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INside OUTreach

OUTREACH 2003 - WHAT'S AHEAD?

The New Year brings thoughts of renewal and revitalization, the opportunity to be or start something new. So, what's ahead for Outreach in this New Year? Will it be out with the old, in with the new?

• An overview class on the "other" NCBI Databases - Nucleotide, Protein, Genome, Structure, etc. Last November, I was fortunate to be able to attend "Introduction to Molecular Biology Information Resources," the three day training session at NLM. The class, taught by Renata Geer, MLS, and Donna Messersmith, PhD, was excellent. I learned a lot and will be putting together an overview class on these databases. Look for this in 2003.
• Advanced PubMed. Several of the Outreach & Education Coordinators from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine are working at putting together an Advanced PubMed class designed for people who have been using PubMed successfully and want to learn more about it. If all goes as planned, the class will be available by spring of 2003 and will be approved for MLA Continuing Education credits.
• The Education and Training Committee of the RAC (the Regional Advisory Committee), a planning arm of the NER, has started work on collecting information about how we can best serve the region in the area of Education/Training. If anyone has thoughts they would like to share about this, please feel free to contact me by email or phone, since I am the NER liaison to that committee. We'd love to hear from you.
• PubMed classes, Docline training, LinkOut presentations, and Consumer Health classes continue to be available in 2003. If your institution would be willing to host a class in 2003, please contact the NER and we'll set a date. We provide the instructor and the training materials - you provide the location. If that's not a good deal, I don't know what is! As always, our training classes are offered free of charge.
• Look for new content in the Outreach section of the NER website coming in 2003!
• And, as always, the NER staff will be available to do presentations and exhibits at local and regional meetings. If you're planning a consortia meeting or you're involved in a regional group and you're looking for speakers or exhibitors, please contact the NER.

So, there are some new things coming during 2003 and some not so new things. Looking forward to a great year working with you all!

NOTEWORTHY

From the NLM Technical Bulletin:

Many of you have noticed the changes made recently to the PubMed database. One of those changes was the disappearance of the old Journal Browser and the debut of the new Entrez Journals Database. See the article in PubMed Particulars this month for detailed information about the Journals Database.

One of the other changes involved the addition of the "Send to" button as a means for putting citations on the Clipboard, displaying citations in a text-only format, and saving citations to a computer file. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd02/nd02_pm_changes.html

The Limits in PubMed have changed, too. The age groupings have changed slightly. The subsets have also changed - "In process" and "Publisher" have been removed. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd02/nd02_limits.html

MEDLINE data changes are summarized, also. These changes may or may not have an effect on the way you search but you may wish to familiarize yourself with the changes. This includes changes to the "Child" section of the MeSH tree. From now on, "Child" will search "Child" and "Child, Preschool" but NOT "Adolescent" or any of the Infant groups. Read more about this at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd02/nd02_2003_medline_data_changes.html

Changes to MeSH for 2003 are summarized, too. See: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd02/nd02_2003_mesh.html

Donna Berryman, Outreach Coordinator