US National Library of Medicine

 

History

US National Library of Medicine(NLM)

For subtleties of the pre-1956 history of the Library, see Library of the Surgeon General's Office.

The forerunner of the National Library of Medicine, laid out in 1836, was the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, a piece of the workplace of the Surgeon General of the United States Army. The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and its Medical Museum was established in 1862 as the Army Medical Museum. Over their time the Library of the Surgeon General's Office and the Army Medical Museum frequently shared quarters. From 1866 to 1887, they were housed in Ford's Theater after creation there was quit, following the death of President Abraham Lincoln.

In 1956, the library assortment was moved from the control of the U.S. Division of Defense to the Public Health Service of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and renamed the National Library of Medicine, through the instrumentality of Frank Bradway Rogers, who was the chief from 1956 to 1963. The library moved to its ongoing quarters in Bethesda, Maryland, on the grounds of the National Institutes of Health, in 1962.

Distributions and instructive assets

Starting around 1879, the National Library of Medicine has distributed the Index Medicus, a month to month manual for articles, in almost 5,000 chose diaries. The last issue of Index Medicus was imprinted in December 2004, however this data is presented in the openly available PubMed, among the in excess of fifteen million MEDLINE diary article references and digests returning to the 1960s and 1.5 million references returning to the 1950s.[6]


The National Library of Medicine runs the National Center for Biotechnology Information, which houses natural data sets (PubMed among them) that are openly available on the Internet through the Entrez web index [7] and Lister Hill National Center For Biomedical Communications.[8] As the United States National Release Center for SNOMED CT, NLM gives SNOMED CT information and assets to licensees of the NLM UMLS Metathesaurus.[9] NLM keeps up with ClinicalTrials.gov vault for human interventional and observational investigations. Moreover NLM runs ChemIDplus which is a synthetic information base of north of 400,000 synthetic substances complete with names, equivalents, and designs. It incorporates connections to NLM and different information bases and assets, including connections to government, state and global offices. [10]

Toxicology and natural wellbeing

The Toxicology and Environmental Health Program was laid out at the National Library of Medicine in 1967 and is accused of creating PC data sets aggregated from the clinical writing and from the records of legislative and nongovernmental organizations.[11] The program has executed a few data frameworks for substance crisis reaction and state funded training, for example, the Toxicology Data Network, TOXMAP, Tox Town, Wireless Information System for Emergency Responders, Toxmystery, and the Household Products Database. These assets are available without charge on the web.


Radiation openness

The United States National Library of Medicine Radiation Emergency Management System[12] gives:


Direction for medical services suppliers, fundamentally doctors, about clinical finding and therapy of radiation injury during radiological and atomic crises

In the nick of time, proof based, usable data with adequate foundation and setting to make complex issues reasonable to those without formal radiation medication skill

Online data that might be downloaded ahead of time, so it would be accessible during a crisis in the event that the Internet were not open

Radiation Emergency Management System is delivered by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, Office of Planning and Emergency Operations, in participation with the National Library of Medicine, Division of Specialized Information Services, with educated authorities from the National Cancer Institute, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and numerous U.S. what's more, global consultants.[12]


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Public Library of Medicine

Logo of the National Library of Medicine

Public Library of Medicine in 1999

Library in 1999

Country United States

Type Medical library

Established 1836; 186 years ago[1]

(as the Library of the Office of the Surgeon General of the Army)[2]

Reference to legitimate mandate Public Law 941 - August 3, 1956, a revision to Title III of the Public Health Service Act

Location Bethesda, Maryland

Coordinates 38°59′45″N 77°05′56″WCoordinates: 38°59′45″N 77°05′56″W

Branch of National Institutes of Health

Assortment

Things collected books, diaries, compositions, pictures, and interactive media; genomic, substance, toxicological, and ecological information; drug data; clinical preliminaries information; wellbeing information principles; programming; and buyer wellbeing data

Size 27.8 million (2015)

Rules for collection Acquiring, putting together, and saving the world's insightful biomedical writing

Access and use

Access requirements Open to the general population

Circulation 309,817 (2015)

Other data

Budget US$341,119,000[3]

Director Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN PhD[4]

Staff 1,741

Website nlm.nih.gov

Map

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The United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), worked by the United States central government, is the world's biggest clinical library.[5]

Situated in Bethesda, Maryland, the NLM is an organization inside the National Institutes of Health. Its assortments incorporate in excess of 7,000,000 books, diaries, specialized reports, compositions, microfilms, photos, and pictures on medication and related sciences, including a portion of the world's most seasoned and most extraordinary works.

Extramural division

The Extramural Division gives awards to help research in clinical data science and to help arranging and advancement of PC and correspondences frameworks in clinical foundations. Exploration, distributions, and shows on the historical backdrop of medication and the existence sciences likewise are upheld by the History of Medicine Division. In April 2008 the ongoing presentation Against the Odds: Making a Difference in Global Health was sent off.


Public Center for Biotechnology Information division

Public Center for Biotechnology Information is an intramural division inside National Library of Medicine that makes public data sets in sub-atomic science, conducts research in computational science, creates programming devices for dissecting atomic and genomic information, and scatters biomedical data, for the better comprehension of cycles influencing human wellbeing and sickness.

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