NLM Technical Bulletin

The RxNorm May 2024 monthly release became available on Monday, May 6, 2024, and there are no major changes to report.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj24/brief/mj24_rxnorm_may_release.html

The 2024AA release of the Unified Medical Language System® (UMLS) Knowledge Sources is available for download as of May 6, 2024.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj24/mj24_umls_2024_release.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the May 2024 SNOMED CT International Edition is available for download.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj24/brief/mj24_may_snomed_international_edition.html

The Annual Meeting of the Medical Library Association (MLA) will be held in-person from May 18 13 21, 2024, in Portland, OR.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma24/ma24_NLM_at_MLA.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is committed to advancing biomedical discovery across our databases of biomedical literature, genomic information, and other scientific data. As part of the...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma24/ma24_mtix.html

Dr. Maia Hightower, MD, MPH, MBA, CEO and Founder of Equality AI, will deliver the 2024 Joseph Leiter National Library of Medicine (NLM)/Medical Library Association (MLA) Lecture.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma24/ma24_leiter_nlm_mla_lecture.html

Join us for the next National Library of Medicine (NLM) Office Hours on Tuesday, June 11, 2024 at 1 p.m. Eastern Time to find out what 19s new with PubMed! Amanda Sawyer from the National Center ...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma24/brief/ma24_NLM_Office_Hours_Pubmed.html

The RxNorm April 2024 monthly release became available on Monday, April 1, 2024. We have made changes to clindamycin 0.01 MG/MG Topical Gel.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma24/brief/ma24_rxnorm_april_release.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the April 2024 International Edition of SNOMED CT is available for download.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma24/brief/ma24_snomed_international_april.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the March 2024 SNOMED CT Spanish Edition is available for download. 

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma24/brief/ma24_march_snomed_spanish.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) provides millions of people access to health information via its portfolio of products and services. But some people may need to access NLM's resources in s...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma24/brief/ma24_drive_thru_data_webinar.html

The ClinicalTrials.gov API version 2.0 is now available on the modernized ClinicalTrials.gov website. The API, or application programming interface, is a tool to help researchers and developers a...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma24/ma24_clinicaltrials_api.html

Since announcing the launch of a more modern PubMed Central (PMC) website in March 2022, the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) continues to...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma24/ma24_pmc_updates.html

Do you want to learn more about how to use Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) in cataloging? Then this course is for you!

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma24/brief/ma24_mesh_class_announcement.html

The new year is in full swing, and you notice your saved PubMed searches are retrieving a lot more results now. Or you’re assisting a patron with locating literature about a concept that is new...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma24/brief/ma24_mesh_pubmed_on-demand.html

The RxNorm March 2024 monthly release became available on Monday, March 4, 2024.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma24/brief/ma24_rxnorm_march_release.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the March 2024 SNOMED CT International Edition is available for download.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma24/brief/ma24_march_snomed_international_edition.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the March 2024 US Edition of SNOMED CT is available for download. This release contains 122 new active concepts specific to the US Ex...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma24/brief/ma24_snomed_us_ed.html

As of March 2024, the National Center for Biotechnology Information's (NCBI) Microbial Genome Submission Check Tool (Frameshift) will no longer be available.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf24/jf24_ncbi_microbial_genome_submission_check.html

Please join the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM) Training Office for two events in January 2024. The events will introduce you to 2024...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd23/brief/nd23_mesh_2024_classes.html

The RxNorm February 2024 monthly release became available on Monday, February 5, 2024 and there are no major changes to report.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf24/brief/jf24_rxnorm_feb_release.html

Editor's note added February 2, 2024: A recording of the 2024 MeSH Highlights Webinar is available. NLM Technical Bulletin, Nov-Dec 2023, 2024 MeSH Classes: Highlights, Changes and PubMed Searchi...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd23/brief/nd23_mesh_2024_classes.html

Join us for another National Library of Medicine (NLM) Office Hour on Thursday, April 11, 2024 at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time. This session will focus on the beta version of a new online tool, the Dat...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf24/brief/jf24_office_hour_dataset_catalog.html

Recently, SRA staff identified and fixed a technical error in submission processing that affected approximately 2,289 submitted records between April and December 2023. Because of this processing...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf24/jf24_sra_reprocessed_data.html

The major focus of the 2024 winter edition was the evaluation of the 2024 Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) vocabulary for inclusion in the Classification index. Several additions and changes were ...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf24/jf24_nlm_classification_2024_winter_edition.html

How PubMed Works is a series of four 90-minute classes with live demonstrations, hands-on exercises, and Q&A time with PubMed experts. The classes are intended for librarians, other information p...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf24/brief/jf24_pubmed_classes.html

Join us for the next National Library of Medicine (NLM) Office Hours on Wednesday, February 28, 2024, at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time. This session is focused on PubMed, and will include a brief presen...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf24/brief/jf24_nlm_office_hours_pubmed.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the January 2024 SNOMED CT International Edition is available for download.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf24/brief/jf24_january_snomed_international_edition.html

The RxNorm January 2024 monthly release became available on Tuesday, January 2, 2024 and there are no major changes to report.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf24/brief/jf24_rxnorm_jan_release.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has released the 2024 production year PubMed Baseline files. The complete 2024 baseline consists of files pubmed24n0001 — pubmed24n1219. In addition to th...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd23/brief/nd23_pubmed_baseline_release.html

The PubReader format was added to PubMed Central (PMC) in 2012 to make it easier to read full text articles on tablet, mobile, and other small screen devices. The updated website is mobile respon...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd23/nd23_PMC_PubReader.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) adopted the 2024 Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) vocabulary for cataloging on December 11, 2023. For additions and changes to MeSH Terminology for 2024, see...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd23/nd23_2024_mesh_cataloging.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce a new Clinical Observations Recordings and Encoding (CORE) Problem List Subset of SNOMED CT is now available for download by UMLS lic...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd23/brief/nd23_core_problem_list_snomed.html

NLM Technical Bulletin from the National Library of Medicine

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja22/brief/ja22_medlineplus_tutorial_for_librarians_spanish.html

Please join the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM) Training Office for two events in January 2024. The events will introduce you to 2024...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd23/brief/nd23_mesh_2024_classes.html

The RxNorm December 2023 monthly release became available on Monday, December 4, 2023 and there are no major changes to report.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd23/brief/nd23_rxnorm_dec_release.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the December 2023 SNOMED CT International Edition is available for download.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd23/brief/nd23_snomed_december_edition.html

The September, October, November, and December 2023 monthly MeSH MARC files are now available at https://nlmpubs.nlm.nih.gov/projects/mesh/MESH_FILES/meshmarc/. These monthly files include the De...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd23/brief/nd23_mesh_marc_available.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is currently involved in Annual MeSH Processing (AMP) for 2024 Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). These include changing the MeSH main headings and subheading...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd23/nd23_mesh_annual_processing.html

Production year 2024 MeSH in XML will be released on December 4, 2023, and will be available for download from NLM 19s Data Distribution. 2024 MeSH RDF, MARC-21, and ASCII serializations will be ...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd23/brief/nd23_mesh_xml_release.html

The modernized version of the ClinicalTrials.gov public website has served as the primary site since June 2023. As the modernization effort continues, information about regulations and policies r...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd23/nd23_clinicaltrials_content_migration.html

Join us for the next National Library of Medicine (NLM) Office Hours on Thursday, December 14, 2023 at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time. This session will focus on the new NLM Data Catalog beta. The NLM D...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd23/brief/nd23_office_hours_data_catalog.html

Join us for the next National Library of Medicine (NLM) Office Hours on Thursday, December 14, 2023 at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time. This session will focus on the new NLM Data Catalog beta. The NLM Da...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd23/brief/nd23_office_hours_data_catalog.html

Learn about bioinformatics, the data science of biology!

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd23/brief/nd23_bioinformatics_class.html

The RxNorm November 2023 monthly release became available on Monday, November 6, 2023. We have removed Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) for this release.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd23/brief/nd23_rxnorm_november_release.html

The 2023AB release of the Unified Medical Language System® (UMLS) Knowledge Sources is available for download as of November 6, 2023.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd23/nd23_umls_2023ab_release_available.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the November 2023 SNOMED CT International Edition is available for download.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd23/brief/nd23_snomed_nov_edition.html

The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 2023 Annual Symposium will occur on November 11-15, 2023, in New Orleans, LA. The theme of this year 19s symposium is "Transforming Healthcare ...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so23/so23_amia.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the July 2023 SNOMED CT Orphanet Map package is available for download. This package is dependent upon the July 2023 SNOMED CT Inte...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so23/brief/so23_july_snomed_orphanet_map.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the October 2023 International Edition of SNOMED CT is available for download.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so23/brief/so23_october_snomed_international_edition.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the September 2023 SNOMED CT Spanish Edition is available for download. 

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so23/brief/so23_september_snomed_spanish_edition.html

The RxNorm October 2023 monthly release became available on Monday, October 2, 2023. We have made changes to Xacduro and some tacrolimus products for this release. 

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so23/brief/so23_rxnorm_oct_release.html

How PubMed Works is a series of four 90-minute classes with live demonstrations, hands-on exercises, and Q&A time with PubMed experts. The classes are intended for librarians, other information p...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so23/brief/so23_pubmed_classes.html

The revised National Library of Medicine (NLM) tutorial Finding and Using Health Statistics describes different types of health statistics, how they are collected, and where they can be found. Th...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so23/brief/so23_revised_health_statistics_tutorial.html

The GR field in PubMed has been renamed from "Grant Number" to "Grants and Funding" and a new section about grants and funding has been added to the PubMed User Guide. These updates to the field ...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so23/so23_pubmed_gr_field_renamed.html

Comparative genomics analyses are a powerful tool for scientific discovery. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Comparative Genomics Resource (CGR) is a freely accessible online suite of tool...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so23/brief/so23_cgr_webinar.html

Through live demonstrations and hands-on exercises, this course will introduce you to common data elements (CDEs) and the NIH Common Data Element Repository (CDE-R). The course begins with an in-...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so23/brief/so23-cder_live_training.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the September 2023 International Edition of SNOMED CT is available for download.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so23/brief/so23_september_snomed_international_edition.html

The National Library of Medicine is pleased to announce that 60 Test Your Knowledge quizzes from the A.D.A.M. Medical Encyclopedia have been added to MedlinePlus (see Figure 1) and MedlinePlus en...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so23/so23_medlineplus_quiz.html

The RxNorm September 2023 monthly release became available on Tuesday, September 5, 2023.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so23/brief/so23_rxnorm_september_release.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the September 2023 US Edition of SNOMED CT is available for download. This release contains 163 new active concepts specific to the U...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so23/brief/so23_september_snomed_us_edition.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) Classification has been updated. NLM is committed to regularly updating and revising the NLM Classification based on advancements in science and current eve...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so23/brief/so23_summer_classification_available.html

Join us for another National Library of Medicine (NLM) Office Hours on Tuesday, October 3, 2023, from 2:00-2:45 p.m. EDT to learn about the ClinicalTrials.gov Protocol Registration and Results Sy...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so23/brief/so23_office_hours_clinicaltrials_prs.html

Join us for the next National Library of Medicine (NLM) Office Hours on Tuesday, September 26, 2023 from 3:00-3:45 p.m. EDT to learn about the modernized ClinicalTrials.gov. Christina Robinson, f...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja23/brief/ja23_office_hours_clinicaltrials.html

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) collaborated with publishers and scholarly societies to expand access to coronavirus-related journal articles in PubMed Cent...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja23/ja23_pmc_covid_collection.html

Our popular class Standardize Your Research with the NIH Common Data Element Repository is now available in an on-demand format. Through recorded demonstrations and hands-on exercises, this cours...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja23/brief/ja23_cder_training.html

Important changes made to the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) in 2024 can be previewed on the What’s New in MeSH page and at the following links:

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja23/brief/ja23_mesh_2024_preview.html

Editor's Note: To help trainers teach MedlinePlus, the content from the MedlinePlus Tutorial for Librarians and Health Educators has been adapted into a slide deck titled, Introduction to Medline...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so21/brief/so21_medlineplus_revised_tutorial.html

Do you want to learn more about how to use Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) in cataloging? Then this course is for you!

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja23/brief/ja23_cataloging_with_mesh_training.html

Proximity searching is now available in PubMed for the Affiliation field in addition to the Title and Title/Abstract fields. Proximity searching in PubMed was introduced in November 2022; for mor...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja23/ja23_pubmed_proximity_searching_affiliation.html

The RxNorm August 2023 monthly release became available on Monday, August 7, 2023. There are no major data changes to report.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja23/brief/ja23_rxnorm_august_release.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the July 2023 International Edition of SNOMED CT is available for download.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja23/brief/ja23_july_snomed_international_edition.html

October 2023 SNOMED International Business Meetings and SNOMED CT Expo 2023 13 In-person and Virtual: October 21 - 27, 2023, Atlanta, GA

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja23/ja23_snomed_int_meeting.html

The Sort by" drop-down menu used to change the sort order of PubMed search results has been moved out of the "Display options" button and now appears as a standalone feature at the top of the sea...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja23/brief/ja23_july_pubmed_updates.html

Join us for the next National Library of Medicine (NLM) Office Hours on Wednesday, August 23, 2023 from 3:00-4:00 p.m. EDT to find out what's new with PubMed. Amanda Sawyer from the National Cent...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja23/brief/ja23_office_hours_pubmed.html

Presentation slides and Q&A from the NLM Update are now available. The NLM Update occurred on Friday, May 19, 2023, 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. ET, during the Medical Library Association (MLA) Annual M...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma23/ma23_nlm_mla_conference.html

Drug and Chemical Information – On Demand is a revised series of self-paced courses designed to introduce you to National Library of Medicine (NLM) products that provide drug and chemical info...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja23/brief/ja23_drug_chemical_updated_series.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the June 2023 International Edition of SNOMED CT is available for download.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja23/brief/ja23_snomed_int_release.html

During the COVID-19 pandemic, we provided the NCBI SARS-CoV-2 Resources Page as a central location to help you quickly and easily find our SARS-CoV-2 related content and tools. Since the federal ...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj23/mj23_covid_page_redirect.html

Today, ClinicalTrials.gov Beta, the modernized version of ClinicalTrials.gov, becomes the primary ClinicalTrials.gov. The modernized website has an updated design that is visually appealing and e...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj23/mj23_clinicaltrials_website.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce a new Clinical Observations Recordings and Encoding (CORE) Problem List Subset of SNOMED CT is now available for download by UMLS L...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj23/brief/mj23_snowmed_may_core.html

Join us for the next National Library of Medicine (NLM) Office Hours on Wednesday, June 28, 2023 at 2:00 p.m. EST. This session will focus on Spanish language consumer health information in Medli...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj23/brief/mj23_nlm_office_hours_medlineplus_espanol.html

The RxNorm June 2023 monthly release became available on Monday, June 5, 2023. There are no major data changes to report.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj23/brief/mj23_rxnorm_june_release.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the May 2023 EDQM Dose Forms to SNOMED CT Map package is available for download. This is the first Production release of this product...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj23/brief/mj23_may_edqm_dose_forms_snomed.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the May 2023 International Edition of SNOMED CT is available for download.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj23/brief/mj23_may_snomed_international_edition.html

As part of the ClinicalTrials.gov modernization effort, updated versions of the protocol registration modules are now available in the Protocol Registration and Results System (PRS) Beta. The bas...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj23/mj23_prs_2023_modernization.html

The RxNorm May 2023 monthly release became available on Monday, May 1, 2023 and includes changes to over-the-counter cough, cold, and flu packs.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj23/brief/mj23_rxnorm_may_release.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the April 2023 International Edition of SNOMED CT is available for download.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj23/brief/mj23_snowmed_april_edition.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the April 2023 SNOMED CT Spanish Edition is available for download. 

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj23/brief/mj23_snowmed_april_spanish_edition.html

The 2023AA release of the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) Knowledge Sources is available for download as of May 1, 2023.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj23/mj23_umls_2023aa_release.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the April 2023 SNOMED CT MedDRA Simple Map package is available for download. This release is dependent upon, and should therefore b...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj23/brief/mj23_april_snomed_meddra_map.html

MLA’23 Annual Meeting – In-person: May 16 – 19, 2023, Detroit, MI

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma23/ma23_nlm_mla_conference.html

As previously announced, we are making changes to prokaryote phylum names in accordance with the recent inclusion of rank "phylum" in the International Code of Nomenclature for Prokaryotes (ICNP)...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma23/ma23_ncbi_taxonomy_names.html

PubMed Central (PMC) has a large and diverse user base that includes students and the public, as well as researchers, clinicians, and librarians. PMC recognizes that these different audiences hav...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma23/ma23_pmc_disclaimer.html

The UMLS Metathesaurus Vocabulary Documentation provides basic information about the source vocabularies represented in the UMLS Metathesaurus.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma23/ma23_umls_vocab_doc.html

Want to learn more about the upcoming changes to the ClinicalTrials.gov website and progress on the beta Protocol Registration and Results System (PRS)? The ClinicalTrials.gov team is hosting...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma23/ma23_clinicaltrials_public_meeting.html

Learn how to use the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) for expert PubMed searching in this hands-on, self-paced course.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma23/brief/ma23_pubmed_topic_searching_mesh.html

MedlinePlus Connect is a tool that enables the integration of MedlinePlus patient education resources into external systems like electronic health record systems, patient portals, and other appli...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma23/brief/ma23_medlineplus_connect_class_updated.html

The RxNorm April 2023 monthly release became available on Monday, April 3, 2023 and there are no major changes to report.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma23/brief/ma23_rxnorm_april_release.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the March 2023 International Edition of SNOMED CT is available for download.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma23/brief/ma23_snomed_international_mar_release.html

Earlier this year, the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), part of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), introduced the GenBank and SRA Data Processing webpage to provide more...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma23/ma23_sra_data_status_change.html

NLM reviews hundreds of applications annually to select new journals for inclusion in MEDLINE and PubMed Central (PMC), the two primary components of PubMed. Once added to MEDLINE or PMC, NLM exp...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma23/ma23_medline_pmc_publication_changes.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the Medical Library Association (MLA) have a longstanding collaborative relationship to improve public health and advance medical progress by providing ...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma23/ma23_nlm_mla_fireside_chat.html

PubMed has been updated to streamline the display of lengthy author lists in search results. When viewing search results in the Summary display format, author lists are now truncated after 1,200 ...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma23/ma23_pubmed_update_usability_citations.html

The RxNorm March 2023 monthly release became available on Monday, March 6, 2023 and there are no major changes to report.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma23/brief/ma23_rxnorm_march_release.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the March 2023 US Edition of SNOMED CT is available for download. This release contains 398 new active concepts specific to the US Ex...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma23/brief/ma23_march_snomed_us_edition.html

Through live demonstrations and hands-on exercises, this course will introduce you to common data elements (CDEs) and the NIH Common Data Element Repository (CDE-R). The course begins with an in-...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma23/brief/ma23_cde_repository.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the February 2023 International Edition of SNOMED CT is available for download.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma23/brief/ma23_snomed_international_feb_release.html

You asked, we listened! Since the launch of the updated PubMed Central (PMC) website in March 2022, we responded to your feedback by making several improvements to help you better access PMC. The...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf23/jf23_pmc_enhancements.html

Every year, the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) are updated. How does this affect your PubMed searches? What happens when a term gets changed, added, or moved to a different part of the MeSH hier...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf23/brief/jf23_mesh_pubmed_on_demand_course.html

Join us for the next National Library of Medicine (NLM) Office Hours on Friday, March 31, 2023 at noon Eastern Time. This session will focus on the new proximity searching feature in PubMed. Aman...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf23/brief/jf23_office-hours_pubmed.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has expanded the eligibility requirements for PubMed Central (PMC), NLM's full-text digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature, to c...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf23/jf23_pmc_spanish_language_journals.html

As part of the ClinicalTrials.gov modernization effort, a new draft application programming interface (API) has been added to the ClinicalTrials.gov Beta website. During modernization, the classi...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf23/jf23_clinicaltrials_draft_api.html

The List of Serials Indexed for Online Users (LSIOU), 2023 edition, is now available in XML format. The 2023 edition contains 15,400 serial titles, including 5,280 titles currently indexed for ...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf23/brief/jf23_list_of_serials_indexed.html

The major focus of the 2023 winter edition was the evaluation of the 2023 MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) vocabulary for inclusion in the Classification index. Several additions and changes were ...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf23/jf23_nlm_classification_2023_winter_edition.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the January 2023 International Edition of SNOMED CT is available for download.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf23/brief/jf23_snomed_january_release.html

The Wireless Information System for Emergency Responders (WISER) including the WISER website, WebWISER, and the standalone applications for Windows PCs, iOS app, and Android app, will be disconti...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf23/jf23_wiser_discontinued.html

The My MedlinePlus and Mi MedlinePlus newsletters have been discontinued as of December 31, 2022. Find trusted, reliable health information written for consumers from the NIH News in Health newsl...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf23/jf23_medlineplus_newsletters_discontinued.html

Last month, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) announced plans to extend its NIH Preprint Pilot in PubMed Central (PMC) and PubMed beyond COVID-19 to encompass all preprints reporting on NIH-...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf23/jf23_next_phase_preprint_pilot.html

Comparative genomics is a science that compares genomic data either within a species or across species to answer questions in biomedicine. Laboratory experiments can then investigate the function...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf23/jf23_ncbi_cgr.html

NLM offers a one-year remote residency fellowship for early-career and second-career librarians interested in a career in health sciences librarianship. We offer opportunities to launch your care...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf23/brief/jf23_associate_fellowship_webinar.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the December 2022 International Edition of SNOMED CT is available for download.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf23/brief/jf23_december_2022_snomed_international.html

The RxNorm January 2023 monthly release became available on Tuesday, January 3, 2022 and includes a separate RxNorm Concept Unique Identifier (RXCUI) of 2621572 for the Humalog Tempo Pen insulin ...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf23/brief/jf23_rxnorm_release.html

Seats are still available for the class, Bioinformatics and Biology Essentials for Librarians. Sign up now. This class begins on January 17, 2023.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd22/brief/nd22_bioinformatics_biology_essentials_training.html

The MedlinePlus and MedlinePlus en español homepages will be refreshed in early January and we encourage you to visit.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd22/brief/nd22_medlineplus_homepages_refreshed.html

PubMed, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) free online database of the world's biomedical literature, recently attained a major milestone when the 35 millionth journal citation was added to t...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd22/brief/nd22_pubmed_milestone.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) provides multiple free online resources with drug and chemical information.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd22/nd22_drug_and_chemical_resources.html

On December 7, 2022, MEDLINE attained a major milestone when the 30 millionth journal citation was added to the database. This count includes citations created from the OLDMEDLINE project.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd22/brief/nd22_medline_milestone.html

This article collects the notable data changes made to MEDLINE during the National Library of Medicine (NLM) annual maintenance known as Year-End Processing (YEP) for 2023:

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd22/nd22_medline_mesh_data_changes_2023.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) adopted the 2023 MeSH vocabulary for cataloging on December 6, 2022. For additions and changes to MeSH terminology for 2023, see What's New in MeSH.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd22/nd22_2023_mesh_in_cataloging.html

The RxNorm December 2022 monthly release became available on Monday, December 5, 2022 and includes five new concepts for Divigel estrogen products.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd22/brief/nd22_rxnorm_december_release.html

The September, October, November, and December 2022 monthly files are now available for download. There is no file for August 2022. These monthly files include the MeSH Descriptors and Qualifiers...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd22/brief/nd22_mesh_marc_files_2023.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the November 2022 International Edition of SNOMED CT is available for download.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd22/brief/nd22_november_snomed_international.html

The National Library of Medicine is pleased to announce proximity search capabilities have been added to PubMed. Users can now search for multiple terms appearing in any order within a specified ...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd22/nd22_pubmed_proximity_search_available.html

Please join the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the Network of the National Library Medicine (NNLM) Training Office for three events in January 2023. The events will introduce you to 2023 ...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd22/brief/nd22_mesh_events.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce four new SNOMED CT International Edition refsets are available for download.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd22/brief/nd22_snomed_refset_available.html

Amanda K. Rinehart, MLIS, MS, Life Sciences Librarian, The Ohio State University, will deliver the 2022 Joseph Leiter NLM/Medical Library Association (MLA) Lecture. The lecture is open to the pub...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd22/nd22_leiter_mla.html

Learn about bioinformatics, the data science of biology! The Network of the National Library of Medicine is pleased to open registration for the tenth cohort of Bioinformatics and Biology Essenti...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd22/brief/nd22_bioinformatics_biology_essentials_training.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce a new Clinical Observations Recordings and Encoding (CORE) Problem List Subset of SNOMED CT is now available for download by UMLS Li...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd22/brief/nd22_snomed_CORE_available.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is currently involved in MEDLINE year-end processing (YEP) activities. These include changing the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) main headings and subheadi...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd22/nd22_medline_pubmed_yep.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the July 2022 ICNP SNOMED CT Nursing Practice Refset package is available for download. This package is dependent upon the July 202...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd22/brief/nd22_snomed_icnp_available.html

The 2022AB release of the Unified Medical Language System® (UMLS) Knowledge Sources is available for download as of November 7, 2022.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd22/nd22_umls_2022ab_release_available.html

The RxNorm November 2022 monthly release became available on Monday, November 7, 2022.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd22/brief/nd22_rxnorm_november_release.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the July 2022 SNOMED CT Orphanet Map package is available for download. This package is dependent upon the July 2022 SNOMED CT Inte...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd22/brief/nd22_july_2022_snomed_ct_orphanet_map.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) provides millions of people access to health information via its portfolio of products and services. Some people may need to access NLM 19s resources in spe...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd22/brief/nd22_api_webinar.html

The September-October 2022 issue of the NLM Technical Bulletin is now complete.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/issue_complete.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the October 2022 International Edition of SNOMED CT is available for download.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd22/brief/nd22_snomed_international_available.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the October 2022 SNOMED CT Spanish Edition is available for download.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd22/brief/nd22_snomed_spanish_available.html

Join us for the next National Library of Medicine (NLM) Office Hours on the NCBI Bookshelf, a source for free online access to books and documents in life science and healthcare. This session wil...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so22/brief/so22_office-hours_bookshelf.html

New features were recently added to the LocatorPlus Catalog.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so22/so22_locatorplus_catalogue.html

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is pleased to announce an upcoming virtual workshop that is now accepting applications. The NCBI Education Team invites you to apply and s...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so22/brief/so22_ncbi_workshop_rppr.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the September 2022 International Edition of SNOMED CT is available for download.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so22/brief/so22_september_snomed_ct_international.html

Updated PubMed E-utilities Launching on November 15, 2022e42022 September 14

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so22/so22_issue_cover.html

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is pleased to announce an upcoming virtual workshop that is now accepting applications. The NCBI Education Team invites you to apply and s...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so22/brief/so22_ncbi_workshop_3d_molecular_structures.html

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is pleased to announce an upcoming virtual workshop that is now accepting applications. The NCBI Education Team invites you to apply and s...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so22/brief/so22_ncbi_workshop_metagenomic_data.html

Updated PubMed E-utilities Launching on November 15, 2022e42022 September 14

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so22/so22_issue_cover.html

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is pleased to announce two upcoming virtual workshops that are now accepting applications. The NCBI Education Team invites you to apply an...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so22/brief/so22_ncbi_workshop_blast.html

PubMed will be moving to an updated version of the E-utilities API on November 15, 2022. As previously announced, this updated version of E-utilities will use the same technology as the web ve...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so22/so22_updated_pubmed_e_utilities.html

On October 3, 2022, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) will introduce a new discovery platform for finding aids to its historical archival collections available at https://findingaids.nlm.nih...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so22/so22_archivesspace_oct_platform.html

On August 11, 2022, four new Medical Subject Headings Supplementary Concept Records (MeSH SCR) were added to the 2022 MeSH Browser in response to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services�...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so22/so22_mesh_monkeypox.html

The July - August 2022 issue of the NLM Technical Bulletin is now complete.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/issue_complete.html

The NLM Classification was updated on August 31, 2022. NLM is committed to regularly updating and revising the NLM Classification based on advancements in science and current events. Each year NL...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so22/so22_nlm_classification.html

Do you want to standardize the data you collect so it can be easily shared with colleagues and other researchers? Have you been awarded a grant that requires the use of common data elements (CDEs...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so22/brief/so22_stand_cde-r.html

The RxNorm September 2022 monthly release became available on Tuesday, September 6, 2022. The RxNorm September release includes updated Prescribable Name (PSN) synonyms for Paxlovid-related pack ...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so22/brief/so22_rxnorm_september_release.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the August 2022 International Edition of SNOMED CT is available for download.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so22/brief/so22_august_snomed_ct_international.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the September 2022 US Edition of SNOMED CT is available for download. This release contains 662 new active concepts specific to the U...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so22/brief/so22_snomed_ct_us_sep_download.html

Since the launch of the updated PubMed Central (PMC) website in March, the PMC team has been gathering user feedback and making incremental improvements to the article display. As part of this ef...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja22/ja22_pmc_related_resources.html

Join us for the next National Library of Medicine (NLM) Office Hours, which is all about PubMed. This session will include a brief presentation by Susan Schmidt from NLM's Index Section who will ...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja22/brief/ja22_nlm_office_hours_pubmed.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce two new UMLS Terminology Services features:

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja22/ja22_uts_new_feature.html

Starting in December 2022, PubChem will serve as NLM's single source for chemical information. NLM is retiring ChemIDplus and the Drug Information Portal, two other chemical property information ...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja22/ja22_pubchem.html

Are you a health educator or librarian looking for the best quality consumer health information?

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja22/brief/ja22_medlineplus_tutorial_for_librarians_spanish.html

The PubMed journals translation table has been updated to include journal names without initial articles such as: the, le, la, a, an, etc. This means that such journal titles can now be searched ...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja22/ja22_pubmed_journals_search.html

The RxNorm August 2022 monthly release became available on Monday, August 1, 2022 and includes a new Novavax COVID-19 vaccine concept.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja22/brief/ja22_rxnorm_august_release.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the July 2022 International Edition of SNOMED CT is available for download.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja22/brief/ja22_july_snomed_ct_international_release.html

Learn about bioinformatics, the data science of biology!

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja22/brief/ja22_bioinformatics_librarians_class.html

PubChem is the National Library of Medicine 19s (NLM's) open chemistry database and one of the largest freely accessible reference tools for chemical information. A new, free, self-paced PubChem ...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja22/brief/ja22_pubchem_tutorial.html

The RxNorm July 2022 monthly release became available on Tuesday, July 5, 2022, and includes a new dose form "Drug-Eluting Contact Lens" and a new concept for Lagevrio, which is a brand name COVI...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja22/brief/ja22_rxnorm_july_release.html

The May - June Issue (number 446) of the National Library of Medicine Technical Bulletin is Complete.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/issue_complete.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the June 2022 International Edition of SNOMED CT is available for download.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja22/brief/ja22_snomed_ct_international_release.html

Join us for a special NLM Office Hours Listening Session, focused on Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) terms related to population groups.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj22/brief/mj22_nlm_office_hours_mesh_listening_session.html

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is pleased to announce an upcoming virtual workshop that is now accepting applications. The NCBI Education Team invites you to apply and s...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj22/brief/mj22_ncbi_workshop_molecular_analysis.html

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is pleased to announce an upcoming virtual workshop that is now accepting applications. The NCBI Education Team invites you to apply and s...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj22/brief/mj22_ncbi_workshop_cloud_computing.html

The RxNorm June 2022 monthly release became available on Monday, June 6, 2022, and includes several COVID-19 medication updates.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj22/brief/mj22_rxnorm_june_release.html

Join us for the next National Library of Medicine (NLM) Office Hours on Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)! MeSH is a controlled and hierarchically-organized vocabulary produced by NLM. It is used f...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj22/brief/mj22_nlm_office_hours.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the May 2022 International Edition of SNOMED CT is available for download.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj22/brief/mj22_may_2022_snomed_ct_international.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the May 2022 SNOMED CT MedDRA Simple Map package is available for download. This release is dependent upon, and should therefore be ...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj22/brief/mj22_snomed_meddra_simple_map.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce a new Clinical Observations Recordings and Encoding (CORE) Problem List Subset of SNOMED CT is now available for download by UMLS L...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj22/brief/mj22_core_problem_list_snomed.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the April 2022 International Edition of SNOMED CT is available for download.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj22/brief/mj22_april_2022_snomed_ct_international.html

The March-April 2022 issue of the NLM Technical Bulletin is now complete.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/issue_complete.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce that the April 2022 SNOMED CT Spanish Edition is available for download.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj22/brief/mj22_snomed_ct_spanish.html

The RxNorm May 2022 monthly release became available for download on Monday, May 2, 2022, and includes the second booster dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj22/brief/mj22_rxnorm_may_release.html

The 2022AA release of the Unified Medical Language System® (UMLS) Knowledge Sources is available for download as of May 2, 2022.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj22/mj22_umls_2022aa_release.html

MLA’22 Annual Meeting: April 27–May 6, 2022

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma22/ma22_nlm_at_mla_2022.html

The NIH Common Data Elements Repository (CDE-R) team is pleased to announce the publication of the first collection of NIH-Endorsed Common Data Elements. The Project 5 Tier 1 CDEs are intended to...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma22/ma22_enhancements_nih_cder.html

As part of ongoing efforts to ensure the availability of data and information essential to scientific discovery and pandemic response, NLM's Sequence Read Archive (SRA) team has reassigned the st...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma22/ma22_nlm_sra.html

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is pleased to announce an upcoming virtual workshop that is now accepting applications. The NCBI Education Team invites you to apply and s...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma22/brief/ma22_ncbi_genes.html

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is pleased to announce an upcoming virtual workshop that is now accepting applications. The NCBI Education Team invites you to apply and s...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma22/brief/ma22_ncbi_gdv.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the March 2022 International Edition of SNOMED CT is available for download.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma22/brief/ma22_snomed_ct_international.html

The RxNorm April monthly release became available for download on Monday, April 4, 2022. There are no major data changes to report.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma22/brief/ma22_rxnorm_april_release.html

The DOCLINE® team from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the first release of a set of new or revised interactive tutorials on using DOCLINE, “How to Place an Inter...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma22/brief/ma22_docline_tutorial_interlibrary_loan.html

On April 15, 2022, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) History of Medicine (HMD) Finding Aids Consortium (https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/consortium/index.html) will be retired due to declining us...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma22/ma22_hmd_finding_aids.html

We have launched a fresh look and feel to the PubMed Central (PMC) website, which marks the first step of an ongoing modernization effort. The updated website (see Figure 1) will allow us to mak...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma22/ma22_new_pmc_website.html

The far-reaching multi-media report and related website of the 2005 Commission on Systematic Interoperability, Ending the Document Game: Connecting and Transforming Your Healthcare Through Inform...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma22/ma22_bookshelf_report.html

The RxNorm March 2022 monthly release became available for download on Monday, March 7, 2022 and includes COMIRNATY, the brand name product for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma22/brief/ma22_rxnorm_march_release.html

Join us for the next National Library of Medicine (NLM) Office Hours with staff from PubMed Central (PMC). This session will include a brief demo of the new PMC interface. Staff will also be avai...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma22/brief/ma22_nlm_office_hours.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the March 2022 US Edition of SNOMED CT is available for download. This release contains 279 new active concepts specific to the US Ex...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma22/brief/ma22_snomed_ct_us_edition.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the February 2022 International Edition of SNOMED CT is available for download. This is the first monthly release of the Internationa...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma22/brief/ma22_february_2022_snomed_international_release.html

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is pleased to announce an upcoming virtual workshop that is now accepting applications. The NCBI Education Team invites you to apply and s...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma22/brief/ma22_ncbi_workshop_data.html

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is pleased to announce an upcoming virtual workshop that is now accepting applications. The NCBI Education Team invites you to apply and s...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma22/brief/ma22_ncbi_workshop_tools.html

The major focus of the 2022 winter edition of the NLM Classification was the evaluation of the 2022 MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) vocabulary for inclusion in the Classification index. Several a...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf22/jf22_nlm_classification_winter_2022.html

The RxNorm February 2022 monthly release became available for download on Monday, February 7, 2022, and has a significant reduction in active National Drug Codes (NDCs) compared to last month’s...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf22/brief/jf22_rxnorm_february_release.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) wants to ensure that results retrieved using the PubMed search "Best Match" ranking algorithm provide access to citations of all relevant literature. To thi...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf22/brief/jf22_ncbi_codeathon.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the January 2022 International Edition of SNOMED CT is available for download.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf22/brief/jf22_snomed_international_release.html

In the coming weeks, we will be launching an updated PubMed Central (PMC) website with a modern design. You can try the updated version on PMC Labs now, and it will become the default design ...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf22/jf22_pmc_update_launch.html

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is pleased to announce two more virtual workshops in February. The NCBI Education Team invites you to apply and share these opportunities ...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf22/brief/jf22_ncbi_workshops.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) staff and the Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM) staff invite you to join us to talk about NLM’s products. Each office hour will feature a...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf22/brief/jf22_nlm_office_hours.html

The RxNorm January monthly release became available for download on Monday, January 3, 2022 and contains three COVID-19 related medications: Evusheld, Paxlovid, and molnupiravir. 

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf22/brief/jf22_rxnorm_january_release.html

The November - December 2021 issue of the NLM Technical Bulletin is complete.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/issue_complete.html

As of December 14, 2021, MEDLINE/PubMed citations and the MeSH translation tables were updated to reflect 2022 MeSH with full searching functionality for Supplementary Concept Record (SCR) data a...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd21/brief/nd21_medline_2022_mesh_pubmed.html

This article collects the notable data changes made to MEDLINE during the National Library of Medicine (NLM) annual maintenance known as Year-End Processing (YEP) for 2022:

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd21/nd21_medline_data_changes_2022.html

Please join the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the Network of the National Library Medicine (NNLM) Training Office for two events in January 2022, introducing you to 2022 Medical Subject ...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd21/brief/nd21_mesh_2022_classes.html

The List of Serials Indexed for Online Users (LSIOU), 2022 edition, is now available in XML format. The 2022 edition contains 15,366 serial titles, including 5,279 titles currently indexed for ME...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd21/brief/nd21_lsiou_2022.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce a new Clinical Observations Recordings and Encoding (CORE) Problem List Subset of SNOMED CT is now available for download by UMLS L...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd21/brief/nd21_core_problem_list_snomed.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) adopted the 2022 MeSH vocabulary for cataloging on December 9, 2021. For additions and changes to MeSH terminology for 2022, see What's New in MeSH. Implica...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd21/nd21_2022_mesh_in_cataloging.html

The first beta release of the ClinicalTrials.gov modernization effort is now available. The beta website launched with foundational site features that will be expanded over time, providing a glim...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd21/nd21_clinical_trials_beta.html

The RxNorm December monthly release became available for download on Monday, December 6, 2021, and contains the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children 5 through 11 years of age.  

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd21/brief/nd21_rxnorm_december_release.html

Join the DOCLINE team on Wednesday, December 15, 2021, from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. ET for an overview of key system features. We will also provide a glimpse of our roadmap for the next year! Please su...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd21/brief/nd21_docline_webinar.html

Join us on Friday, December 10, 2021, from 1:00 to 1:45 p.m. ET for an update on the modernization effort and demonstration of the beta ClinicalTrials.gov website.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd21/brief/nd21_clinical_trials_webinar.html

The October, November, and December 2021 monthly MeSH MARC files are now available for download. There is no file for September 2021. These monthly files include the Descriptors and Qualifiers fo...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd21/brief/nd21_marc_files_2022_mesh.html

As part of the efforts of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to transform and accelerate biomedical discovery and improve health and health care, we are transitioning to automated MeSH indexi...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd21/nd21_medline_2022.html

In December 2021, the FDA Substance Registration System (FDA SRS) will move from the National Library of Medicine to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. FDA SRS is a resource for searching and...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd21/nd21_fda_srs.html

Learn about bioinformatics, the data science of biology! The Network of the National Library of Medicine is pleased to open registration for the eighth cohort of Bioinformatics and Biology Essent...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd21/brief/nd21_bioinformatics_training_class.html

Starting on November 30, 2021, the following alternative domains will no longer be active or redirect to National Library of Medicine (NLM) resources:

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd21/brief/nd21_medlineplus_nlm_website_redirects_discontinued.html

On Tuesday, December 14, 2021, join the staff of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) for a virtual workshop on using Python to work with NCBI data.Learn how to tackle bigge...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd21/brief/nd21_ncbi_workshop_python.html

On Thursday, December 16, 2021, join the staff of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in a virtual workshop for researchers on PubMed and related resources.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd21/brief/nd21_pubmed_pmc_myncbi_workshop.html

Join us on Monday, December 6, 2021, from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. ET to catch up with PubMed. This webinar will provide attendees with an update on recent changes, improvements, and developments with ...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd21/brief/nd21_pubmed_webinar.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the October 2021 SNOMED CT Spanish Edition is available for download.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd21/brief/nd21_snomed_spanish_release.html

In June, we announced the arrival of PMC Labs, where you can test drive the work underway to create a more modern PMC website (see Figure 1). Since then, we've continued to talk to users, gather ...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd21/nd21_pmc_labs.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce that six new SNOMED CT-related releases are available for download.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd21/brief/nd21_six_snomed_releases.html

The 2021AB release of the Unified Medical Language System® (UMLS) Knowledge Sources is available for download as of November 1, 2021.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd21/nd21_umls_release.html

The PubMed search results interface has been updated to support user-friendly, flexible navigation. Based on user feedback, page navigation is now available at the top and bottom of search result...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd21/nd21_pubmed_interface_update.html

The RxNorm November monthly release became available for download on Monday, November 1, 2021, and contains a new concept for Restasis single-use vials (RXCUI 2572293).  

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd21/brief/nd21_rxnorm_november_release.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) would like to make users aware of a new July 2021 SNOMED CT Orphanet Map package. This is the first production release of the July 2021 SNOMED CT Orphanet M...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd21/brief/nd21_snomed_ct_orphanet_map.html

The September-October 2021 issue of the NLM Technical Bulletin is complete.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/issue_complete.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) would like to make users aware of a new July 2021 SNOMED CT ICNP Nursing Practice Refset. This is the first Production release of the July 2021 ICNP SNOMED ...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so21/brief/so21_snomed_icnp_nursing_refset.html

As of Monday, October 25, 2021, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) will no longer be supplying Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) RDF Unique Resource Identifiers (URIs) in subfield $0 of the 65X...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so21/so21_mesh_rdf_uri.html

What are preprints, and how are they changing the way biomedical research results are shared? Should you use information from preprints? Should you share your own research results in a preprint? ...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so21/brief/so21_preprint_tutorial.html

In April, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) announced an Update on PubMed Specialized Search Queries: Selected Queries No Longer Updated; Remain Available for Download and Customization.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so21/so21_pubmed_queries.html

On Tuesday, November 16, 2021, join the staff of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) for a virtual workshop on NCBI Cloud Computing.As DNA sequencing becomes a commonplace to...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so21/brief/so21_ncbi_workshop_cloud_computing.html

October 2021 marks the 50th anniversary of MEDLINE! MEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine's (NLM's) premier bibliographic database that contains more than 28 million references to journal a...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so21/so21_medline_anniversary.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is currently involved in MEDLINE year-end processing (YEP) activities. These include changing the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) main headings and subheadi...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so21/so21_medline_pubmed_yep.html

On Thursday, November 9, 2021, join the staff of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) for a virtual workshop on Primer-BLAST, NCBI's software tool that designs target-specific...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so21/brief/so21_ncbi_primer_blast_webinar.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce that MedlinePlus Connect now supports CPT® (Current Procedural Terminology) queries. Upon receiving a request containing a CPT® cod...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so21/so21_medlineplus_connect.html

Making research data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) starts well before data collection. Designing studies with common data elements (CDEs) can enable data sharing and re...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so21/brief/so21_cde_tutorial.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce that we are now fulfilling interlibrary loan (ILL) requests from our print collection. We appreciate your interest and your patience ...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so21/brief/so21_interlibrary_loan_requests.html

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is pleased to announce the new NCBI Virtual Workshop Series. The workshop series aims to engage and educate people who use the NCBI resour...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so21/brief/so21_ncbi_virtual_workshops.html

2021 marks the 70th anniversary of the NLM Classification. The first edition of the classification was published in 1951 as the U.S. Army Medical Library Classification. The name changed to the N...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so21/so21_nlm_classification_summer_2021.html

Join us on October 7, 2021, from 1:30 to 2:00 p.m. ET for an update on the ClinicalTrials.gov modernization effort. To learn more about the modernization efforts and information on the anticipat...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so21/brief/so21_clinicaltrials_webinar.html

Drug and Chemical Information – On Demand is a new self-paced course that is available to introduce you to National Library of Medicine (NLM) products that provide drug and chemical information...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so21/brief/so21_drug_chemical_course.html

Free and useful training opportunities are available from the Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM)! Select from webinars, classes, and on-demand tutorials on a variety of topics rel...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so21/brief/so21_nnlm_trainings.html

MedlinePlus is the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) premier consumer health information portal. Librarians, teachers, healthcare professionals, community health representatives, peer counsel...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so21/brief/so21_medlineplus_revised_tutorial.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the September 2021 US Edition of SNOMED CT is available for download. This release contains 501 new active concepts specific to the U...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so21/brief/so21_snomed_ct_us_edition.html

The RxNorm September monthly release became available for download on Tuesday, September 7, 2021. It includes changes to several RxNorm Basis of Strength Substance (BoSS) attributes. Concepts for...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so21/brief/so21_rxnorm_september_release.html

The July-August 2021 issue of the NLM Technical Bulletin is complete.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/issue_complete.html

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. Univer...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja21/ja21_nlm_digital_collections.html

As communicated on May 10, 2021 in New Library Services Platform and Public Catalog Coming Soon, the WebVoyage Classic version of LocatorPlus and the SFX OpenURL link resolver, known as Get it @ ...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja21/ja21_locatorplus_catalog.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the July 2021 SNOMED CT International Edition is available for download.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja21/brief/ja21_snomed_ct_international.html

An alternate link to provide access to 2022 MeSH is available from the top navigation bar on the MeSH Browser homepage. The default year in the MeSH Browser remains 2021 MeSH for now.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja21/brief/ja21_mesh_headings.html

The PubMed Clinical Queries interface has been updated following a usability study to support user-friendly, efficient searching on clinical and disease-related topics. Clinical Queries currently...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja21/ja21_pubmed_clinical_queries.html

The National Library of Medicine Value Set Authority Center (VSAC) is pleased to announce the migration of our Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) Terminology Service for VSAC val...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja21/brief/ja21_vsac_fhir_r4_release.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is continuing to enhance the PubMed user experience based on usability testing, analytics, and feedback from users.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja21/ja21_pubmed_update.html

The Network of the National Library of Medicine is offering our "How PubMed Works" series in July. The classes are intended for librarians, other information professionals, and anyone interested ...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja21/brief/ja21_how_pubmed_works_class.html

The RxNorm July monthly release became available for download on Tuesday, July 6, 2021. It includes two new COVID-19-related clinical drug concepts. See below for more details. 

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja21/brief/ja21_rxnorm_july_release.html

The May-June 2021 issue of the NLM Technical Bulletin is complete.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/issue_complete.html

As part of a broader NLM reorganization, the Disaster Information Management Research Center (DIMRC) website was discontinued on June 21, 2021. Most of NLM's disaster health information services ...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj21/mj21_dimrc_update.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is updating PubMed Central (PMC) to a give you a more modern and easier to use site and we want your feedback. The first phase of this work is now on PMC La...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj21/mj21_pmc_labs.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce a new Clinical Observations Recordings and Encoding (CORE) Problem List Subset of SNOMED CT is now available for download by UMLS L...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj21/brief/mj21_new_core_problem_list_snomed.html

The RxNorm June monthly release became available for download on Monday, June 7, 2021.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj21/brief/mj21_rx_norm_june_release.html

In 2020, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) evaluated the current products and services of the National Information Center on Health Services Research & Health Care Technology (NICHSR) to ali...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj21/mj21_nichsr.html

With the implementation of the Alma Library Services Platform on June 8, 2021 (see New Library Services Platform and Public Catalog Coming Soon), the MARCXML format for cataloging records in Catf...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj21/mj21_marcxml_format_change.html

MLA vConference: May 10-27, 2021

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj21/mj21_mla_invite.html

In March 2020, we announced our plans to transition from the Voyager Integrated Library System to the Alma Library Services Platform. On June 8, 2021, NLM staff will begin using Alma for core lib...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj21/mj21_new_library_services_platform.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce that the April 2021 SNOMED CT Spanish Edition is available for download. 

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj21/brief/mj21_april_snomed_spanish.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) would like to make users aware of a new collaboration between SNOMED International and the International Council for Harmonisation of Technical Requirements...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj21/brief/mj21_snomed_ct_meddra_simple_map.html

The 2021AA release of the Unified Medical Language System® (UMLS) Knowledge Sources is available for download as of May 3, 2021.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj21/mj21_umls_2021aa_release.html

The RxNorm May monthly release became available for download on Monday, May 3, 2021. See below for upcoming data changes and related news.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj21/brief/mj21_rx_norm_may_release.html

ToxTutor has a new home at the University of California, Davis, as part of the Toxicology Mentoring and Skills Development Training (ToxMSDT) Program. ToxTutor is a free, self-paced tutorial that...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj21/mj21_toxtutor.html

ToxTutor has a new home at the University of California, Davis, as part of the Toxicology Mentoring and Skills Development Training (ToxMSDT) Program. ToxTutor is a free, self-paced tutorial that...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj21/mj21_toxtutor.html

In March 2020, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) announced a plan to transition from the Voyager Integrated Library System to the Alma Library Services Platform (see New Library Services Pla...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj21/brief/mj21_catfile_pause.html

The March-April 2021 issue of the NLM Technical Bulletin is complete.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/issue_complete.html

For years the National Library of Medicine (NLM) has maintained specialized subject searches on multiple topics. They were originally created to assist PubMed searchers in retrieving comprehens...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma21/ma21_pubmed_special_queries.html

Ten months into the NIH Preprint Pilot, more than 2,100 preprints reporting NIH-supported research on COVID-19 are now discoverable in PubMed Central (PMC) and PubMed. Through early April 2021, t...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma21/ma21_pmc_preprint_pilot_update.html

The Single Citation Matcher and Batch Citation Matcher have been updated to the new PubMed cloud environment. 

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma21/ma21_pubmed_single_and_batch_citation_matcher.html

The Cataloging and Metadata Management: Fundamentals of the NLM Classification e-learning course has been updated to reflect changes made with the 2020 release of the NLM Classification.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma21/brief/ma21_nlm_classification_course.html

The RxNorm April monthly release became available for download on Monday, April 5, 2021 and includes a new Qualitative Distinction modifier. See below for more details. 

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma21/brief/ma21_rx_norm_april_release.html

Join us for a webinar on human genetics resources through the NNLM Health Sciences Libraries Webinar Series.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma21/brief/ma21_ncbi_genetics_resources_webinar.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce a new Clinical Observations Recordings and Encoding (CORE) Problem List Subset of SNOMED CT is now available for download by UMLS L...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma21/brief/ma21_core_problem_list_snomed.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the March 2021 US Edition of SNOMED CT is available for download. This release contains 574 new active concepts specific to the US Ex...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma21/brief/ma21_snomed_ct_us_march.html

The RxNorm March monthly release became available for download on Monday, March 1, 2021. It includes several investigational drugs for the treatment of COVID-19, including etesevimab and packs fo...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma21/brief/ma21_rx_norm_march_release.html

The January-February 2021 issue of the NLM Technical Bulletin is complete.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/issue_complete.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) would like to remind users that cataloging records in CatfilePlus and Serfile are available for download in MARCXML format. NLM strongly encourages users of...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf21/brief/jf21_catfileplus_and_serfile.html

The List of Serials Indexed for Online Users (LSIOU), 2021 edition, is now available in XML format. The 2021 edition contains 15,291 serial titles, including 5,267 titles currently indexed for ME...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf21/jf21_serials_list_2021.html

Join us on March 3, 2021 to learn about changes to NCBI account logins that will affect those of you who sign in directly to your NCBI account. After June 1, 2021 you will need to log in using yo...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf21/brief/jf21_ncbi_account_changes.html

The 2021 MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) vocabulary was evaluated for inclusion in the Classification index. Several additions and changes were made to the Index and Schedules based on this revie...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf21/jf21_nlm_classification_winter_2021.html

On February 10th, 2021, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) launched a new MEDLINE website that provides a consolidated location for information regarding MEDLINE policies, history, statistics...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf21/jf21_new_medline_website.html

Join ClinicalTrials.gov for an update on the ClinicalTrials.gov modernization effort. The webinar will include information on the modernization efforts, the Request for Information (RFI), and way...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf21/brief/jf21_clinical_trials_webinar.html

The RxNorm February monthly release became available for download on Monday, February 1, 2021. See below for upcoming data changes and related news.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf21/brief/jf21_rx_norm_february_release.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the January 2021 SNOMED CT International Edition is available for download.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf21/brief/jf21_snomed_ct_international.html

Do you login to NCBI to use MyNCBI, SciENcv, or MyBibliography? Do you submit data to NCBI? If so, you'll want to read further to get a first glimpse at some important changes to NCBI accounts th...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf21/jf21_ncbi_login.html

The November-December 2020 issue of the NLM Technical Bulletin is complete.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/issue_complete.html

The RxNorm January monthly release became available for download on Monday, January 4, 2021. It includes two Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines, and a decrease in active National Drug C...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf21/brief/jf21_rx_norm_january_release.html

As of December 15, 2020, MEDLINE/PubMed citations and the MeSH translation tables were updated to reflect 2021 MeSH with full searching functionality for Supplementary Concept Record (SCR) data a...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd20/brief/nd20_medline_2021_mesh.html

Please join the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and Network of the National Library Medicine (NNLM) Training Office for two events in January 2021, introducing you to 2021 Medical Subject Head...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd20/brief/nd20_mesh_2021_classes.html

MeSH RDF has been updated to reflect the 2021 MeSH Vocabulary. You can download 2021 MeSH RDF from the MeSH Data links on the NLM Data Distribution page.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd20/brief/nd20_mesh_rdf_updated.html

MedlinePlus now has a social media toolkit available in both English and Spanish. Use the toolkit to share MedlinePlus resources on your social media or other communication channels to connect y...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd20/nd20_medlineplus_toolkit.html

NLM has created a new resource for librarians: the NIH Preprint Pilot Librarian Toolkit. This toolkit provides information and resources about the NIH Preprint Pilot, NLM’s latest project to i...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd20/brief/nd20_preprint_pilot_toolkit.html

The RxNorm December monthly release became available for download on Monday, December 7, 2020. It includes the investigational monoclonal antibodies casirivimab and imdevimab. UMLSAUI and UMLSCUI...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd20/brief/nd20_rx_norm_december_release.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) adopted the 2021 MeSH vocabulary for cataloging on December 7, 2020.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd20/nd20_cataloging_news_2021.html

This article collects the notable data changes made to MEDLINE during the National Library of Medicine (NLM) annual maintenance known as Year-End Processing (YEP) for 2021:

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd20/nd20_medline_data_changes_2021.html

Return to MEDLINE Data Changes—2021 article

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd20/nd20_mesh_covid_terms.html

In 2018, MeSH began adding NCBI taxonomy vocabulary into MeSH, starting with Virus terminology. This project has since been expanded to include Archaea, Bacteria, and Fungi. In 2020, MeSH began a...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd20/nd20_mesh_ncbi_taxonomy.html

In 2018, MeSH began adding NCBI taxonomy vocabulary into MeSH, starting with Virus terminology. This project has since been expanded to include Archaea, Bacteria, and Fungi. In 2020, MeSH began a...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd20/nd20_mesh_ncbi_taxonomy.html

This article collects the notable data changes made to MEDLINE during the National Library of Medicine (NLM) annual maintenance known as Year-End Processing (YEP) for 2021:

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd20/nd20_medline_data_changes_2021.html

Return to MEDLINE Data Changes—2021 article

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd20/nd20_mesh_covid_terms.html

The Network of the National Library of Medicine is pleased to open registration for the seventh cohort of Bioinformatics and Biology Essentials for Librarians: Databases, Tools, and Clinical Appl...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd20/brief/nd20_bioinfo_class.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce a new Clinical Observations Recordings and Encoding (CORE) Problem List Subset of SNOMED CT is now available for download by UMLS Lic...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd20/brief/nd20_snomed_ct_core_problem.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce October 2020 SNOMED CT Spanish Edition is available for download.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd20/brief/nd20_snomed_ct_spanish_release.html

The RxNorm November monthly release became available for download on Monday, November 2, 2020. It includes a remdesivir NDC change, and the UMLS Metathesaurus data is no longer updated in RxNorm....

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd20/brief/nd20_rx_norm_november_release.html

The 2020AB release of the Unified Medical Language System® (UMLS) Knowledge Sources is available for download as of November 2, 2020.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd20/nd20_umls_release.html

The September-October 2020 issue of the NLM Technical Bulletin is now complete

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/issue_complete.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce six new SNOMED CT related releases available for download.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so20/brief/so20_snomed_ct_releases.html

The PubMed Clinical Queries page will soon be updated with design and content changes. The new page design aligns with the new PubMed and includes a new category for COVID-19 searches. Links and ...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so20/so20_pubmed_clinical_queries.html

Since the early 1990s with the establishment of the National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR), the National Library of Medicine (NLM) has develop...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so20/brief/so20_nichsr_rfi.html

Prior to 2007, separate title abbreviations were assigned for GENBANK and PubMed. GENBANK carried International Organization for Standardization (ISO) title abbreviations (TAs) and PubMed had Nat...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so20/so20_nlm_ta_update.html

Since the new PubMed replaced the legacy site in May, NLM has continued to add improvements and features to the new site. Many of the most requested features since the new PubMed became the defau...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so20/so20_pubmed_update.html

The NCBI Allele Frequency Aggregator (ALFA) project makes frequency data from dbGaP data studies, previously under authorized access, available for open-access. These data will facilitate discove...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so20/so20_alfa_release.html

The RxNorm October monthly release became available for download on Monday, October 5, 2020 and includes a remdesivir NDC change and Regiocit, a drug allowed under the FDA’s Emergency Use Autho...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so20/brief/so20_rxnorm_october_release.html

Beginning with the 2020 summer edition, the NLM Classification has a new look and feel. With this new design comes a new URL (https://classification.nlm.nih.gov/). The old URL (https://www.nlm.ni...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so20/so20_nlm_classification_summer_2020.html

Starting on October 1, 2020, materials that are part of the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) HealthReach will become part of MedlinePlus, NLM's flagship website for health information for pat...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so20/so20_healthreach_medlineplus.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is currently involved in MEDLINE year-end processing (YEP) activities. These include changing the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) main headings and subheadi...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so20/so20_yep_overview.html

The RxNorm September monthly release became available for download on Tuesday, September 8, 2020 and includes unique ISMP Tall Man lettering names. See below for more details and other RxNorm cha...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so20/brief/so20_rxnorm_september_release.html

As of October 1, 2020, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) will no longer offer Genetics Home Reference as a stand-alone website. Most of the content from Genetics Home Reference will be avail...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so20/so20_ghr_medlineplus_merge.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the September 2020 SNOMED CT United States (US) Edition release is available for download by UMLS Licensees.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so20/brief/so20_snomed_ct_us_release.html

There will soon be a new look and feel to the NLM Classification. The new interface will be released in late September as part of the 2020 Summer edition update. With this new design and modified...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so20/brief/so20_classification_redesign.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the July 2020 SNOMED CT International Edition is available for download.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja20/brief/ja20_snomed_ct_intl_release.html

The July-August 2020 issue of the NLM Technical Bulletin is now complete.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/issue_complete.html

The Medical Library Association (MLA) vConference Live Action Week will run from August 10-August 14, 2020. We invite you to attend the following sessions and view our linked materials to learn m...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja20/ja20_mla_invite.html

On January 29, 2021 the National Library of Medicine's Pillbox program will be discontinued. This includes the Pillbox drug identification and search websites as well as production of the Pillbox...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja20/ja20_pillbox_discontinue.html

The RxNorm August monthly release became available for download on Monday, August 3, 2020 and includes the new Qualitative Distinction "Twice-Daily." See below for more details. 

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja20/brief/ja20_rxnorm_august_release.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the July 2020 SNOMED CT International Edition is available for download.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja20/brief/ja20_snomed_ct_intl_release.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the July 2020 SNOMED CT International Edition is available for download.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja20/brief/ja20_snomed_ct_intl_release.html

How PubMed Works On-Demand is an online, on-demand class made up of 4 modules. The class is offered in Moodle by the Network of the National Library of Medicine. The modules are intended for libr...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja20/brief/ja20_pubmed_online_class.html

Since the early 1990s and the establishment of the National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR), the National Library of Medicine (NLM) has taken st...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja20/brief/ja20_nichsr_webinar.html

Learn about the data science of biology: Bioinformatics!

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja20/brief/ja20_bioinfo_class.html

An alternate link to provide access to 2021 MeSH is available from the top navigation bar on the MeSH Browser homepage. The default year in the MeSH Browser remains 2020 MeSH for now.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja20/brief/ja20_mesh_headings.html

The ability to create an RSS feed is available in the new PubMed (see New PubMed to Replace Legacy PubMed in Mid-May for more information). The "Create RSS" link is available after running a sear...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja20/ja20_pubmed_updated.html

The RxNorm July monthly release became available for download on Monday, July 6, 2020. Highlights of the July release include a new NHRIC attribute in the MTHSPL data source, a new dose form, and...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja20/brief/ja20_rxnorm_july_release.html

The May-June 2020 issue of the NLM Technical Bulletin is now complete

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/issue_complete.html

NLM Technical Bulletin from the National Library of Medicine

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj20/mj20_pubmed_we_are_listening.html

On June 9, 2020, NLM launched a pilot project to test the viability of making preprints resulting from NIH-funded research available via PubMed Central (PMC). The primary goal of the NIH Preprint...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj20/mj20_preprint_pilot.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce a new Clinical Observations Recordings and Encoding (CORE) Problem List Subset of SNOMED CT is now available for download by UMLS Lic...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj20/brief/mj20_core_snomed.html

The Using PubMed in Evidence-Based Practice tutorial is available now from the PubMed Online Training page on the NLM Web site.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj20/brief/mj20_pubmed_for_ebp.html

The RxNorm June monthly release became available for download on Monday, June 1, 2020.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj20/brief/mj20_rxnorm_june_release.html

NLM Technical Bulletin from the National Library of Medicine

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj20/mj20_pubmed_new.html

The RxNorm April monthly release became available for download on Monday, April 6, 2020 and includes the investigational drug remdesivir and two new dose forms: Delayed Release Oral Granules and ...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj20/brief/mj20_rxnorm_april_2020.html

The 2020AA release of the Unified Medical Language System® (UMLS) Knowledge Sources is available for download as of May 4, 2020.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj20/mj20_umls_2020aa_release.html

The RxNorm May full monthly release and release notes are available as of Monday, May 4, 2020 and is consistent with the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) 2020AA release. The May release inc...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj20/brief/mj20_rxnorm_may_2020_release.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the April 2020 SNOMED CT Spanish Edition is available for download.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj20/brief/mj20_snomed_ct_spanish.html

The March-April 2020 issue of the NLM Technical Bulletin is now complete.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/issue_complete.html

There have been 4 DOCLINE releases within the last 6 weeks. Find out what you might have missed!

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma20/brief/ma20_docline_webinar.html

The new PubMed will become the default site on or after May 18, 2020. A new, yellow banner has been added to legacy PubMed to notify users of the timing.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma20/ma20_pubmed_default.html

In March 2020, five new Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) Supplementary Concept Records (SCR Class 2-Protocol) were added to the 2020 MeSH Browser in response to the COVID-19 pandemic:

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma20/brief/ma20_mesh_scr_novel_coronavirus_disease.html

Preprints - scholarly manuscripts posted by the author(s) to openly accessible platforms, usually before peer review - are gaining increased attention as a means for rapid dissemination of scient...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma20/brief/ma20_pmc_preprints.html

How PubMed Works is a series of four 90-minute classes presented live and online. Register now for the upcoming May or June sessions.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma20/brief/ma20_how_pubmed_works.html

Since the RxNorm project began in late 2001, the focus has been to provide normalized names and codes for drugs that are sold in the United States. Over the years, we have been asked many times t...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma20/ma20_rx_norm_investigational_drugs.html

As part of the modernization of NLM 19s infrastructure, we will be replacing the Voyager Integrated Library System with the Library Services Platform, Alma. Voyager was implemented at NLM in 1998...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma20/ma20_library_services_platform.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce a new Clinical Observations Recordings and Encoding (CORE) Problem List Subset of SNOMED CT is now available for download by UMLS Lic...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma20/brief/ma20_snomed_ct_core.html

Several features have been recently added or updated in the new PubMed: Summary display with full author list, Send to: Citation manager, PubMed format, and more

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma20/ma20_pubmed_updated.html

PubMed Essentials is intended for students, health care professionals, and researchers looking for quick training on the new PubMed. In a series of nine brief, interactive lessons, PubMed Essenti...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma20/brief/ma20_pubmed_essentials.html

Beginning in April 2020, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) will make its cataloging records in CatfilePlus and Serfile available for download in MARCXML format. This will be in addition to t...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma20/ma20_marc_xml.html

The next National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NNLM) #citeNLM Wikipedia Edit-a-thon will take place on April 30, 2020 and will focus on articles related to Preventive Health and Wellness. Du...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma20/brief/ma20_nnlm_webinar_citenlm.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the March 2020 SNOMED CT United States (US) Edition is available for download by UMLS Licensees.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma20/brief/ma20_snomed_ct_us.html

The RxNorm March monthly release became available for download on Monday, March 2, 2020 and has a significant drop in active data and a large increase in obsolete data resulting from new quality ...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma20/brief/ma20_rx_norm_march_2020_release.html

The January-February 2020 issue of the NLM Technical Bulletin is now complete

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/issue_complete.html

The DOCLINE Team is pleased to announce revised DOCLINE Eligibility Guidelines and Library Responsibilities.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf20/brief/jf20_docline_update.html

On February 13, 2020, a new MeSH Supplementary Concept Record (SCR Class 3-Disease) was added to the 2020 MeSH Browser in response to health updates issued by the Centers for Disease Control and ...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf20/brief/jf20_mesh_novel_coronavirus_disease.html

Scope of Revision of the 2020 Winter Edition

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf20/jf20_nlm_classification_winter_2020.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce a two-day Curation at Scale Workshop, to be held on April 27-28, 2020 on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) campus in Bethesda, ...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf20/brief/jf20_curation_at_scale.html

The RxNorm February monthly release became available for download on Monday, February 3, 2020, and includes several dose form changes.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf20/brief/jf20_rx_norm_february_2020_release.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the January 2020 release of SNOMED CT International Edition is available for download.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf20/brief/jf20_snomed_ct_international.html

Since the launch of the new PubMed on November 18, 2019 (see The New PubMed is Here), we have been delighted to see many users trying the new site and sharing feedback on their experience.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf20/jf20_pubmed_feedback.html

On January 1, 2020, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) implemented updates to ClinicalTrials.gov procedures for posting results information submitted for applicable clinical trials (ACTs). Th...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf20/jf20_clinicaltrials_qc.html

On January 14, 2020, a new MeSH Supplementary Concept Record (SCR Class 4-Organism) was added to the 2020 MeSH Browser in response to health updates issued by the Centers for Disease Control and ...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf20/brief/jf20_mesh_novel_coronavirus.html

Several features have been updated in the new PubMed, including options to customize the number of items per page, sort by publication date, reverse sort order, see all similar articles, and down...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf20/jf20_pubmed_new_updated.html

The RxNorm January monthly release is available for download as of Monday, January 6, 2020. The schedule for 2020 releases is also now posted.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf20/brief/jf20_january_2020_rxnorm_release.html

The PDF version of the NLM Classification has been updated with 2019 winter and summer classification data. You can download the three sections from links on the Terms and Conditions page.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf20/brief/jf20_nlm_classification_pdf_update.html

The November-December 2019 issue of the NLM Technical Bulletin is now complete.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/issue_complete.html

In March 2019, NLM announced that the three existing LinkOut services (LinkOut via Submission Utility, LinkOut Local, and Outside Tool) are being consolidated into one program, Library LinkOut us...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd19/brief/nd19_linkout_update.html

As of December 16, 2020, MEDLINE/PubMed citations and the MeSH translation tables were updated to reflect 2020 MeSH with full searching functionality for Supplementary Concept Record (SCR) data a...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd19/brief/nd19_new_system.html

MeSH RDF has been updated to reflect the 2020 MeSH Vocabulary. You can download 2020 MeSH RDF from links on the NLM Data Distribution page for MeSH Data.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd19/brief/nd19_mesh_rdf.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) adopted the 2020 MeSH vocabulary for cataloging on December 9, 2019.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd19/nd19_cataloging_news_2020.html

Learn about the data science of biology: Bioinformatics!

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd19/brief/nd19_bioinfo_class.html

This article collects the notable data changes made to MEDLINE during the National Library of Medicine (NLM) annual maintenance known as Year-End Processing (YEP) for 2020:

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd19/nd19_medline_data_changes_2020.html

Return to MEDLINE Data Changes—2020 article.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd19/nd19_mesh_replaced_headings_2020.html

Reflecting the National Library of Medicine 19s (NLM) ongoing commitment to public access support at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and beyond, we are pleased to announce that a new NIHM...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd19/brief/nd19_ncbi_nihms_new.html

As noted in a previous Technical Bulletin, TOXNET will be retired on December 16, 2019. One of the most popular TOXNET databases is the Drugs and Lactation Database, usually called LactMed, which...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd19/nd19_lactmed.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce a new Clinical Observations Recordings and Encoding (CORE) Problem List Subset of SNOMED CT, now available for download by UMLS Licen...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd19/brief/nd19_snomed_core_release.html

The RxNorm December monthly release is available for download as of Monday, December 2, 2019. Units of measure on RxNorm normal forms for dietary supplements are changing beginning with the Decem...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd19/brief/nd19_rxnorm_december_2019_release.html

Please join the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NNLM) Training Office for two events in January 2020, introducing you to 2020 Medical Subject Hea...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd19/brief/nd19_mesh_2020_classes.html

As noted in a previous Technical Bulletin, TOXNET will be retired on December 16, 2019. Most content will remain available through other NLM databases, as well as from external websites. Currentl...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd19/nd19_toxnet_new_locations.html

An updated version of PubMed is now available at https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ (see Figure 1). The new PubMed will become the default in spring 2020 and will ultimately replace the legacy vers...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd19/nd19_pubmed_new.html

The American Indian and Alaska Native Health portal (https://americanindianhealth.nlm.nih.gov) will be retired on December 16, 2019. Please visit the MedlinePlus American Indian and Alaska Native...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd19/nd19_sis_portal_retire.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce a new online course "In Case of Emergencies: Continuity of Operations (COOP) Planning." This asynchronous online course defines and d...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd19/brief/nd19_coop_planning_class.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce five new SNOMED CT related releases available for download.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd19/brief/nd19_snomed_ct_releases.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the October 2019 SNOMED CT Spanish Edition is available for download.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd19/brief/nd19_snomed_ct_spanish_release.html

The 2019AB release of the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) Knowledge Sources is available for download as of November 4, 2019.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd19/nd19_umls_2019ab_release.html

The RxNorm November monthly release will be available for download on Monday, November 4, 2019. The November release includes the dose form "Vaginal System," which replaces "Vaginal Ring," to bet...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd19/brief/nd19_rxnorm_november_2019_release.html

The September-October 2019 issue of the NLM Technical Bulletin is now complete.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/issue_complete.html

On September 11, 2019, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) Board of Regents (BOR) approved the NLM Collection and Preservation Policy. This new policy supports the purpose for which NLM was es...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so19/so19_collection_development_policy.html

The next virtual National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NNLM) #citeNLM Wikipedia Edit-a-thon will take place on November 20, 2019. During the all-day online event, we invite you to add citati...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so19/brief/so19_nnlm_webinar_citenlm.html

Several new features have been added to the new PubMed including an updated homepage, an online user guide, the CSV file format, My NCBI Filters, My Bibliography and Collections, and search integ...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so19/so19_pubmed_updated.html

The RxNorm October monthly release is available for download as of Monday, October 7, 2019.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so19/brief/so19_rxnorm_october_release.html

The 2019 summer version of the NLM Classification, now available, encompasses the systematic review of the following schedules: QW (Microbiology. Immunology) and QX (Parasitology). In addition to...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so19/so19_nlm_classification_summer_2019.html

TOXNET has served as an integrated system of toxicology and environmental health information. The most frequently used databases are being incorporated into three NLM core resources: PubChem, Pub...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so19/so19_toxnet_discontinued.html

An alternate link to provide access to 2020 MeSH is available from the top navigation bar on the MeSH Browser homepage. The default year in the MeSH Browser remains 2019 MeSH for now.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so19/brief/so19_2020_mesh_browser.html

NLM is currently involved in MEDLINE year-end processing (YEP) activities.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so19/so19_yep_overview.html

NLM is pleased to announce a new CORE Problem List Subset of SNOMED CT is now available for download.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so19/brief/so19_snomed_core_release.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce that the following three resources have been fully digitized and added to the NLM Digital Collections site: Hospital and health admin...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so19/so19_digital_collections_resources.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the September 2019 SNOMED CT United States (US) Edition release is available for download by UMLS Licensees.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so19/brief/so19_snomed_release.html

The July-August 2019 issue of the NLM Technical Bulletin is now complete.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/issue_complete.html

A new MeSH RDF Lookup service is now available at https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/lookup/. Each Lookup is a simple GET API with CGI parameters that returns data in JSON format.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja19/brief/ja19_mesh_rdf_lookup.html

PubMed, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) free online database of the world's biomedical literature, recently attained a major milestone when the 30 millionth journal citation was added to t...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja19/brief/ja19_pubmed_30_million.html

AcademyHealth, in collaboration with the National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR) will present Back to School Webinar: How to Search, Communicat...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja19/brief/ja19_nichsr_webinar.html

Get ready for a new PubMed! In this webinar for librarians and other information professionals, you will preview the new and modern PubMed with updated features including advanced search tools, s...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja19/brief/ja19_webinar_new_pubmed.html

A growing number of librarians are filling a special niche in the information world: serving those who work with genetic and molecular biology information. Bioinformatics research advances in suc...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja19/brief/ja19_bioinformatics_webinar.html

The RxNorm August monthly release became available for download on Monday, August 5, 2019.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja19/brief/ja19_rxnorm_aug_release.html

Users can now use filters to narrow search results in PubMed Labs by article type, text availability, publication date, species, language, sex, subject, journal category, and age. The most popula...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja19/ja19_pubmed_filters.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the July 2019 SNOMED CT International Edition is available for download.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja19/brief/ja19_snomed_ct_intl_release.html

Library icons now appear in PubMed Labs for libraries participating in the Library LinkOut using Outside Tool service (see Figure 1). Because PubMed Labs is a responsive website, the icons appear...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja19/ja19_pubmed_labs_linkout.html

As the National Library of Medicine (NLM) implements its Strategic Plan, 2017-2027, it is making organizational changes that include the closure of the Specialized Information Services (SIS) divi...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja19/brief/ja19_sis_closure.html

The RxNorm July full monthly release and notes are available as of Monday, July 1, 2019, and include a new "Vaginal Sponge" dose form. The RxNorm "Vaginal Sponge" dose form is defined as a dispos...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja19/brief/ja19_rxnorm_july_release.html

The May-June 2019 issue of the NLM Technical Bulletin is now complete.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/issue_complete.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the release of a new tutorial on medical terminologies and RxNorm.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj19/brief/mj19_rxnorm_tutorial.html

The Collection Development Manual of the National Library of Medicine, which establishes boundaries for the Library's permanent collection and provides a framework for the selection of biomedical...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj19/mj19_collection_development_manual_changes.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the launch of the MEDLINE Publisher Portal, a new platform for submitting and managing MEDLINE applications.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj19/mj19_medline_publisher_portal.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has updated the following statistical resources to include Fiscal Year 2018 MEDLINE/PubMed data.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj19/brief/mj19_updated_stats_2019_baseline.html

The RxNorm June full monthly release will be available for download on Monday, June 3, 2019, and includes two new Qualitative Distinction modifiers: Evening Dosing and Sensor.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj19/brief/mj19_rxnorm_june_release.html

On August 1, 2019, the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) will launch the new BLAST results page as the default view.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj19/brief/mj19_ncbi_blast_results_default_view.html

On May 28, 2019, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) launched the new web tool MAGPIE (Map Assisted Generation of Procedure and Intervention Encoding). MAGPIE is an interactive tool to help us...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj19/mj19_magpie_web_tool_launch.html

Over the last two years, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) has been exploring efficient ways to link the literature with associated datasets. The nine-minute video Data Discovery in PMC and ...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj19/brief/mj19_pmc_data_discovery.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce plans to release a new NIH Manuscript Submission (NIHMS) system later this year. The 10-minute video A New NIHMS (and PACM API) to Su...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj19/brief/mj19_pmc_nihms_pacm_api.html

The slides from the NLM Update at MLA'19 are available.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj19/mj19_mla_ppt.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has released a recording of a presentation given at the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting on May 5, 2019, PubMed Update: MLA 2019. In this 45-minut...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj19/brief/mj19_pubmed_mla_2019_update.html

For institutions that use the Public Access Compliance Monitor (PACM) for monitoring the status of publications associated with their NIH awards, API access is now available to the downloadable C...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj19/brief/mj19_api_public_access_compliance.html

A recording of the Webinar is available.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma19/brief/ma19_linkout_webinars.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce a new Clinical Observations Recordings and Encoding (CORE) Problem List Subset of SNOMED CT is now available for download by UMLS Lic...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj19/brief/mj19_snomed_ct_core_problem.html

The 2019AA release of the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) Knowledge Sources is available for download as of May 6, 2019.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj19/mj19_umls_2019aa_release.html

The RxNorm May full monthly release is available for download as of Monday, May 6, 2019.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj19/brief/mj19_rxnorm_may_release.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the release of a new tutorial on health data standards.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj19/brief/mj19_health_standards_tutorial.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the release of a new tutorial on MedlinePlus Connect. MedlinePlus is a website of the National Institutes of Health, produced by NLM,...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj19/brief/mj19_medlineplus_connect_tutorial.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the April 2019 SNOMED CT Spanish Edition is available for download.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj19/brief/mj19_umls_snomed_ct_spanish_april_release.html

Celebrate with us as the NLM Technical Bulletin turns 50 this month! Please join us in taking a moment to reflect on the past and share your vision of the future.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj19/brief/mj19_technical_bulletin_50.html

The March-April 2019 issue of the NLM Technical Bulletin is now complete.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/issue_complete.html

The next National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NNLM) #CiteNLM Wikipedia Edit-a-thon will take place on May 6, 2019. During the all-day online event, we invite you to add citations and conten...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma19/brief/ma19_citenlm_edit_a_thon.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce a new SNOMED CT International General Practitioner/Family Practice Reference Sets and SNOMED CT to ICPC2 Map is now available for dow...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma19/brief/ma19_snomed_ct_release.html

In April 2019, the topic-specific PubMed Special Query, Health Disparities, was updated to include terms and resources on gender and sexual minorities. As of this update, the search retrieves ove...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma19/brief/ma19_pubmed_special_query_updated.html

Please join the National Library of Medicine (NLM) for a webinar to answer questions about the LinkOut Consolidation Announcement. A 15-minute presentation will go over what this consolidation me...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma19/brief/ma19_linkout_webinars.html

The new My Bibliography interface for eRA Commons users, coming soon, will help you keep track of the compliance status of your publications.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma19/ma19_mybibliography_eRA.html

My Bibliography version 3.0, the redesigned and rebuilt new version to be released soon, includes useful new tools and a streamlined interface that facilitates a workspace where you can quickly v...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma19/ma19_mybibliography_overview.html

The Clipboard is now available in PubMed Labs, allowing users to temporarily save and collect selected citations from one or more searches.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma19/ma19_pubmed_labs_update_clipboard.html

NLM will be at the annual meeting of the Medical Library Association (MLA), May 3-8, in Chicago. We invite you to attend our sessions and talk with our staff at the exhibit booth.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma19/ma19_mla_invite.html

The National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR) is pleased to announce the release of a newly revised Health Statistics tutorial (see Figure 1). Wr...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma19/brief/ma19_nichsr_health_statistics_tutorial.html

The April 2019 full monthly release of RxNorm is available for download as of Monday, April 1, 2019, from the RxNorm Files page and includes a new Qualitative Distinction modifier "20/80 Release....

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma19/brief/ma19_rxnorm_april_release.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is continuing to develop features on the PubMed Labs platform, and this new version of PubMed will eventually replace the current PubMed. See An Updated Pub...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma19/ma19_pubmed_advanced_search_update.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) Radiation Medical Emergency Management (REMM) site has been updated.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma19/brief/ma19_sis_reprint_remm_updated.html

Library LinkOut Background NLM formerly provided three library services to allow PubMed users to access full text journal content through their institutional subscriptions: LinkOut via Submission...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma19/ma19_linkout_consolidation_announcement.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce a new Clinical Observations Recordings and Encoding (CORE) Problem List Subset of SNOMED CT is now available for download by UMLS Lic...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma19/brief/ma19_umls_snomed_ct_core_release.html

Summary of recent posts about changes to MeSH and the PubMed search filter for systematic reviews.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma19/brief/ma19_systematic_review.html

GeneEd, a resource of genetics education materials for grades 9 to 12, will be retired on March 31, 2019.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma19/brief/ma19_sis_geneed_retire.html

Join the National Network of Libraries of Medicine Training Office (NTO) for our PubMed for Librarians series. Details and link to register are below. All times are Eastern.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma19/brief/ma19_nnlm_pubmed_webinars.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the March 2019 SNOMED CT United States (US) Edition release is available for download by UMLS Licensees.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma19/brief/ma19_umls_snomed_ct_march_release.html

The March 2019 full monthly release of RxNorm is available for download from the RxNorm Files page as of Monday, March 4, 2019.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma19/brief/ma19_rxnorm_march_release.html

As of February 6, 2019, the NCBI Bookshelf supports search by Publication Type .

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma19/brief/ma19_ncbi_bookshelf_update.html

As the biomedical literature increases at a significant rate in PubMed, NCBI has continuously experimented and investigated ways to improve the overall search quality and user experience.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma19/ma19_pubmed_update.html

The January-February 2019 issue of the NLM Technical Bulletin is now complete.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/issue_complete.html

PubMed subject filter strategies are reviewed each year to determine if modifications are necessary.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf19/brief/jf19_pm_subject_filter_strategies_2019_update.html

The List of Serials Indexed for Online Users (LSIOU), 2019 edition, is now available in XML format. The 2019 edition contains 15,159 serial titles, including 5,257 titles currently indexed for ME...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf19/jf19_serials_indexed_2019.html

The February full monthly release of RxNorm is available as of February 4, 2019, and includes dose form changes to inhaled products and vaginal products as part of ongoing quality assurance and q...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf19/brief/jf19_february_2019_rxnorm_release.html

The National Library of Medicine is pleased to announce the following enhancements to PubMed:

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf19/jf19_february_pubmed_updates.html

On July 1, 2019, the National Library of Medicine will retire the Loansome Doc system.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf19/jf19_loansome_doc_retire.html

The January full monthly release of RxNorm became available on Monday, January 7, 2019, and does not include the Veterans Health Administration's National Drug File – Reference Terminology (NDF...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf19/brief/jf19_rxnorm_jan_release.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the January 2019 release of SNOMED CT International Edition is available for download.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf19/brief/jf19_snomed_ct_international.html

The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) is a set of files and software available from the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) that brings together many biomedical vocabularies and standard...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf19/brief/jf19_umls_training.html

The 2019 MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) vocabulary was evaluated for inclusion in the Classification Index.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf19/jf19_nlm_classification_winter_2019.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is continuing to develop features in PubMed Labs, with new tools and functionality added on a regular basis. Recent releases added several ways to save and ...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf19/jf19_pubmed_labs_new.html

A recording of the MeSH Changes and PubMed Searching Webinar is available.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd18/brief/nd18_webinar_2019_mesh_highlights.html

A recording of the MeSH Changes and PubMed Searching Webinar is available.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/clinics/mesh_changes.html

A recording of the 2019 MeSH Highlights Webinar is available.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd18/brief/nd18_webinar_2019_mesh_highlights.html

The January full monthly release of RxNorm became available on Monday, January 7, 2019, and does not include the Veterans Health Administration's National Drug File – Reference Terminology (NDF...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf19/brief/jf19_rxnorm_jan_release.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce a new Clinical Observations Recordings and Encoding (CORE) Problem List Subset of SNOMED CT is now available for download by UMLS Lic...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf19/brief/jf19_snomed_core_problem_subset_available.html

The NLM Technical Bulletin November - December 2018 issue is complete.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/issue_complete.html

The National Network of Libraries of Medicine is pleased to announce open registration for the third cohort of Bioinformatics and Biology Essentials for Librarians: Databases, Tools, and Clinical...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd18/brief/nd18_nnlm_2019_bioinformatics_training_4_librarians.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) Value Set Authority Center (VSAC), with support from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), is pleased to announce the launch of the Intensio...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd18/nd18_vsac_intensional_definition_function.html

Biomedical and health sciences librarians are invited to participate as students or mentors in a rigorous online training course going beyond the basics of research data management (RDM).

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd18/brief/nd18_application_rdm102_for_biomed_hlth_sci_librarians.html

MeSH is the National Library of Medicine (NLM) controlled vocabulary thesaurus that is updated annually.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd18/nd18_whats_new_mesh_2019.html

As of December 11, 2018, MEDLINE/PubMed citations and the MeSH translation tables were updated to reflect 2019 MeSH.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd18/brief/nd18_new_system.html

Please join the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NNLM) Training Office for two events in January 2019, introducing you to 2019 Medical Subject Hea...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd18/brief/nd18_webinar_2019_mesh_highlights.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) adopted the 2019 MeSH vocabulary for cataloging on November 19, 2019.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd18/nd18_cataloging_new_2019.html

The December 2018 full monthly release of RxNorm is available for download as of Monday, December 3, 2018, from the RxNorm Download Files page.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd18/brief/nd18_rxnorm_december_2018_release.html

This article collects the notable data changes made to MEDLINE during the National Library of Medicine (NLM) annual maintenance known as Year-End Processing (YEP) for 2019.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd18/nd18_medline_data_changes_2019.html

The NLM Strategic Plan released earlier this year noted that "reating efficient ways to link the literature with associated datasets enables knowledge generation and discovery."

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd18/brief/nd18_associated_data_pmc.html

ToxMystery, a game about chemicals in the household, will be retired on December 31, 2018.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd18/brief/nd18_sis_retiring_toxMystery.html

On November 5, 2018, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) released a new design for the Digital Collections homepage.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd18/nd18_digital_collections_homepage_redesign.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the October 2018 SNOMED CT Spanish Edition is available for download.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd18/brief/nd18_umls_snomed_ct_spanish_ed_release.html

Starting November 2018, the Europe PMC funder, Arthritis Research UK, will be supplying grant funding data under their new name Versus Arthritis to the National Library of Medicine (NLM).

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd18/nd18_new_grant_funding_orgs.html

The 2018AB release of the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) Knowledge Sources is available for download as of November 5, 2018.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd18/nd18_umls_2018ab_release.html

The November full monthly release of RxNorm is available for download as of Monday, November 5, 2018.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd18/brief/nd18_rxnorm_november_2018_release.html

The September-October 2018 issue of the NLM Technical Bulletin is now complete.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/issue_complete.html

The National Library of Medicine is pleased to announce a new design for the Tox Town Website, which provides consumer-level information on everyday locations and situations where toxic chemical ...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so18/brief/so18_sis_reprint_tox_town_redesign.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce seven new SNOMED CT related releases available for download.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so18/brief/so18_umls_7_snomed_ct_releases.html

Thank you for your feedback! The community response to the launch of PubMed Labs has been outstanding. The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is continuing to test new features at PubMed Labs, fo...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so18/brief/so18_pm_labs_abstract_display.html

On Wednesday, October 10, 2018, NCBI staff will show you how to use the NCBI resources MedGen, ClinVar, and GTR to locate records for a specified list of symptoms or clinical features, explore sp...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so18/brief/so18_ncbi_webinar_medical_genetics_resources.html

Editor's note: This change was implemented in PubMed on October 2, 2018.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja18/ja18_indexing_method.html

On September 17, 2018, The National Library of Medicine (NLM) Value Set Authority Center (VSAC), in collaboration with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ON...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so18/so18_vsac_addendum.html

The October full monthly release of RxNorm and release notes are available as of Monday, October 1, 2018.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so18/brief/so18_rxnorm_october_2018_release.html

On Wednesday, October 3, 2018, the lead of the NCBI BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) group will show you how to be more effective with NCBI standalone BLAST applications.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so18/brief/so18_ncbi_webinar_blast.html

In December 2018, GenBank and other International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration members will expand the accession formats used for sequencing projects. Nearly all possible accession ...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so18/brief/so18_genbank_expanded_accession_formats.html

The 2018 summer version of the NLM Classification is available now. It encompasses the systematic review of selected schedules and other miscellaneous updates.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja18/ja18_nlm_classification_summer_2018.html

Beginning October 1, 2018, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) will begin distributing its MARC bibliographic files (Catfile, Serfile, CatfilePlus, SerfilePlus) in UTF-8 rather than MARC-8 for...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja18/ja18_bibliographic_record_format_change.html

The MEDLINE/PubMed DTD was modified in 2017 to incorporate the attribute "IndexingMethod" for the element (see MEDLINE/PubMed XML Element Descriptions and their Attributes). Values will now be ap...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja18/ja18_indexing_method.html

The Veterans Health Administration replaced the National Drug File-Reference Terminology (NDF-RT) with Medication Reference Terminology (MED-RT) in March 2018. NDF-RT will remain in RxNorm throug...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja18/brief/ja18_ndfrt_removed_rxnorm.html

The NCBI Bookshelf now offers an Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) service that provides access to metadata of all items in the Bookshelf archive, as well as to ...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja18/brief/ja18_bookshelf_oaipmh.html

The August full monthly release of RxNorm and release notes are available as of Monday, August 6, 2018. The Veterans Health Administration replaced the National Drug File-Reference Terminology (N...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja18/brief/ja18_rxnorm_august_release.html

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 MEDL...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja18/ja18_medline2022.html

On Wednesday, July 25, 2018, National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) staff will present a set of teaching examples that use BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) and related alig...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja18/brief/ja18_ncbi_webinar_blast.html

As of July 12, 2018, the NCBI Bookshelf supports search by MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) fields, including MeSH Major Topics , MeSH Subheadings , and MeSH Terms .

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja18/brief/ja18_nbci_bookshelf_mesh.html

On June 22, 2018, MEDLINE attained a major milestone when the 25 millionth journal citation was added to the database. This count includes citations created from the OLDMEDLINE project.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja18/brief/ja18_medline_milestone.html

The July full monthly release of RxNorm is available as of Monday, July 2, 2018.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja18/brief/ja18_rxnorm_july_release.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce new and updated video tutorials about resources and tools for the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS).

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja18/brief/ja18_umls_tutorials.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) will not be holding a DailyMed/RxNorm Jamboree in September 2018.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja18/brief/ja18_dailymed_rxnorm_jamboree.html

On June 26, 2018, PubMed Central PMC released expanded information about its selection process for journals that apply for participation.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja18/brief/ja18_pmc_journal_selection.html

The May-June 2018 issue of the NLM Technical Bulletin is closed.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/issue_complete.html

On June 15, 2018, PubMed Journals, an NCBI Labs project, was discontinued.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj18/brief/mj18_ncbi_labs_pubmed_journals_discontinued.html

On June 20, 2018, new version of TOXMAP was released; it does not require browser plug-ins and provides improved usability on mobile devices.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj18/brief/mj18_sis_new_version_toxmap.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce a new video tutorial, MeSH on Demand: Finding MeSH Terms in Your Text.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj18/brief/mj18_mesh_on_demand_tutorial.html

On June 20, 2018, new version of TOXMAP was released; it does not require browser plug-ins and provides improved usability on mobile devices.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj18/brief/mj18_sis_new_version_toxmap.html

The NLM Update was held at the Annual Meeting of the Medical Library Association in Atlanta, GA, on May 30, 2018. Three speakers presented on NLM and data science; NLM 2017-2027 Strategic Plannin...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj18/mj18_mla_ppt.html

The National Library of Medicine has updated the following statistical resources to include Fiscal Year 2017 MEDLINE/PubMed data:

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj18/brief/mj18_updates_2018_baseline_stats.html

On Wednesday, June 13, 2018, join National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) staff for a Webinar on how to use EDirect to install PubMed locally and then retrieve and proc ess records f...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj18/brief/mj18_ncbi_webinar_edirect.html

A new Clinical Observations Recordings and Encoding (CORE) Problem List Subset of SNOMED CT is now available for download by UMLS Licensees.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj18/brief/mj18_snomed_ct_core.html

The June full monthly release of RxNorm is available as of Monday, June 4, 2018. As a reminder, the RxClass API, RxClass Web application, and RxNav will use the Veterans Health Administration (VH...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj18/brief/mj18_rxnorm_june_release.html

On June 1, 2018, the National Library of Medicine launched a newly redesigned homepage. The design aims to provide users with a more efficient path to NLM tools and resources and adapts to any de...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj18/mj18_redesign_nlm_homepage.html

NLM Technical Bulletin from the National Library of Medicine

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma18/ma18_mla_invite.html

The presentation recordings are listed below and are also accessible from the NLM Theater Presentations at the 2018 MLA Conference page.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj18/mj18_mla_theater_presentations.html

As of June 2018, only the English version of multi-language articles will appear in PubMed/MEDLINE and be indexed for MEDLINE. In the past, when journals published multiple translations of an art...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj18/brief/mj18_multiple_translations_journal_article.html

As of June 1, 2018, obituaries and in memoriam articles will no longer be cited and indexed with Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) for MEDLINE. In the past, many obituaries and "in memoriam" articl...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj18/brief/mj18_obituaries_in_memoriam.html