LinkOut Update

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LinkOut Update

• Medical Library Association
• Annual Meeting 2005
• San Antonio, TX

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What is for Libraries?
LinkOut for Libraries links users directly from
PubMed citations to library holdings electronic
full-text and print
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LinkOut Participants
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Full Text Links from over 4660 PubMed Journals
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All LinkOut Links
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LinkOut Usage
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New Developments LinkOut Display
Improved layout and grouping of links make
resources easier to find.
Link attributes are represented by icons
Listing of libraries helps users quickly find
local library holdings
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New Developments _fft

• Libraries may want to apply library icon to free
  full text citations, clearly marking them as
  available to users.
• Automatically apply library icons to citations
  with free full-text links.
• http//www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?hold
  ingmedlib_fft

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Without _fft

• http//www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?hold
  ingucrlib

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With _fft

• http//www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?hold
  ingucrlib_fft

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New Developments Activate Icons

• Some users may wish to bypass the main PubMed
  screen when performing searches in Clinical
  Queries and Single Citation Matcher.
• Activate icons through direct links to Clinical
  Queries and Single Citation Matcher
• http//www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/clinicalx.cgi?h
  oldingucrlib
• http//www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/scm.cgi?holdin
  gucrlib

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For more information about using Special URLs,
see Localizing Entrez/PubMed Services with
Special URLs
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New Developments Display Library Holdings as
Filter Tabs

• LinkOut Filters in My NCBI
• Activate LinkOut icons
• Display library holdings as a filter tab in
  PubMed search results

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University of California, Riverside
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Localizing PubMed

• Connecting users to local library services
  directly from PubMed localizes the PubMed
  display.
• Combine linking features to localize PubMed for
  your users
• LinkOut
• Document Delivery Service
• Outside Tool

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Point to Local Resources

• Document Delivery Service order articles
  directly from a local document delivery service.
• Outside Tool a link on every PubMed record.
  Used to access full-text through a local service.

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Example

• University of California, Riverside, uses
  LinkOut, Outside Tool, and Document Delivery
  Service
• http//www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?hold
  ingucrlibotoolcdlotooltoolcdl

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LinkOut
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Outside Tool
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Document Delivery Service
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in your library
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LinkOut Home Page http//www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ent
rez/linkout/ Contact LinkOut lib-linkout_at_ncbi.nlm
.nih.gov