From Here to There (And Back Again)

From Here to There (And Back Again) Linking at the NLM

MEDLINE Usage

PubMed and Friends MEDLINE Citations to Articles in 4,000 Biomedical Journals Selected by an Expert Panel Subject Specialists Add NLM s Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) to Each Citation

PubMed and Friends MEDLINE Citations to Articles in 4,000 Biomedical Journals Selected by an Expert Panel Subject Specialists Add NLM s Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) to Each Citation PubMed MEDLINE Database Plus Supplementary Material From Some MEDLINE Journals A Component of a Larger Retrieval System,

From There to Here PubMed has full MEDLINE With Links to Publishers PubMed Daily Averages: Over 120,000 Users, 800,000 Searches Links MEDLINE Subset to Sequence Databases MEDLINE Via TTY PC-based Front-End to MEDLINE MEDLINE on the Web Early 70s Mid 80s Early 90s Mid 90s 1997 1999 2000

More Friends of PubMed PubRef Extends PubMed Database to All Scientific Fields, but Without NLM Indexing and Quality Control Requested by U.S. National Academy of Sciences on behalf of some Scientific Journal Publishers PubMed Central Free Access to Full Text of Life Science Research Articles and Supporting Data

PubMed MEDLINE Query

PubMed Linking Articles PubMed Citation or or Abstract

PubMed Linking Articles Sequences, Structures, Genomes, etc. etc. Various IDs PubMed Citation or or Abstract

PubMed Linking Articles Sequences, Structures, Genomes, etc. etc. Various IDs PubMed Citation or or Abstract Book Sections Internal ID

PubMed Linking Articles Sequences, Structures, Genomes, etc. etc. Various IDs 3rd Party Provider PubMed Other Resources Citation or or Abstract Provider-defined Link (URL) Complete Article Book Sections Internal ID Publisher / 3rd Party Provider

PubMed Linking Articles Sequences, Structures, Genomes, etc. etc. Various IDs 3rd Party Provider Publisher / 3rd Party Provider PubMed Other Resources References in in Article Citation or or Abstract Provider-defined Link (URL) Complete Article Book Sections Internal ID Publisher / 3rd Party Provider

Direct Link to Publisher

NLM s Online Publishing Venture Ready to Launch Science Magazine Sept. 1999

NIH s Responsibility Facilitating the input of SGML-tagged content from submitters Developing technology for enhanced retrieval, presentation, and navigation Improving the access to and utility of content in PubMed Central for other information resources, publishers, and database groups Coordinating with the repository efforts of international partners in the system Archiving the content and working to guarantee accessibility in the future

PubMed Central Advisory Committee Joshua Lederberg, Rockefeller Univ. (Chair) Patrick Brown, Stanford Univ. Nicholas Cozzarelli, U.C. Berkeley Uta Francke, Stanford Univ. Paul Ginsparg, Los Alamos National Laboratory Michael Homan, Mayo Foundation Elizabeth Marincola, American Society of Cell Biology Suzanne McInerney, Public Member James Neal, Johns Hopkins Univ. Maurice Rabb, University of Illinois Richard Roberts, New England Biolabs Vitek Tracz, Current Science Group Harold Varmus, Memorial Sloane- Kettering James Williams, University of Colorado Henry Friesen, Medical Research Council of Canada (ad hoc) George Radda, Medical Research Council, UK (ad hoc)

Criteria for Journal Participation Journals currently indexed by the major abstracting and indexing services Organizations with at least 3 members who are principle investigators on research grants from major funding agencies and foundations

Participating Journals Current Journals Molecular Biology of the Cell PNAS: The Proceedings of the National Academy of Science Upcoming Journals Biochemical Journal Canadian Medical Association Journal British Medical Journal 5 Journals Current Science 2 Journals American Society for Plant Physiology Laboratory Investigation