title: Promoting the usability of online AMIA Symposium Proceedings.
abstract: A semi-automatic procedure that extracts metadata from MEDLINE was used to develop a search tool that facilitates online location and (free) access to full-text electronic documents from the Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposia (1997-2003). Log file analysis for six months showed steady use of the tool, with most queries originating from hosts in the US (60%), Canada (15.3%), Argentina (10.2%) and Australia (9.6%) for common informatics topics.
authors.affiliation: Division of Health Sciences Informatics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
authors.forename: George R
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Caroline
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Zambrowicz
authors.forename: Dongming
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Fontelo
authors.forename: Patricia A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Abbott
mesh_terms: D003226:Congresses as Topic; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D016239:MEDLINE; D008490:Medical Informatics; D009862:Online Systems / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011643:Publishing; D012955:Societies, Medical