A World of Knowledge for The Nation's Health: The U.S. National Library of Medicine

1986 ◽  
Vol 43 (12) ◽  
pp. 2991-2997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert B. Mehnert
Keyword(s):  
National Library ◽  
The U.S

Knowledge for Medicine and Health Care

2005 ◽  
Vol 44 (04) ◽  
pp. 596-600
Author(s):  
Jan H. van Bemmel
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
American Medical ◽  
Medical Informatics ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
International Medical ◽  
Honorary Doctorate ◽  
National Library ◽  
American Medical Informatics Association ◽  
The University ◽  
The U.S

SummaryDr. Donald A. B. Lindberg, Director of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, received an honorary doctorate from UMIT, the University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology in Innsbruck, Tyrol. The celebration took place on September 28, 2004 at an academic event during a conference of the Austrian, German, and Swiss Societies of Medical Informatics, GMDS2004. Dr. Lindberg has been a pioneer in the field of computers in health care from the early 1960s onwards. In 1984 he became the Director of the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, the world’s largest fully computerized biomedical library. Dr. Lind-berg has been involved in the early activities of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA), among others being the chair of the Organizing Committee for MEDINFO 86 in Washington D.C. He was elected the first president of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), and served as an editor of Methods of Information in Medicine.

scholarly journals When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion1: NLM’s work in Information Technology and Health in Africa, 1997–2011

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Julia Royall
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
The Internet ◽  
National Library ◽  
Spider Webs ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Communications Network ◽  
Successful Launch ◽  
Global Access ◽  
The U.S

In 1997, Donald A.B. Lindberg M.D., Director, U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) agreed to address the request of African malaria researchers for access to the Internet and medical journals as part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) contribution to the Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM). This challenge matched my interests and previous experience in Africa. I joined NLM in 1997 to help establish the MIM Communications Network (MIMCom) in partnership with several NIH components and more than 30 other partners in Africa, the U.S., the United Kingdom (U.K.), and Europe. After a successful launch of MIMCom, NLM worked with African partners to create a series of innovative programs to build capacity in Africa and enhance global access to indigenous African research.

scholarly journals Disaster Lit: Database for Disaster Medicine and Public Health

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-23
Author(s):  
Marcia Salmon
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Disaster Preparedness ◽  
Grey Literature ◽  
Disaster Medicine ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Health It ◽  
National Library ◽  
Research Journal ◽  
Open Access Database ◽  
The U.S

Disaster Lit: Database for Disaster Medicine and Public Health is created and maintained by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. It is an Open Access database of research literature in disaster medicine and public health. This database provides access to biomedical research, journal research, and grey literature on disaster medicine and public health. It has a well-developed search engine and a good user interface. Disaster Lit is an important database for research in emergency management and disaster preparedness and public health.

How many hamsters does it take? Under the hood at PMC

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey D. Beck
Keyword(s):  
Full Text ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
National Library ◽  
Pubmed Central ◽  
Journal Literature ◽  
True Story ◽  
The U.S

PubMed Central (PMC) is a free full-text XML-based archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Publishers submit XML, images, and supplemental files for their articles, the text converts to a common JATS XML, and they load to the database cleanly. The power of XML compels it! But that is not the whole story (or even a true story). Policies, miscommunications, and technical misunderstandings conspire against our Utopian XML workflow. We will share the details of how we get 30,000 new articles into the archive each month.

scholarly journals Attempts to modernize XML conversion at PubMed Central

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Latterner ◽  
Dax Bamberger ◽  
Kelly Peters ◽  
Jeffrey D. Beck
Keyword(s):  
Full Text ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
National Library ◽  
Pubmed Central ◽  
Journal Literature ◽  
Conversion Operation ◽  
The U.S

PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine. PMC receives about 70,000 XML articles every month and uses XSLT to convert them into its preferred format. In 2021, PMC started to explore options to modernize its extensive conversion codebase leveraging XSLT 3.0. This paper describes XML conversion and its challenges at PMC. It then outlines the first approach that PMC is evaluating: breaking a single conversion operation into multiple, dynamic transformations using fn:transform, one of the powerful new tools available with XSLT 3.0.

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