LinkOut Kernel: keys to linking your collections to PubMed

Medical Library Association 2007Philadelphia

Lidia Hutcherson, NCBI/NLM

7 steps to set up LinkOut

1. Familiarize2. Organize3. Register 4. Enter Holdings5. Provide an icon 6. Activate7. Publicize

LinkOut key concepts

1. What is a full text Provider?2. Parent & Child links3. Article level-Journal level 4. LinkOut & SERHOLD holdings5. Activate icons 6. Publicize

Enter Holdings

Activate

Publicize

Problem:

“I have a license with the New England Journal of Medicine Online for its full text content – why is it not listed in the submission utility?”

Key 1: What is a full text provider?

A provider for LinkOut is any organization that provides LinkOut with links to full text

Providers for LinkOut: publishers,

aggregators, publisher agents

Key 1: What is a full text provider?

Publisher agent

The producer and host of the online version of journals (i.e., Highwire)

Do not manage library subscriptions

Problem: “I have a license with the New England Journal of Medicine Online for their full text content – why is it not listed in the submission utility?”

The full text provider listed for this journal in the submission utility is the Publisher Agent-Highwire

Key 1: What is a full text provider? Go to the LinkOut Display to check who

provides full text links to LinkOut

Problem:

“I have a license for the journal Psycho-Oncology, why are there no links for it in PubMed?”

Key 2: Parent & Child links

Full text links (Parent links) Full text links supplied by journal content

providers to LinkOut

Library links (Child links) Links in PubMed created by LinkOut for

libraries which point to the full-text at the provider website

Key 2: Parent & Child links

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Provider Full text links(Parent)

Library Information

LinkOut Links Formula

Library Links(Child)

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Problem: “I have a license for the journal Psycho-Oncology, why are there no links for it in PubMed?”

Because LinkOut has not received the Provider full text links for the articles

Key 2: Full text links (Parent)

The Provider URL syntax to access full text may differ from that of journal Web sites

e.g. Elsevier links point to a linking hub not articles

e.g. Broken links

LinkOut participation is voluntary…ask your providers to participate in LinkOut

Key 2: Library links (Child)

Authentication-authorization is managed by the full text provider

Updates are effective in 48 hours

Problem:

“The LinkOut Journal List shows Noise & Health availability from 1998 through 2005. Why are not all the article links for 1998 present?”

Key 3: Article level–Journal level LinkOut works at the article level Providers are not obligated to provide all

article links for an issue Gaps exist within the listed date range for a

journal

Key 3: Article level–Journal level

The date range that appears in the LinkOut journal list is an aggregation of the article level links supplied by full text Providers

Problem: “The LinkOut Journal List shows Noise & Health availability from 1998 through 2005. Why are not all the article links for the 1998 issue present?”

Because LinkOut has not received the Provider links for every individual article published in that journal for 1998

Problem:

“ I have a SERHOLD account, why haven’t my print holdings been transferred to LinkOut?”

Key 4: LinkOut & SERHOLD Holdings SERHOLD holdings: a spring board to a LinkOut

presence

Key 4: LinkOut & SERHOLD Holdings

Key 4: LinkOut & SERHOLD Holdings

Key 4: LinkOut & SERHOLD Holdings

Only print holdings will be transferred

SERHOLD data is transferred to LinkOut every night

Submission Utility updates take effect in 48 hours

Problem: “ I have a SERHOLD account, why haven’t my print holdings been transferred to LinkOut?”

SERHOLD holdings will not be transferred to LinkOut unless you register them in the Submission Utility

Problem:

”I entered my holdings and icons in the Submission Utility. How come I don’t see my icons in PubMed?”

Problem “I entered my holdings and icons in the Submission Utility. How come I don’t see my icons in PubMed?”

The library icons simply need to be activated in PubMed

Key 5: Activate Icons

Access PubMed through your special URL

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?holding=username

Key 5: Activate Icons

Verify icon presence: enter loprovusername [sb] in the

PubMed search box

Key 5: Activate Icons

Key 5: Activate Icons

LinkOut will automatically supply generic print and full text icons

What’s next?

Key 6: Publicize Provide a link to access PubMed through your

special URL on your website

Key 6: Publicize

Promote use of your library icon rather than the publisher icon

Tell your users about LinkOut – brochures, training, etc.

Pop Quiz! Pop Quiz! 3 extremely pleasing prizes Please raise your hand if you know the

answer

The first to answer correctly will win

The LinkOut team is not eligible to win

Pop Quiz! Question 1!

Which of the following is a publisher agent:

a. NCBIb. Highwirec. EBSCOd. New England Journal of Medicine

Pop Quiz! Question 2!

I have a license for journal XYZ, why are there no links for it in PubMed?

a. NCBI forgot to make the linksb. Journal XYZ is x-ratedc. LinkOut did not process authentication for this

journald. Your Provider has not sent the full text links to

LinkOut

Pop Quiz! Question 3! Which of the following is true:

a. The LinkOut journal list shows complete journal runs at the article level

b. Gaps to full text links exist because the LinkOut team plays too much Wii

c. The LinkOut journal list is an aggregation of the article level links supplied by full text Providers

d. LinkOut stores full text articles in its database

Thank you for your attention

FAQs for libraries http://

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/linkout/doc/liblofaq.shtml

LinkOut Help – everything you want to know about LinkOut http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=he

lplinkout.chapter.lib LinkOut course – Getting started with

LinkOut http://

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/linkout/doc/linktutorial.html