Sharing a $360,000 grant from the Open Knowledge Commons with four partner libraries, NLM will digitize items from its extensive holdings, including medical publications dating back to the 17th century. They will be among some 30,000 volumes within the public domain of historic significance to be digitized from the NLM, the Francis A. Countway Library of…
The mobile Internet audience is large and growing fast—almost doubling from February 2007 to February 2009. To serve that expanding group, NLM has initiated Mobile MedlinePlus, a portable version of MedlinePlus, its popular consumer health information site. Currently, more than 10 million visitors a month turn to MedlinePlus for NIH’s authoritative health information. “A huge number…
No sooner had Haiti’s January 12 earthquake subsided than the NLM Specialized Information Services’ Disaster Information Management Resource Center began creating a Web site of disaster-related health information to aid in the recovery. The Health Resources for Haiti page features Haitian Creole and French-language materials and provides links to government and non-governmental relief agencies and…
The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and its work on improving the availability of sequence data for researchers is the subject of a January 4 article in GenomeWeb by Vivien Marx. NCBI is developing a new assembly database while working with the Genome Reference Consortium to explore patch releases for reference genomes, and also…
Simon Liu, PhD, NLM Director of the Office of Computer and Communications Systems (OCCS), has been appointed Director of the National Agricultural Library, effective February 16, 2010. “Simon has been a wonderful colleague and an outstanding contributor to NLM’s mission,” commented NLM Director Donald A.B. Lindberg, MD. “We look forward to continued benefit from his…
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