NLM Online Information Services (Listed Below)

Selected NLM services require billed accounts, accessed by password.

• MEDLARS (MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System), is a computerized system of databases and databanks pertinent to biomedical research and patient care, including MEDLINE, one of the most well-known and heavily used biomedical bibliographic databases:
  • Connect to MEDLARS via telnet (access code required)
  • MEDLARS factsheet
  • MEDLINE factsheet
  • How to establish a MEDLARS account

• On the basis of recommendations made at the June, 1993, NIH HIV/AIDS Information Services Conference, coupled with increases in NLM's AIDS funding, NLM is able to offer free access to three MEDLARS databases relating to AIDS: AIDSLINE, AIDSDRUGS, and AIDSTRIALS, as well as an online directory of sources of information, DIRLINE:
  • Connect to AIDS databases via telnet (access code required)
  • AIDSLINE factsheet
  • AIDSTRIALS and AIDSDRUGS factsheet
  • DIRLINE factsheet
  • How to establish an AIDS database account

• TOXNET (TOXicology NETwork) is a computerized system of databases and databanks pertinent to biomedical research and patient care, including MEDLINE, one of the most well-known and heavily used biomedical databases. accessible by modem and the Internet:
  • Connect to TOXNET via telnet (access code required)
  • TOXNET factsheet
  • How to establish a TOXNET account

• Grateful Med is a popular and easy-to-use interface to MEDLINE and other MEDLARS databases, as well as TOXNET. It is available for both PC-compatible and Macintosh computers. Grateful Med connects to the NLM via either the Internet or a modem:
  • Grateful Med factsheet
  • How to establish a Grateful Med account

• HSTAT (Health Services/Technology Assessment Text) is a full-text database providing clinical practice guidelines (sponsored by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, AHCPR), NIH Consensus Statements, NIH Technology Assessments, and the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Guide to Clinical Preventive Services:
  • Connect to HSTAT via the NLM Full-Text Retrieval System (FTRS; World-Wide Web version)
  • HSTAT factsheet

• NLM Locator is an online catalog of NLMs books, audiovisuals, and journal titles:
  • Connect to NLM Locator via telnet

• The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) provides access to GenBank and other sequence databases for text and homology searching.

• A subset of NLM FactSheets is available in hypertext.

• The NLM Gopher server, including information about:
  • NLM Procurements

• The NLM ftp server (principally containing documents such as NLM FactSheets).

• Services from the NLM History of Medicine Division:
  • Hypertext/multimedia exhibits.

  • OnLine Images from the History of Medicine (a searchable database of nearly 60,000 images from the prints and photographs collection).

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• The NLM administers activities of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM)

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• Information from meetings held at the NLM:
  • Proceedings of SIGWAIS/SIGNIDR III (Special Interest Group for Networked Information Discovery & Retrieval), (Lister Hill Auditorium, 12 November 1993).

  • Building The Library/Information Center of the Future, (Lister Hill Auditorium, 7-8 April 1994).

  • Vocabularies for Computer-Based Patient Records: Identifying Candidates for Large Scale Testing (Minutes of a Meeting Sponsored by the NLM and the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research [AHCPR], Lister Hill Auditorium, 5-6 December 1994)

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• The NLM participates in several consortia of note:
  • The federal High Performance and Computing and Communications (HPCC) Program (the National Coordination Office for HPCC is located at the NLM)

  • CENDI.

  • The NCSA Mosaic Federal Consortium (WWW server in preparation).

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• Online NLM reports:
  • Report: Multicasting from the Second International World-Wide Web Conference 1994: Mosaic and the Web (Chicago, 17-20 October 1994)

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• Online versions of presentations by NLM staff:
  • A short hypertext/multimedia course on the history and uses of the Internet.

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• Extramural Research Projects Supported by NLM Funding