This presentation was provided by Patricia Brennan of The National Library of Medicine, during the NISO event "Defining The Library: The Mission, Role and Community," held on March 13, 2019.

1. Defining the Library:
Mission, Role and Community:
NISO Webinar
Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD
NLM Director
National Library of
Medicine –
Anticipating our
Third Century

2. NLM
NEI
NCI
NHLBI NINDS NIMH
NIAMSNINR
NCCIH
NHGRI
NIA
NIAAA
NIAID
NICHD
NIDCD
NIDCR
NIDDK
NIDA
NIEHS
OD
NIBIB
NIMHD NCATS
CITCCCSR
FICNIGMS
The National Institutes of Health
27 Institutes and Centers --$37B

3. Video

5. Accelerate
discovery and
advance health
through data-
driven research
Reach more
people in more
ways through
enhanced
dissemination
and engagement
Build a workforce
for data-driven
research and
health
NLM Strategic Plan
Transforming Data into Knowledge

6. Accelerate
discovery and
advance health
through data-
driven research

7. Protocols
Funding
Code
Models
Clinical Data Literature
Study Data
People
Pathways
Instruments
Fostering a
ecosphere of
discovery
digital research objects

8. Data Science
&
Open Science

9. Reach more people
in more ways
through enhanced
dissemination
and engagement

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Enhance information delivery

11. New users, New ways
Biomedical & health information access methods
& information dissemination strategies

12. The Human Enterprise:
Reaching People Wherever

13. Build a workforce
for data-driven
research and health

14. Expand & enhance research training
for biomedical informatics & data science

15. Training across society

16. • Innovative attribution
• Automated indexing
• Personalized presentation
& delivery
The 21st Century Collection
CUSTODIAN | CONNECTOR | DISCOVERER

17. Creating the 21st Century Collection of
BIOMEDICAL KNOWLEDGE
• Permanent, discoverable archive of text and data
• Listening to trends in Science & Scientific
Communication
– Open Science
– Preprints & other interim products of research
– Data Sharing
• Preparing for (and leading) new directions in scientific
communications through collaboration

18. Journal Article as a
Nexus for Discovery
PubMed Central (PMC)
contains full text records of publisher’s
versions and author manuscripts
PubMed
contains citations, abstracts, and
associated metadata
https://www.crossref.org/blog/the-article-nexus-linking-publications-to-associated-research-outputs/

19. ClinicalTrials.GOV:
An alternative view on interconnected objects
Results database
entries
Journal
publications
SAPs
IPD
Other Information (e.g., press releases,
news articles, editorials)
CSRs
Full protocols
Other study
documents
Conference
abstracts
ClinicalTrials.gov
Record
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20. Distributed Data Infrastructure

21. • PMC stores publication-
related supplemental
materials and datasets
directly associated
publications. Up to 2 GB.
• Generate Unique
Identifiers for the stored
supplementary materials
and datasets.
Dryad and FigShare,
or other
NIH managed
repositories
• Store and manage large
scale, high priority NIH
datasets (Partnership
with STRIDES)
• Assign Unique Identifiers
(dbGap), implement
authentication,
authorization & access
control (eRA Commons)
Datasets up to 2
gigabytes
Datasets up to
20*gigabytes
High priority Datasets
T-Pbyte range
PubMed Central
• Assign Unique
Identifiers (DOI) to
datasets associated
with publications and
link to PubMed
• Store and manage
datasets associated
with publication, up to
20* GB.
NIH strongly encourages
open access
Data Sharing Repositories
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/NIHbmic/nih_data_sharing_repositories.html

22. • Balancing on-prem and commercial
cloud storage
• Budgeting for data management
and sharing
• Use of existing repositories
• Community-driven curation models
A 21st century Data Infrastructure

24. Preparing for our
Third Century:
A Building that
Works!

25. Foster distinctiveness of NLM as a
reliable, trustable source
of health information & biomedical data

26. Questions and discussion

27. Reaching NLM
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