United States National Library of Medicine
The National Library of Medicine (NLM), on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, has been a center of information innovation since its founding in 1836.
World's largest biomedical library[edit | edit source]
The world’s largest biomedical library, NLM maintains and makes available a vast print collection and produces electronic information resources on a wide range of topics that are searched billions of times each year by millions of people around the globe.
Research[edit | edit source]
It also supports and conducts research, development, and training in biomedical informatics and health information technology.
National network[edit | edit source]
In addition, the Library coordinates a 6,500-member National Network of Libraries of Medicine that promotes and provides access to health information in communities across the United States.
Institutions[edit | edit source]
The following institutions are part of the NLM.
- PubMed - Citations for biomedical literature
- MedLine Plus - health information portal
- Open-i - An experimental multimedia search engine
- MESH - Medical Subject Headings
- Clinicaltrials.gov - Via ClinicalTrials.gov, a database of clinical studies, worldwide
- BLAST - Basic Local Alignment
- HNCBC - Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications develops advanced health information resources and software tools.
- NCBI - research in the NCBI Computational Biology Branch focuses on a broad range of topics in molecular biomedicine.
History[edit | edit source]
Director[edit | edit source]
Funding[edit | edit source]
Contact[edit | edit source]
The National Library of Medicine has the physical address at National Library of Medicine 8600 Rockville Pike Bethesda, MD 20894
Website[edit | edit source]
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