1. NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE.
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PERIODICALS , *BOOKS , *ONLINE library catalogs - Abstract
This article focuses on the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland. The website of the library is www.nlm.nih.gov. The reading rooms are open to the public and are accessible to disabled persons. Visitors must sign in at the guard stations and provide valid picture identification. After obtaining a library card, visitors may access books, journals, and audiovisual materials from the closed stacks for use within the Library by requesting them via the library's online catalog, LOCATORpIus. Materials may not be removed from the Library. Most of the general and historical collections are available through interlibrary loan to any library. The Library holds the world's largest collection of scholarly biomedical literature, including works from virtually every country and in most written languages. In addition to clinical medicine, the Library maintains extensive international collections in medical anthropology, history of medicine, bioethics, health policy and economics, and related fields. The collections include over 7 million books, journals, manuscripts, microforms, pictures, audiovisuals, and electronic media.
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- 2004