NLM – Access

NLM and Wellcome complete partnership to provide free access to hundreds of years of medical research

Open AccessFebruary 22, 2019

(12 February 2019) The National Library of Medicine (NLM) and Wellcome have completed their partnership to make thousands of full back issues of historically-significant biomedical journals freely available through the National Institutes of Health life sciences repository PubMed Central (PMC), and through its European counterpart, Europe PMC. The NLM and Wellcome are pleased to report that over two dozen additional…

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National Library of Medicine announces MedPix®, free online medical image database

DatabasesFebruary 9, 2016

(5 February 2016) The National Library of Medicine is pleased to announce the launch of MedPix®, a free online medical image database originally developed by the Departments of Radiology and Biomedical Informatics at the Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. The URL is https://medpix.nlm.nih.gov/. The foundation for MedPix was a radiology study tool that was…

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NLM and FDA launch public access to Global Unique Device Identification Database

DatabasesMay 7, 2015

(4 May 2015) The FDA, in partnership with the National Library of Medicine (NLM), announced today that data submitted to FDA’s Global Unique Device Identification Database (GUDID) is now publicly available through a website called AccessGUDID. Through AccessGUDID, anyone can search or download information that device labelers have submitted to the GUDID about their medical…

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NLM and publishers grant free access to books and journals for healthcare professionals responding to earthquake in Nepal

Asia Pacific, PublishersApril 29, 2015

(28 April 2015) The National Library of Medicine (NLM) and publisher Emergency Access Initiative (EAI) has been activated to support healthcare professionals working on the response to the earthquake in Nepal. The EAI is a collaborative partnership between NLM and participating publishers to provide free access to full-text from more than 650 biomedical journals and…

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Ebola outbreak 2014: information resources

UncategorizedAugust 26, 2014

(25 August 2014) The National Library of Medicine, NLM, through the Disaster Information Management Research Center, has published a list of resources related to the 2014 ebola outbreak. They include maps, social media, journal literature and organizations with an interest in the topic. The list is here.

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NLM and Wellcome Library to make 150 years of biomedical journals freely available online

Digitization, eJournalsApril 17, 2014

(10 April 2014) Representatives of the US National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the Wellcome Trust recently signed a memorandum of understanding to work together to make thousands of complete back issues of historically-significant biomedical journals freely available online. The terms of the MOU include a donation of GBP750,000 (USD1.2 million) to the NLM that…

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NLM supports medical efforts in the Philippines after typhoon Haiyan

Asia Pacific, UncategorizedNovember 14, 2013

(12 November 2013) The National Library of Medicine (NLM) announces the activation of the Emergency Access Initiative (EAI) in support of medical efforts in the Philippines and surrounding areas following the devastating typhoon Haiyan. The Emergency Access Initiative is a collaborative partnership between NLM and participating publishers to provide free access to full text articles…

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NLM launches web content collecting initiative

DatabasesDecember 23, 2012

The National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world’s largest medical library and a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has launched a web content collecting initiative. The Library is selecting web content as part of its mission to collect, preserve, and make accessible the scholarly biomedical literature as well as resources that illustrate…

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