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Permanent Access to NLM Files

NIH Director's Awards

NLM New Associate Fellows

Virtual Tour

MLA/PLA Conference

Szczur Joins SIS

Publicity Review and Update

Portrait Goes to Blair House

Names in the News

NLM In Print

The following "snapshot" shows the kind of coverage NLM has gotten in recent months, in the print and electronic media.

• From The Wall Street Journal, July 14, 2000,
  NLM is described as: ".by far the most comprehensive and reliable source of professional medical literature. Originally designed for medical professionals, the library launched MEDLINEplus in 1998 to make data more accessible to patients."
• From The Washington Post, June 18, 2000:
  ".We nearly decided not to bother listing any other sites after spending a few hours with the remarkably well-edited MEDLINEplus, a service of the National Library of Medicine."
• From The New York Times, August 31, 1999:
  "(www.nlm.nih.gov) provides access to the world's largest biomedical library. Try the Library's easy- access site: www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus"
• From The Los Angeles Times, June 19, 2000:
  ".the National Library of Medicine has a consumer-friendly gateway called MEDLINEplus. Sure, you can access MEDLINE, but the 'plus' is where it is at."
• From the Journal of the American Medical Association's online "JAMA PATIENT PAGE," September 12, 2000:
  "The main source of information for searching for articles in English- language medical journals is MEDLINE, which is a database maintained by the U.S. National Library of Medicine."
• From "Consumer Reports Online," September 22, 2000:
  ".The best place to start is usually MEDLINEplus, the National Library of Medicine's consumer- health web site."
• Between January and September 2000,
  articles about MEDLINEplus appeared in 752 newspaper and magazine articles across all 50 states. These reached an estimated 256 million readers and appeared in 70% of the top media markets in the U.S.
• The Associated Press and The Washington Post Health section
  frequently refer readers to MEDLINEplus for additional information about topics discussed in their articles.
• NLM has been the subject of several TV broadcast specials. Doreen Gentzler, news anchor for the NBC affiliate in Washington, DC, WRC-TV, featured MEDLINEplus in three separate spots this summer, and the station currently points to MEDLINEplus as its health information source, on its home page.
• Between October 1999 and September 2000,
  NIH distributed a radio public service announcement about MEDLINEplus to over 400 stations nationwide. During that same period, Radio UNICA aired a Spanish translation of the same message and recorded over 260 placements.

Thanks to Kathy Cravedi, Public Liaison Officer, NLM, for invaluable assistance with this article.

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