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TOXNET Website to be Retired, Most Content Will Remain Available

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From the US National Library of Medicine Technical Bulletin 

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2019 September 24 [posted]

On December 16, 2019, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) TOXNET (TOXicology Data NETwork) website will be retired. Most content will remain available through other NLM databases as well as from external websites.

TOXNET has served as an integrated system of toxicology and environmental health information. The most frequently used databases are being incorporated into three NLM core resources: PubChem, an open chemistry database; PubMed, a resource for biomedical literature; and Bookshelf, a free online resource to access books and documents in life science and healthcare.

Several resources in TOXNET came from other organizations, such as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and will continue to be available from those sources. Some databases will be retired.

The TOXNET transition page provides a list of its databases and how to access their content.”

 

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New site searches multiple venues for health services research

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New Health Services Research ONESearch

From the 2016 December 22 Technical bulletin (US National Library of Medicine)

In December 2016, the National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR) released NICHSR ONESearch. This consolidated search site allows researchers to search two unique databases and two specialized web portals with one simple search:

Searching

Search for a word or phrase (see Figure 1). Note: Use double quotes to search for phrases; Boolean operators are allowed.

onesearch search for public health accreditation.
Figure 1: NICHSR ONESearch search for “public health accreditation.”

Your search results are ranked by relevance. The application of origin is in parenthesis after the title of the article/resource (see Figure 2).

Search results with application of origin.
Figure 2: Search results with resource of application.”

In the left sidebar, use “refine by Application” to explore results from that resource more specifically (see Figure 3).

refine by Application sidebar.
Figure 3: Refine by Application sidebar.

For example, clicking on the link to PHPartners displays the 78 items identified on that site. You can then search further using the categories and fields specific to that resource (see Figure 4).

refine by Application sidebar.
Figure 4: Refine by Application sidebar.

To return to your original NICHSR ONESearch results, click the “x” in the breadcrumbs above your search results or next to the name of the chosen application (see Figure 5).

Return to ONESearch results.
Figure 5: Return to ONESearch results.

NICHSR ONESearch will return the same results as a similar search within each of the individual resources. Please note that only HSRProj utilizes MeSH indexing within its records. The ONLY way to search HSRProj using MeSH is to go directly to HSRProj. The unified resource is intended to complement HSR and public health literature in PubMed and the journals in the NLM Catalog by providing access to curated grey literature.

Searching Help

See the Search Tips for NICHSR ONESearch FAQ for additional information.

Comments?

We welcome your feedback. Please send your comments and questions to: NLM Customer Service with “NICHSR ONESearch” in the subject field.

By Patricia Gallagher and Lisa Lang
National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology

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Learning Resource Databaase by the National Library of Medicine (NLM)

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The Learning Resource Database includes animated tours, tutorials and other online training material for NLM products and services including PubMed and specific NLM biomedical areas as clinical trials, bioinformatics, cancer, drugs and chemicals, and toxicology.
However, remember that Mulford librarians are at the ready for consultations with your information and research needs!

LRD

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More streamlined way to locate PubMed (and other NLM) educational resources more easily

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From an NLM Technical Bulletin (May 12, 2016)

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the new NLM Learning Resources Database, making it easy to find educational resources for NLM products and services. These materials include videos, tutorials, and handouts on products such as PubMed, ClinicalTrials.gov, Unified Medical Language System, and many more. Now you can find resources using one interface rather than searching different areas of the NLM Web site. An API is also available to auto-populate NLM learning resources on your Web site.

[ Remember! Mulford librarians are always ready and able to consult with you on using PubMed and other NLM resources! You may contact us via options at Ask a Health Science Librarian ]

The database currently holds all of the resources previously listed on the former Distance Education Resources Web page. There is a permanent redirect from this page to the NLM Learning Resources Database. Additional resources are being added on an ongoing basis.

Graphical User Interface

The NLM Learning Resources database can be searched or filtered using:

  • keywords in the search box (see A in Figure 1)
    • to retrieve a list of all resources, search an asterisk (*) in the search box
    • a phrase in the search box is treated as separate words ORed together
  • subject or product (see B Figure 1)
  • Date Last Revised (see C Figure 1)
  • archived materials (see D Figure 1)

The Date Last Revised option refers to the last time the learning resource was updated. If the resource has not been revised, the date filter will use the date the resource was created to filter results. The most recently updated resources automatically appear when the database is first accessed or all filters are reset in order to highlight new and interesting videos and materials. Further documentation on how to use the NLM Learning Resources Database is available through the Help button.

Learning Resources Database homepage.
Figure 1: NLM Learning Resources Database homepage.

Application Programming Interface (API)

Use the NLM Learning Resources API to auto-populate NLM learning resources on your Web site. Documentation on how to use the API is available through the Help button. Sample code and examples of pages currently utilizing the API are available under the API for Developers section in the Help.

Finding the NLM Learning Resources Database

The database can be accessed directly using the URL https://learn.nlm.nih.gov/ or the Web-based Training through the Learning Resources Database link on the Training and Outreach section of the NLM Web site (see Figure 2).

NLM Learning Resources accessed from the Training and Outreach Web page.
Figure 2: NLM Learning Resources accessed from the Training & Outreach Web page.

See a Presentation of the Database

See a presentation and demonstration of the database at the NLM Theater at the Annual Meeting of the Medical Library Association meeting on May 16 and May 17, 2016. The presentation will be available from the NLM Learning Resources Database.

Questions

Your questions and comments about the NLM Learning Resources Database are welcome. Please send them to NLM Customer Service.

By Sarah Helson

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NIH Manuscript Collection Optimized for Text-Mining and More

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From the 4 December 2015 NLM Technical Bulletin

NIH Manuscript Collection Optimized for Text-Mining and More

NIH Manuscript Collection Optimized for Text-Mining and More. NLM Tech Bull. 2015 Nov-Dec;(407):b8.

2015 December 04 [posted]

[Editor’s Note: This is a reprint of an announcement from the NIH Extramural Nexus. To automatically receive news, updates, and blog posts on extramural grant policies, processes, events, and resources please see the subscribe page.

NIH-supported scientists have made over 300,000 author manuscripts available on PubMed Central (PMC) since 2008. Now, NIH is making these papers accessible to the public in a format that will allow robust text analyses.

You can download the entire PMC collection of NIH-supported author manuscripts as a package in either XML or plain text formats. The collection will encompass all NIH manuscripts posted to PMC since July 2008. While the public can access the articles’ full text and accompanying figures, tables, and multimedia on the PMC Web site, the newly available article packages include full text only, in a form that facilitates text-mining.

We developed this resource to increase the impact of NIH funding. Through this collection, scientists will be able to analyze these manuscripts, further apply the findings of NIH research, and generate new discoveries.

For more information visit the PMC author manuscript collection Web site.

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Recent additions to the NLM Drug Information Portal include clinical experience with drugs and dietrary supplement information

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NLMDrugFrom the NLM-TOX-ENVIRO-HEALTH-L Digest –  2 Oct 2014 to 7 Oct 2014 

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) Drug Information Portal  is a free web resource that provides an informative, user–friendly gateway to current drug information for over 53,000 substances. The Portal links to sources from the NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies such as the U.S. FDA.

Current information regarding consumer health, clinical trials, AIDS–related drug information, MeSH® pharmacological actions, PubMed® biomedical literature, and physical properties and structure is easily retrieved by searching a drug name. A varied selection of focused topics in medicine and drug–related information is also available from displayed subject headings.

The Drug Portal retrieves by the generic or trade name of a drug or its category of usage.  Records provide a description of how the drug is used, its chemical structure and nomenclature, and include up to 20 Resource Locators which link to more information in other selected resources.   Recent additions to these Locators include clinical experience with drugs in PubMed Health, substances reviewed in NLM LiverTox, information from the Dietary Supplement Label Database, and drug images in the Pillbox beta .

Data in the Drug Information Portal is updated daily, and is also available on mobile devices.

More information can be found at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/druginfoportalfs.html

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Additional drug resources may be found at the UT Library Guide Pharmacy Guide – Drug Information

 

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“Medicine in the Americas” – a new digital collection from NLM

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New from the National Library of Medicine:

“Medicine in the Americas” is a digital library project that makes freely available original works demonstrating the evolution of American medicine from colonial frontier outposts of the 17th century to research hospitals of the 20th century.

Drawing on the collections of NLM’s History of Medicine Division and including works from the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada, this initial release of Medicine in the Americas encompasses monographs dating from 1610 to 1865. Additional titles, dating up to 1920 and drawing further upon NLM’s comprehensive collection of early American printed books and journals, will be available on an ongoing basis in the future.

Materials have been scanned from a broad range of areas, including (but not limited to):

  • Popular & Clinical Works
  • Epidemiology & Public Health
  • Allopathic & Alternative Approaches
  • The Diversity of Specializations
  • Ethnic & Racial Diversity
  • Women’s Health & Women Physicians
  • Milestones in Medical Publishing
  • Allied Healthcare Professions

To browse the list of titles in the “Medicine in the Americas” collection,  go to http://collections.nlm.nih.gov/muradora/browse.action?parentId=nlm%3ADREPMHL-coll&type=1

To see all items in the NLM’s digital collections, including the collection “The Public Health Film Goes to War”, go to:  http://collections.nlm.nih.gov/muradora/

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