Database - http://nnlm.gov/train/ - is increasing; the RMLs and the NTCC will be doing additional promotion to raise awareness of this resource and to encourage additional entries. The NTCC expects to announce shortly the schedule for advanced training from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI); the course to be offered is designed specifically for information specialists who provide support to users of NCBI's molecular biology services. (PSRML will announce the schedule on the regional listserv.) NTCC is also planning to test a simultaneous videocast of a PubMed course later this year.
Outreach Evaluation
In the current contract year (Year 3), each RML will implement regional projects related to two national plans for outreach, one plan focusing on outreach to the public health workforce and the second plan on outreach to public libraries. The plans were developed as a collaborative effort among the RMLs and NLM; we will announce the web address of these plans as soon as they become available. The national plans are documented in the form of logic models, which outline objectives, activities, milestones, and outcomes. Logic models have been used increasingly as a tool by non-profit organizations to demonstrate the effectiveness of their program activities by initiating and completing outcome-oriented evaluation of projects. EG
Dragonfly, Spring 2003- Volume 34 Number 2
(posted on PNRNews on May 21, 2003)
New Web pages highlighting the characteristics and resources of the Pacific Northwest and the states of the region are now available at the NN/LM Pacific Northwest Region Web site.
Staff of the NN/LM PNR often have questions about the region and states that these pages are designed to answer. For example: How is the minority population of the region different from the U.S. as a whole? What parts of the region are designated frontier areas? Where are the Health Personnel Shortage Areas?
Since the RML occasionally has to look for answers to these and other questions about our region, we thought that others might find these pages useful as well. They could be helpful for regional network members applying for RML outreach grants, miniawards or funding from the RML, NLM, and other agencies and organizations. These pages will provide information to use when describing the characteristics, demographics, health status, and geographic area for a proposal. The series begins with "Regional Characteristics" which includes a demographic table for quick reference. Separate pages about Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington are linked from here. Each state page provides a description and map, along with selected links that describe the organization, populations and health status of the state.
The pages were researched and developed by Liisa Rogers, University of Washington Information School MLIS student, and graduate assistant for the NN/LM PNR, in consultation with PNR staff. The new "Regional Characteristics" address is: http://nnlm.gov/pnr/characteristics/
We hope you will find these resources both interesting and useful. Please send your comments and suggestions to: nnlm@u.washington.edu
Dragonfly, Spring 2003- Volume 34 Number 2
(posted on PNRNews on May 14, 2003)
By Gail Kouame
Consumer Health Coordinator, NN/LM PNR
This is the third in a series of articles highlighting five projects in the Pacific Northwest Region emphasizing "Access to Electronic Health Information." The projects received funding from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) with a maximum award of $40,000. For further information about funding opportunities, visit our web site at: http://nnlm.gov/pnr/funding/.
Empowering Parents of Children with Special Health Care Needs
The lead agency for this project is the Center for Children with Special Needs at Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center in Seattle, Washington. Children with special health care needs are those with chronic physical, developmental, behavioral or emotional conditions that require health services beyond those required by children generally.
The purpose of this project is to train parents of children with special health care needs to advance their skills and abilities in using the Internet to seek health information and resources. Parents of these children continually express the need for current, reliable information and to understand and be informed about resources locally, nationally, and internationally that will assist them in providing care, advocating for their children, and monitoring emerging health care research. In partnership with the Washington State Fathers Network and Washington State Parent to Parent Support Programs, and community public libraries, the Center for Children with Special Needs will develop a skills-based train-the-trainer curriculum with parent input that will provide the basis for the Internet training on accessing health information and resources.
The overall goal of the project is to train parents of children with special health care needs to advance their skills and abilities in using the Internet to seek health information and resources. In order to accomplish this goal, project partners will:
To learn more about the partnering agencies in this project, please visit their web pages:
Center for Children with Special Health Needs - http://www.cshcn.org/
Washington State Fathers Network - http://www.fathersnetwork.org/707.html
Washington State Parent to Parent Support Programs- http://www.arcwa.org/parent2parent.htm
Other articles in this series:Dragonfly, Spring 2003- Volume 34 Number 2
(posted on PNRNews on May 12, 2003)
by Gail Kouame
Consumer Health Coordinator, NN/LM PNR
This is the second in a series of articles highlighting five projects in the Pacific Northwest Region emphasizing "Access to Electronic Health Information." The projects received funding from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) with a maximum award of $40,000. For further information about funding opportunities, visit our web site at: http://nnlm.gov/pnr/funding.
Computer Health Literacy for Seniors in Northern Idaho
The sponsoring agency for this project is the Kootenai Medical Center (KMC) Library in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. In Kootenai County, the primary users of healthcare are senior citizens. They are also frequent patrons of the DeArmond Consumer Health Library at the Kootenai Medical Center.
The purpose of the Computer Health Literacy for Seniors project is to improve access to electronic health information resources by senior citizens living in northern Idaho. The DeArmond Consumer Health Library currently provides access to health information resources for the five northern counties of Idaho. The goals of this project are to:
Project partners include the Lake City Senior Center in Coeur d'Alene, the Post Falls Senior Center in Post Falls, the Rathdrum Senior Center in Rathdrum, and the Senior Striders. To find out more about the DeArmond Consumer Health library, you can visit their web site at: http://www.kmc.org/Services/dearmondlibrary.htm
Other articles in this series:Dragonfly, Spring 2003- Volume 34 Number 2
(posted on PNRNews on April 8, 2003)
Produced by the NN/LM PNR
Maryanne Blake, Editor
Michael Boer, Publication Manager
This publication is funded in whole with Federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, under Contract No. N01-LM-1-3516.
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