As taught at the Washington Medical Librarians Association meeting, March 24, 2011 in Kenmore, Washington.

1. Now that’s a horse of a different color… Third-Party Tools Photo credit: dianecordellon flickr

2. Agenda start end

3. Agenda Introductions 1 end

4. Agenda Introductions 1 2 end PubMed

5. Agenda Introductions APIs 1 2 3 end PubMed

6. Agenda Introductions APIs 1 2 3 4 end Case Studies PubMed

7. Agenda Introductions Group Projects APIs 1 2 3 4 5 end Case Studies PubMed

8. Agenda Introductions Group Projects APIs 1 2 3 4 5 6 end Case Studies Discussion PubMed

9. Agenda Introductions Group Projects APIs Evaluation 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 end Case Studies Discussion PubMed

10. By you will be able to… Describe the history of end-user access to MEDLINE Name and develop search strategies for at least three* third-party PubMed tools Identify situations in which searching with a third-party tool would be beneficial Stay current with new developments related to third-party PubMed tools

11. How we got here A brief history of end-user access to MEDLINE

12. 1897: First volume of Index Medicuspublished.

13. 1964: MEDLARS became operational Computer room at the National Library of Medicine, 1960s

14. 1971: MEDLINE (“MEDLARS online”) provides online access to a subset of references Texas Instruments Silent 700 with Acoustic Coupler

15. 1986: Health professionals started running their own searches with PC-based Grateful Med

16. 1997: PubMed is born! Free Web-based access to MEDLINE

17. 1997: PubMed is born! Free Web-based access to MEDLINE

18. Today 20 million article citations and counting More than 5,000 journals indexed Goes back in time to the 1940’s Searched 1.6 billion times in 2010

19. 2002: NLM says “take our data, too!” Entrez Programming Utilities (Eutils) introduced

20. Drive traffic to your data, not your website! -David Hale, NIH your website! PubMed API (eUtils) API = Application Programming Interface Makes data available for use in other programs or interfaces

21. Alternatives SLIM v.2

22. Agenda Introductions You are here APIs 1 2 3 4 end Case Studies PubMed

23. Case Studies

24. Themes Relevance Visualization Mobile access Simplification

25. Research Question What is the role of vitamin D in preventing or alleviating the symptoms of multiple sclerosis? http://pubmed.gov

26. eTBlast Developed by: Virginia Biometrics Institute Claim to fame: Analyzes large chunks of text http://etest.vbi.vt.edu/etblast3/

30. Developed by: Biomedical informaticist Jeff Saffer & molecular toxicologist Vicki Burnett Claim to fame: Search results based on relationships; Power Terms™ http://www.quertle.info/v2/

33. Themes Relevance Visualization Mobile Access Simplification

34. LigerCat Developed by: Biology of Aging project at Marine Biological Laboratory – Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library Claim to fame: Produces tag clouds based on MeSH headings http://ligercat.ubio.org/

35. Runs MeSH search directly in PubMed

37. PubAnatomy Developed by: National Center for Integrative Bioinformatics, University of Michigan Claim to fame: Maps the journal literature to brain anatomy and gene expression correlations http://www.ncibi.org/gateway/pubanatomy.html

38. PubAnatomy

39. Ali Baba Developed by: InstitutfürInformatik, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin Claim to fame: Graphically summarizes search results to reveal relationships and associations http://alibaba.informatik.hu-berlin.de/

40. Ali Baba What are the risk factors of treating G6PD-deficient malaria patiens with primaquine?

41. Themes Semantic searching Visualization Mobile Access Simplification

42. PubMed Mobile Beta Developed by: National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine Claim to fame: Simplified access to basic PubMed features http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/

43. PubMed Mobile Beta

44. PubMed for Handhelds NOT Developed by: Lister Hill Center, National Library of Medicine Claim to fame: Unique search options - PICO, askMEDLINE, disease associations http://pubmedhh.nlm.nih.gov/

45. PubMed for Handhelds

46. PubMed Mobile (Android) Developed by: CRinUS Claim to fame: The best PubMed app for Android so far http://www.cyrket.com/p/android/com.bim.pubmed/

47. PubMed CLIP (iPhone) Developed by: Groupnet Corporation Claim to fame: Lots of options for saving and sharing references. http://www.groupnet.co.jp/products/pubmedclip/en/

48. Themes Semantic searching Visualization Mobile Access Simplification

49. Developed by: A Boston clinical pathologist who founded PubGet, Inc. Claim to fame: Better than your library’s link resolver at retrieving PDFs http://pubget.com/

52. iPubMed Developed by: Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and Tsinghua University, China Claim to fame: Fast, fuzzy searches. http://ipubmed.ics.uci.edu/

54. Group Exercises

55. Pick a card… In groups of 2 or 3, explore a third-party PubMed tool and prepare to report: Developer(s) Key features When you’d use it Negative aspects

56. Discussion Questions

57. What ideas from third-party developers should NCBI adopt for PubMed?

58. Which third-party tool(s) are you likely to use again? In what circumstances?

59. Thank you! Alison Aldrich NN/LM PNR http://nnlm.gov/pnr (800) 338-7657 aldrich3@uw.edu