A new version of the Library Submission Utility will debut the first week of April. On Tuesday April 1st there will be a shut down of the current utility to convert all participants’ holdings information to the new utility. If all goes according to plans, the new utility will be up and running on Friday April 4th. The functioning of your library icons and links in PubMed will not be affected during this period. The new version of the utility has an improved layout and offers new functions, including a management interface for Outside Tool and Document Delivery Service, in addition to LinkOut.

I hope this new and improved version is more stable than what we have been dealing with. At least once or twice a month there is somebody on MEDLIB-L complaining about PubMed and LinkOut not working or displaying correctly. It shouldn't have those kind of problems, you want to set and forget about it until next year when you renew (or not) online journals.

It would also be nice if they would have a sample of what the layout will look like, what the new functions will be, etc. Perhaps if they showed a sample of Abstracts Plus prior to launch they might have prevented librarian freak out when they discovered their full text icons located at the bottom of the abstract (where few normal people would look).

---Update---
Thanks to Dale we have a link to the screen shots of the new version of LinkOut.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/linkout/doc/SU2/NewSU.htm.