The National Library of Medicine database MEDLINE/PubMed is going back in time. MEDLINE/PubMed now offers access to more than 60,000 articles indexed in the 1947 Current List of Medical Literature (CLMN). Created in 1971, MEDLINE initially contained citations to journal articles published mostly from 1966 onward. But in 1996, NLM began to expand its retrospective…
The International Council of Nurses (ICN) and the International Healthcare Terminology Standards Development Organization (IHTSDO) have agreed to create a standard, worldwide terminology for health information systems. The new standards are designed to improve patient care, data safety and communication. The National Library of Medicine is the US member of the IHTSDO and monitors development…
A new National Library of Medicine online resource is a goldmine for scholars and people interested in the history of health sciences. NLM created the Directory of History of Medicine Collections database. It has information about history of health sciences collections worldwide. Users can search by category, type and name of organization, state/province, country, and individual…
The National Library of Medicine is becoming more social, as in social media. There are a number of ways you can connect with NLM through Twitter and Facebook. NLM is a longtime leader in harnessing information technology to improve the public health. “We recognize that social media sites are an important and essential way to…
The National Library of Medicine quickly responded to the massive earthquake in Chile by creating a Web page with disaster-related information. The Disaster Information Management Research Center (DIMRC) created a Chile earthquake information page. The information is geared toward people in the United States and elsewhere who are monitoring or responding to the medical and public…
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