NLM Office Hours are an opportunity for people who use NLM products to interact with NLM staff. Each office hours session will begin with a brief product demonstration or news item, and the remainder of the session will be devoted to answering your questions.
Objectives
Improve knowledge about specific NLM programs, services or resources
Increase use or intention to use health information resources
This NLM Office Hours covers an overview of the modernization of the ClinicalTrials.gov Protocol Registration and Results System (PRS), including a mini-tutorial on how to register a trial using the modernized interface, PRS Beta. Following the demonstration, NLM product staff will be available to answer your questions.
This NLM Office Hours will include a brief presentation by Christina Robinson from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) ClinicalTrials.gov team. Following the demonstration, NLM product staff will be available to answer your questions.
This NLM Office Hours: PubMed will include a brief presentation by Amanda Sawyer from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) PubMed team. Following the demonstration, NLM product staff from the NCBI PubMed Team, Index Section, and Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) Team will be available to answer your questions.
This NLM Office Hours: MedlinePlus will include a brief presentation by Javier Chavez from the MedlinePlus team, focusing on Spanish language consumer health information in MedlinePlus en Español. Following the demonstration, MedlinePlus team members will be available to answer your questions.
This NLM Office Hours: PubMed Proximity Searching will include a brief presentation by Amanda Sawyer from NCBI's PubMed team, demonstrating the new feature. Following the demonstration, product staff from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) PubMed team will be available to answer your questions.
Join us for a special NLM Office Hours Listening Session, focused on how the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and our users can work together to update the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) vocabulary.
NLM Office Hours are hosted by the Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM) and offer one credit of Medical Library Association (MLA) continuing education (CE). This session will include a brief presentation by Stacy Lathrop from NLM's National Center for Biotechnology Information who will be discussing the use of Bookshelf followed by a Q&A session with the Bookshelf team.
This NLM Office Hours: PubMed will include a brief presentation by Susan Schmidt from NLM’s Index Section, discussing our recent transition to automated MEDLINE indexing for PubMed. Following the presentation, product staff from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) PubMed team, the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communication (LHC), Index Section, and more will be available to answer your questions about automated indexing and any other PubMed topics.
This NLM Office Hours: PubMed will include a brief presentation by Susan Schmidt from NLM’s Index Section, discussing our recent transition to automated MEDLINE indexing for PubMed. Following the presentation, product staff from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) PubMed team, the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communication (LHC), Index Section, and more will be available to answer your questions about automated indexing and any other PubMed topics.
In a special NLM Office Hours co-hosted by the Massachusetts Health Sciences Library Network (MAHSLIN), Dan Cho from NLM’s Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) team will briefly describe how the Medical Subject Headings are developed and talk about the role of community input in MeSH development. Following this brief presentation, Elaine Alligood from MAHSLIN will moderate a Q&A and discussion about MeSH.