LinkOut Update

Medical Library Association

Annual Meeting 2005

San Antonio, TX

LinkOut for Libraries links users directly from PubMed citations to library holdings – electronic full-text and print

What is for Libraries?

LinkOut Participants

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LibrariesAll Providers

Full Text Links from over 4660 PubMed Journals

All PubMed Citations

23%

7%

70%

Full Text Free Full Text To go!

From 1999

65%15%

20%

Full Text Free Full Text To go!

All LinkOut Links

99% of PubMed Citations have a LinkOut link!

99%

1%

LinkOut Usage

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in millions

Link attributes are represented

by icons

Improved layout and grouping of links make resources

easier to find.

Listing of libraries helps users quickly

find local library holdings

New Developments: LinkOut Display

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?holding=medlib_fft

• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?holding=ucrlib

Without _fft

• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?holding=ucrlib_fft

With _fft

• 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?holding=ucrlib

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/scm.cgi?holding=ucrlib

New Developments: Activate Icons

For more information about using Special URLs, see “Localizing Entrez/PubMed Services with Special URLs”

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

University of California, Riverside

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

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.

Example

• University of California, Riverside, uses LinkOut, Outside Tool, and Document Delivery Service

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?holding=ucrlib&otool=cdlotool&tool=cdl

LinkOut

Outside Tool

Document Delivery Service

Outside Tool LinkOut

Local E-Journal

Subscriptions

Outside Tool

LinkOut

Free Full Text

Outside Tool

LinkOut

in your library

Document Delivery Service

LinkOut Home Page: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/linkout/

Contact LinkOut: lib-linkout@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov