{"title":"An active contributor: Dr. Lindberg and NLM's historical programs and services.","authors":"John Parascandola","doi":"10.3233/ISU-220150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/ISU-220150","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Donald A.B. Lindberg M.D.'s interests extended far beyond his scientific expertise into the arts and humanities, as evidenced, for example, by his love of opera, his talents in photography, and his affection for history. It is therefore not surprising that he had a strong interest in the National Library of Medicine's historical programs and services, going beyond supporting these activities to becoming actively involved in some of them. The subject of this essay is Dr. Lindberg's contributions to these programs and services, which may be grouped under three main headings: placing greater emphasis on more contemporary history, promoting the digitization of historical materials to increase access, and enhancing outreach through an exhibition program.</p>","PeriodicalId":39698,"journal":{"name":"Information Services and Use","volume":"42 2","pages":"181-191"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/ef/4a/isu-42-isu220150.PMC9199356.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40024478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Promoting new and expanded roles for librarians and information specialists.","authors":"Carla J Funk","doi":"10.3233/ISU-220152","DOIUrl":"10.3233/ISU-220152","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This chapter describes how the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), under the leadership of Donald A.B. Lindberg M.D., promoted new and expanded roles for librarians and information specialists in response to advances in technology and public policy. These advances brought information services directly to all potential users, including health professionals and the public and stimulated NLM to expand its programs, policies, and services to serve all. Dr. Lindberg included librarians and information specialists in all of NLM's new endeavors, helping both to recognize and establish new or expanded roles. The involvement of librarians and information specialists in multidisciplinary healthcare research teams, in underserved communities, and in research data management and compliance has helped to redefine the health sciences information profession for the 21st century.</p>","PeriodicalId":39698,"journal":{"name":"Information Services and Use","volume":"42 2","pages":"205-213"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/02/36/isu-42-isu220152.PMC9199357.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40024476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Josephine L Dorsch, John G Faughnan, Betsy L Humphreys
{"title":"Grateful Med: Direct access to MEDLINE for health professionals with personal computers.","authors":"Josephine L Dorsch, John G Faughnan, Betsy L Humphreys","doi":"10.3233/ISU-220147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/ISU-220147","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Donald A.B. Lindberg M.D. arrived as Director, U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) in late 1984 with the intention of implementing a physician-friendly interface to MEDLINE, a prime example of his interest in making NLM information services more directly useful in medical care. By early 1986, NLM's Grateful Med, an inexpensive PC search interface to MEDLINE useful for health professionals, had joined the group of end-user systems for searching MEDLINE that emerged in the 1980s. This chapter recounts Grateful Med's rapid iterative development and the subsequent campaign to bring it to attention of health professionals. It emphasizes Lindberg's role, the challenges faced by those introducing and using the interface in a pre-Internet world, and some longer-term effects of the effort to expand health professionals' use of MEDLINE during the decade from 1986 to 1996.</p>","PeriodicalId":39698,"journal":{"name":"Information Services and Use","volume":"42 2","pages":"151-160"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/c3/87/isu-42-isu220147.PMC9196098.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40024477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The multiple dimensions of expanded access to health information: Don Lindberg and the U.S. National Library of Medicine.","authors":"Betsy L Humphreys","doi":"10.3233/ISU-220146","DOIUrl":"10.3233/ISU-220146","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>When Donald A. B. Lindberg M.D. became Director of the U.S. National Library of Medicine in 1984, trained searchers, primarily librarians, conducted less than three million searches of NLM databases. They paid for their fair share of the commercial telecommunications costs to reach NLM's computer system. In 2015 when Lindberg retired, millions of scientists, health professionals, patients, members of the public, and librarians conducted billions of free searches of NLM's greatly expanded electronic resources via the Internet. Lindberg came to NLM intending to expand access to biomedical and health information along multiple dimensions: reaching more users, providing more types and volumes of information and data; and improving the conceptual, technical, and organizational connections needed to provide information to users when and where it is needed. By any measure he and NLM were spectacularly successful. This chapter discusses some key decisions and developments that contributed to that success.</p>","PeriodicalId":39698,"journal":{"name":"Information Services and Use","volume":"42 2","pages":"139-150"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/c2/4f/isu-42-isu220146.PMC9196099.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40025034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Free MEDLINE access worldwide.","authors":"Kent A Smith","doi":"10.3233/ISU-220148","DOIUrl":"10.3233/ISU-220148","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>When Donald A.B. Lindberg M.D. was sworn in as Director of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) in 1984, MEDLINE, NLM's online database of citations and abstracts to biomedical journal articles, was searched primarily by librarians trained to use its command language interface. There were fees for searching, primarily to recover the cost of using commercial value-added telecommunications networks. Thirteen years later, in 1997, MEDLINE became free to anyone with an Internet connection and a Web browser. This chapter provides an insider's view of how Dr. Lindberg's vision and leadership - combined with new technology, astute handling of policy issues, and key help from political supporters and influential advocates - enabled a tremendous expansion in access to biomedical and health information for scientists, health professionals, patients, and the public.</p>","PeriodicalId":39698,"journal":{"name":"Information Services and Use","volume":"42 2","pages":"161-170"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/f8/d2/isu-42-isu220148.PMC9196096.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40025036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Don Lindberg's home library and leadership traits.","authors":"Robert A Logan","doi":"10.3233/ISU-220154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/ISU-220154","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This chapter introduces the importance and some of the multidisciplinary diversity in Donald A.B. Lindberg M.D.'s home library. The latter collection minimally suggests his varied interests, which often inspired a multidisciplinary approach to tackling problems and managing the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). Dr. Lindberg converted the ideas he picked up from reading into administering projects as well as to set aspirational goals for NLM and for himself. The chapter suggests Dr. Lindberg's home library was an enduring reservoir of knowledge, judgment, planning, and creativity. The chapter also discusses two of Dr. Lindberg's leadership traits: the cultivation of discovery and project development in educational administration and the need for leaders to determine and act in the greater public interest. The chapter suggests the latter two traits defined Dr. Lindberg's NLM leadership.</p>","PeriodicalId":39698,"journal":{"name":"Information Services and Use","volume":"42 2","pages":"225-240"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/a3/79/isu-42-isu220154.PMC9196095.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40024474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Providing health information for patients, families and the public.","authors":"Joyce E B Backus, Eve-Marie Lacroix","doi":"10.3233/ISU-220149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/ISU-220149","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>When Dr. Lindberg was sworn in as Director, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) was providing few resources with information useful to the public, having concentrated efforts towards health professionals and scientists. With his arrival, and that of the Internet in the 1990s, NLM embarked on a research and user-focused path towards providing authoritative health information for patients, families and the public. MedlinePlus, NIHSeniorHealth, and MedlinePlus en espanol delivered health information in a variety of formats using text, still images, audio and video. These resources were supported by NLM advisors and Dr. Lindberg's strong belief that patients and families needed easy access to medical information to be able to effectively care for themselves in illness and maintain the best health possible throughout their lives.</p>","PeriodicalId":39698,"journal":{"name":"Information Services and Use","volume":"42 2","pages":"171-180"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/85/81/isu-42-isu220149.PMC9196097.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40024479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CiteAb for researchers and suppliers: How identifying product citations from publications can help accelerate science","authors":"Skye Longworth, Andrew Chalmers","doi":"10.3233/isu-220158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/isu-220158","url":null,"abstract":"The monumental waste of time and money when the incorrect reagent is purchased is a prevalent problem in life science research. CiteAb is an innovative technology company that has developed unique data collection technology to identify product citations from the scientific literature in order to solve this problem. Citation data powers a search engine which ranks products by citation count. This provides researchers with a simple, unbiased and reliable method to identify the best reagent for their experiment. CiteAb then saw an opportunity to provide citation-based data products to reagent suppliers and financial companies to maximise their business performance, reach and impact. CiteAb technology is estimated to have saved the life science industry $10 billion, ultimately helping accelerate science. This success has driven sustained revenue growth with no external investment. This article will give an overview of CiteAb’s technology, products, impact and future directions, including the potential for partnerships with publishers.","PeriodicalId":39698,"journal":{"name":"Information Services and Use","volume":"1 1","pages":"319-324"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90934010","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Scientific document retrieval using structure encoded string with trie indexing","authors":"Sourish Dhar, S. Roy, Arnab Paul","doi":"10.3233/isu-220155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/isu-220155","url":null,"abstract":"Retrieving mathematical expressions from scientific documents is a challenging task as mathematical expressions or formulae are quite different from the traditional text. Mathematical expressions are highly symbolic and complex. Moreover, the structure of a mathematical formula conveys a semantic meaning which cannot be overlooked. This paper proposes a scientific document retrieval system based on mathematical formula query. The paper explores the concept of Structure Encoded String (SES), which has been employed for mathematical expressions to capture the relations among the formula structures. A pattern based trie indexing scheme has been proposed for faster retrieval. The Jaro-Winkler Similarity has been adopted for matching and ranking. Experiments are conducted, results are reported using standard evaluation measures and compared with similar existing systems.","PeriodicalId":39698,"journal":{"name":"Information Services and Use","volume":"23 1","pages":"241-259"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83570137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Don Lindberg, High performance computing and communications, and telemedicine","authors":"M. Ackerman, Sally Howe, D. Masys","doi":"10.3233/ISU-210143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/ISU-210143","url":null,"abstract":"From 1992 to 1995 Donald A.B. Lindberg M.D. served concurrently as the founding director of the National Coordination Office (NCO) for High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) and NLM director. The NCO and its successors coordinate the Presidential-level multi-agency HPCC research and development (R&D) program called for in the High-Performance Computing Act of 1991. All large Federal science and technology R&D and applications agencies, including those involved in medical research and health care, participate in the now-30-year-old program. Lindberg’s HPCC efforts built on his pioneering work in developing and applying advances in computing and networking to meet the needs of the medical research and health care communities. As part of NLM’s participation in HPCC, Lindberg promoted R&D and demonstrations in telemedicine, including testbeds, medical data privacy, medical decision-making, and health education. That telemedicine technologies were ready to meet demand during the COVID-19 pandemic is testament to Lindberg’s visionary leadership.","PeriodicalId":39698,"journal":{"name":"Information Services and Use","volume":"74 1","pages":"117 - 127"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89898629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}