Public-Private Partnerships Will Accelerate Data-Driven Discovery – NLM Musings from the Mezzanine

Public-Private Partnerships Will Accelerate Data-Driven Discovery – NLM Musings from the Mezzanine

Public-Private Partnerships Will Accelerate Data-Driven Discovery

07/24/2018 04:00 PM EDT

Big news today from NIH announcing their new initiative to develop and test new ways to best implement cloud services in support of biomedical research. Called STRIDES for “Science and Technology Research Infrastructure for Discovery, Experimentation and Sustainability,” the initiative will allow NIH to explore the use of cloud environments to streamline NIH data use. … Continue reading "Public-Private Partnerships Will Accelerate Data-Driven Discovery"

Add your full-text book to the NCBI Bookshelf

07/24/2018 02:08 PM EDT

Since 1999, the NCBI Bookshelf has made full-text books and documents on life sciences and health freely available. The most accessed books, viewed by hundreds of thousands of people each month, are textbooks. This blog post explores the NCBI Bookshelf’s … Continue reading →

NLM Technical Bulletin, Jul-Aug 2018, MEDLINE 2022: A Five-Year Development Plan

07/24/2018 12:56 PM EDT

In December 2016, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) established the MeSH (Medical Subject Heading) Indexing Assessment Project to evaluate the impact on users of assigning MeSH terms to MEDLINE citations, a process referred to as MEDLINE indexing. Specifically, the purpose of the project was to evaluate the extent to which MeSH terms currently assigned to MEDLINE citations have a positive impact and for what purposes are they used and by whom. The project findings confirmed the value of MEDLINE indexing and the value of applying selected non-subject metadata to MEDLINE citations.