From Health Professionals to Health Consumers: New Opportunities for the Medical Library Network

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From Health Professionals to Health
ConsumersNew Opportunities for the Medical
Library Network

• Becky J. Lyon
• CRICS V
• April 27, 2001

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• Web access to NLM services
• National and international partners
• NLM/PAHO/CRID project
• Health information for the public

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www.nlm.nih.gov
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MEDLINE

• First available in 1971
• 1976 contained 3.5 million citations
• 1980 became available to several other countries
• 11 million citations back to 1966
• Covers 4300 journals (158 in Spanish)
• 150,000 citations in Spanish

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NLM International MEDLARS Centers
Australia China France India Japan Mexico Sweden
Brazil Egypt Germany Israel Korea Russia Switzerland
Canada England Hong Kong Italy Kuwait S. Africa Taiwan
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MEDLINE Usage

• 1997 7 million searches
• 2001 330 million searches

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International Usage
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PubMed
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PubMed Tutorial
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Request Delivery

• PubMed Access to MEDLINE
• DOCLINE Online ILL system for 3,200 US
  Canadian libraries now international
• Loansome Doc Article ordering feature in
  PubMed

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DOCLINE FY 2000

• Total Requests 3 million
• US libraries 2,720,127
• Canada 236,988
• International 33,194
• DOCLINE libraries
• US libraries 2,911
• Canada 273
• International 37

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Loansome Doc
Users
Libraries
NLM
Search PubMed
PubMed and Loansome Doc Servers
Request
DOCLINE
Send Orders Using LD
User Registers with Library
Document sent to User
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Loansome Doc Requests

• FY 1997 311,447
• FY 1998 406,264
• FY 1999 448,752
• FY 2000 820,777
• US 92
• Canada 4
• International 4

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National Network of Libraries of Medicine
8 Regional Medical Libraries 140 Resource
Libraries in academic medical centers 4500
Primary Access Libraries
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Strengthen and expand global access to the
worlds health-related knowledge
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January 2001

• Expanding partnerships
• 37 organizations using DOCLINE
• 15 organizations providing LD service
• 3,000 LD articles supplied/month
• 27 US Universities provide Loansome Doc to
  international requesters

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International Loansome Doc Providers
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NLM Associate Fellowship
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Hurricane Mitch (1998)
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PAHO / NLM / CRID

• 1999 Special project
• Support
• Rebuild
• Improve
• Honduras Nicaragua
• Health information infrastructure

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PAHO/NLM/CRID

• Medical School of the Autonomous National
  University of Honduras-Tegucigalpa
• Centro Universitario Region Norte-San Pedro Sula
• Centro de Investigation y Estudios de la
  Salud-Managua
• Medical School of UNAN-Leon

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SIS/CRID FundaCRID

• Funding
• 250,000/yr X 2
• Training
• Costa Rica, NLM
• Technical support
• Computers
• Connectivity

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MEDLINE Usage

• 1997 7 million searches
• 2001 330 million searches
• 30 by the public

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Mhomepage
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Health Information for the PublicScope of NLM
Program

• Policy approved by NLM Board of Regents in May,
  1999
• Improve the national infrastructure that supports
  access to electronic health information for the
  public
• includes technical, organizational, and
  intellectual infrastructure

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MEDLINEplus Today

• Comprehensive health resource
• 445 topics (diseases, wellness issues)
• links to organizations, libraries, directories
• Drug information
• Encyclopedia
• News
• Over 6 million page hits/month

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MEDLINE Searches

• Canned searches created by NLM Reference Staff
• Tailored for the consumer
• current, English, clinical
• 20-70 references
• on selected aspects of topic
• Search PubMed each time

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Selection Guidelines

• Emphasize government resources - NIH
• Authoritative, accurate and well maintained
• Contact organizations about
• technical issues (frames)
• displaying advisory boards
• Links checked every night

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Links to International Sites
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blyon_at_nlm.nih.gov