United States National Library of Medicine

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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]

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]

It also supports and conducts research, development, and training in biomedical informatics and health information technology.

National network[edit]

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]

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.

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The National Library of Medicine has the physical address at National Library of Medicine 8600 Rockville Pike Bethesda, MD 20894

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