1. LinkOut Update Medical Library Association Annual Meeting 2006 Phoenix, AZ

2. Update Items  Home page and Help  Submission Utility redesign  Enhancing localization: Share My NCBI selections with your users  LinkOut promotional materials  New Flash tutorials

3. New Developments: Website & Help  Redesigned to facilitate access to information.  Home page provides web site navigation and quick access to Help manual.  Web site contains frequently updated information, such as FAQs and training materials.  LinkOut Help is a basic instruction manual for LinkOut, Outside Tool and DDS participation.

4. New Developments: Website & Help Getting there from PubMed (www.pubmed.gov)www.pubmed.gov

5. New Developments: Website & HelpWebsite Tab format groups resources for easy access. “Quick Links” to frequently used resources. “Quick links” to Help and FAQ lists.

6. New Developments: Website & Help Information for Libraries is under the “Libraries” tab. Links are grouped by topic.

7. New Developments: Website & Help Click on the topic to toggle the menu

8. New Developments: Website & Help Many of the links lead directly to the topic in LinkOut Help.

9. New Developments: Website & Help LinkOut Help is a book on the NCBI bookshelf. Searchable! TOC in sidebar. Complete contents here.

10. New Developments: Website & Help Each chapter is available as a PDF for easy printing.

11. What we’ve been working on: Submission Utility  Library Submission Utility redesign  Goals: Improve layout for easier use Incorporate new features SNEAK PEAK!!!

12. What we’ve been working on: Submission Utility Like the homepage, a tabbed format assists with navigation. LinkOut is the default tab.

13. What we’ve been working on: Submission Utility Listing journals by title ranges improves browsing. Choices for browsing. Filter the list. Browse or search.

14. What we’ve been working on: Submission Utility Simple “click to pick” format is maintained for journal selection.

15. NEW FEATURES! What we’ve been working on: Submission Utility URL Prefix/Suffix: Customize the URLs for your library’s links.

16. What we’ve been working on: Submission Utility

17. Manage Outside Tool and DDS from the Submission Utility.

18. What we’ve been working on: Submission Utility

19. Enhanced localizing: My NCBI share  Display icons, filter tabs, and highlighting from My NCBI using a special URL.  Increase the visibility of your library’s resources for your users.  Easy to set up: www.pubmed.gov

20. Enhanced localizing: My NCBI share

21.  For example: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.f cgi?myncbishare=linkout http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.f cgi?myncbishare=linkout

22. Enhanced localizing : My NCBI share

23. LinkOut Promotional Materials  In response to requests for promotional materials from libraries.  Help libraries promote LinkOut to users.

24. LinkOut Promotional Materials  What are other libraries doing to promote LinkOut?

25. New Tutorials  3 short animated Flash tutorials Displaying Icons Setting up filters PubMed & OpenURL-based services  LinkOut>Libraries>Training and Promotion LinkOut  Ideas for topics? Please let us know.

26. New Tutorials

27. Questions?????? Please send questions and comments to: lib-linkout@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov