23/08/2021
« The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the implementation of the Universal Viewer for examining the thousands of digitized texts on the Digital Collections web site. Universal Viewer is an open-source community-supported software developed by Digirati for the Wellcome Library and…
30/03/2021
« (…) The NLM-Chem corpus consists of 150 full-text articles, doubly annotated by ten expert NLM indexers, with ~5000 unique chemical name annotations, mapped to ~2000 MeSH identifiers. We also describe a substantially improved chemical entity tagger, with automated annotations for all of PubMed and PMC freely accessible through the PubTator…
23/03/2020
« An open-resource literature hub known as LitCovid curates the most comprehensive collection of international research papers so far on the new coronavirus disease COVID-19 (see go.nature.com/3almd5p). Developed with the support of the US National Institutes of Health’s intramural research programme, LitCovid…
22/02/2019
« The U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world’s largest biomedical library, announces the launch of Medicine on Screen: Films and Essays from NLM—replacing Medical Movies on the Web which debuted in 2013—expanding NLM’s engagement with researchers from a variety of disciplines who use the medium…
16/11/2018
« In the NLM Strategic Plan released earlier this year, we noted that “[c]reating efficient ways to link the literature with associated datasets enables knowledge generation and discovery.” To that end, PMC is now aggregating data citations, data availability statements and supplementary materials, as available, in an Associated Data box. This…
02/03/2018
(…) The National Library of Medicine (NLM) envisions a future in which data and information transform and accelerate biomedical discovery and improve health and health care.
Achieving this vision will require NLM to refocus and enhance its research, development, training, and information services to make more biomedical data findable,…
03/07/2017
« The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the release of an enhanced version of MeSH on Demand, a tool that can be used to identify Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) terms relevant to text of up to 10,000 characters. (…) »
15/12/2016
« In the movie The Graduate, Benjamin receives one word, whispered in hushed tones, as guidance to a successful future: “plastics.” Today, the National Library of Medicine, and the NIH as a whole, would whisper “data.”
(…) We believe the NLM must play a key role in preserving data…