Highlights of the July - August 2004 issue of the NLM Technical Bulletin
NLM Training Program: 2005
Check out this article for a listing of NLM online searching training classes, including course descriptions. For a list of course offerings in the Pacific Southwest Region, go to the Regional Training Schedule.
PubMed News
- No more keyboarding! As of June 29, 2004, keyboarding is no longer used to get articles into PubMed. This is due to a combination of new technologies, including scanning and optical character recognition and direct electronic submission of citation data direct from publishers into MEDLINE. Just eight years ago, all data was keyboarded. Last issue we celebrated the end of print IM; this issue we lay direct keyboarding to rest for all time.
- A new version of the PubMed Tutorial has been released. Click on the link on the left sidebar. New tutorials are coming to PubMed Help. Soon you will see animated tutorials for subject and author searching. PubMed already has animated tutorials about MeSH and Cubby.
- PubMed now includes over 15 million citations. Over 2.2 million searches are conducted each day.
- More titles, including a small number of clinical titles, are being added to the Bookshelf. Now is a good time to become familiar with how to search the Bookshelf if you have not already done so.
MedlinePlus News
A new hospital search feature is now available in the directory section of MedlinePlus. You can search by hospital name, city or zip code. The data, which comes from the American Hospital Association, includes address and telephone, web site, hospital type, specialty, system, network, number of beds, JCAHO accreditation, and services provided. A map is included, and a MapQuest feature allows one to get directions to the hospital from any location you type in. Check out this feature for a hospital you know.
NLM at MLA
This issue includes all of the presentations from NLM at the MLA 2004 meeting in Washington DC. This section should be required reading for all health sciences librarians! Go to http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja04/ja04_issue_cover.html for the complete listing.
American Indian Health
NLM launched this new site. If you serve Native Americans, check it out at http://americanindianhealth.nlm.nih.gov/.