PubMed, the National Library of Medicine’s free resource for searching millions of biomedical journal citations and abstracts, has undergone a significant facelift. The redesigned version is now live at http://pubmed.gov.

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PubMed has undergone a significant facelift. Try the redesigned version here: http://preview.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed

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Congratulations to Dr. John Clarke, winner of the 2009 Flu Prevention PSA Contest sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Here is his winning entry:

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Formal scholarly communication is not traditionally a speedy process. The course from research to publication can take months or years. There are occasions, however, when an emergency situation compels publishers to pick up the pace so that researchers and decision-makers can communicate more rapidly. The H1N1 flu outbreak this year has been one of those situations. A number of publishers including the Public Library of Science (PLoS), EBSCO, and the Cochrane Collaboration have accelerated the pace of reviewing influenza information and made selected resources publicly available.

Rapid Research Notes is a new resource from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). It is a permanent public archive for resources released by publishers to facilitate faster communication among researchers, policymakers, and other stakeholders.

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The good people behind MedlinePlus, the National Library of Medicine’s popular resource for authoritative consumer health information, are now using Twitter. Follow them at http://twitter.com/medlineplus4you to get updates about new and interesting content on MedlinePlus and other health-related sites. Welcome to Twitter, @medlineplus4you !

MedlinePlus joins about thirty other agencies and programs in the Department of Health & Human Services that are officially tweeting. Here is a list of those accounts.

For an introduction to Twitter, see Look Who’s Tweeting, a PNR Technology Tuesday post from earlier this year, and for good advice about how to represent your organization on Twitter, read Twitter Best Practices from usa.gov.

Thank you for joining us during the PubMed Redesign Update web conference yesterday, August 11, 2009. We apologize if you were not able to join the meeting due to the 125 audio connection limitations, and for your patience during some rather odd audio disturbances during the session.

The audiovisual recording of the session that lasts just a little over a half hour is now available at https://webmeeting.nih.gov/p66847164/ PowerPoint slides from the Medical Library Association Online Users’ Meeting that are similar to yesterday’s presentation are available in the Editor’s Notes of the June 10, 2009 NLM Technical Bulletin

Questions and Answers from the session are available below for your review. Please do not hesitate to contact NCBI with your comments and suggestions at info@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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