17 hours 28 minutes ago
Join Region 2 for its inaugural half-day virtual forum commemorating UN World Spanish Language Day. The event features virtual presentations from project partners and focuses on providing trainings, as well as resources promoting health literacy among Spanish-speaking community members in Region 2 and beyond. Learn with us in community about how to enhance health information...
Read More »
liaison
2 days 17 hours ago
Women in the United States die from giving birth at a higher rate than any other developed nation. Black women are more than three times as likely to die from pregnancy-related complications as white women, regardless of their income or education. This health disparity is why Black Maternal Health Week is a national health observance recognized...
Read More »
liaison
1 week ago
Your feedback matters! In the near future, we will be including occasional 1-2 question surveys in our weekly newsletter focused on ways we can improve our services and resources. Each survey will take no more than a few minutes to complete and will help us shape our training, communication, and more. Aren’t currently a subscriber?...
Read More »
liaison
1 week 2 days ago
Calling all high school, community college, and undergraduate science educators! NCBI is excited to host their first BioEd Summit on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) campus in Bethesda, MD, from August 5-9, 2024. Join NCBI for a week-long, in-person event where you will collaborate with other educators and NCBI experts to create data-driven curricula....
Read More »
liaison
1 week 6 days ago
Come help us improve the sources and quality of health information online! Join staff from the Network of the National Library of Medicine from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. MT on Wednesday, April 24, 2024 for a Wikipedia edit-a-thon. We will be adding citations and content from trusted National Library of Medicine resources focusing on articles about...
Read More »
liaison
2 weeks ago
The NNLM Discovery Podcast has released additional episodes for season two. Each episode features a NNLM funded project making a difference through engaging with communities to provide access to trusted information for the purpose of improving the public’s health. New episodes include: Telehealth Kiosks: A Story from Region 1 – An exciting project in Delaware...
Read More »
liaison
2 weeks 2 days ago
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Pearls of Wisdom online series of short videos aims to inspire, motivate, and inform women in the beginning or middle stages of their biomedical careers. Produced and funded by the NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH), the series started as a collaboration with the National Medical Association...
Read More »
liaison
2 weeks 6 days ago
The Instructional Designer is integral to achieving successful outcomes for the Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM) Training Office (NTO). The NTO supports the training and educational mission of the NNLM by designing and delivering high-quality, innovative training to diverse audiences nationwide in support of the effective use of information products and services...
Read More »
liaison
3 weeks ago
The NNLM National Center for Data Services is excited to announce that applications are open for the 2024 Data Internship for library and information science students of color! This program provides hands-on experience in the skills needed for data librarianship in a health sciences context. These paid internships offer opportunities to gain practical experience while...
Read More »
liaison
3 weeks 2 days ago
For March, in recognition of Women’s History Month, the NNLM Reading Club brings awareness to Women in Medicine featuring three new books: The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine by Janice Nimura The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and...
Read More »
liaison
4 weeks ago
Institutional training grants help prepare undergraduates, predoctoral students and postdoctoral scholars for careers in biomedical and behavioral research. Part 1 of this NIH All About Grants podcast miniseries dives into considerations for developing training grant applications and the review process, and part 2 focuses on post-award monitoring, mentorship, and provides insights for trainees. The discussion focuses on Kirschstein-National Research Service Awards (T32 and T34),...
Read More »
liaison
1 month ago
Join us March 5-April 2, 2024 for the NNLM’s Social Determinants of Environmental Health webinar series! This series will feature experts who will present on environmental health disparities and populations disproportionately burdened by environmental hazards, share informative resources, and discuss interventions to reduce environmental health disparities. The first two sessions will be held next week...
Read More »
liaison
1 month ago
Join us for another National Library of Medicine (NLM) Office Hour on Thursday, April 11, 2024 at 12:00 p.m. Mountain Time. This session will focus on the beta version of a new online tool, the Dataset Catalog. The Dataset Catalog is envisioned to be a freely available catalog of biomedical datasets from selected publicly available...
Read More »
liaison
1 month ago
Our Building Successful Collaborations with Communities course integrates the theory of community engagement with its application to libraries. The course is designed using the Preparation, Action, Reflection model. We will share step-by-step methods and best practices for engaging with communities to co-design and co-develop library offerings. Participants will learn about the community in which their...
Read More »
liaison
1 month ago
The Office of Autoimmune Disease Research within the Office of Research on Women’s Health (OADR-ORWH) recently released the Request for Information (RFI): Inviting Input on an NIH-Wide Strategic Plan for Autoimmune Disease Research. OADR-ORWH needs your help imagining the future of autoimmune disease research – What is needed? What is missing? What is possible? The...
Read More »
liaison
1 month 1 week ago
iCite was launched in 2015 and is hosted by the National Institute of Health Office of Portfolio Analysis. The site analyzes bibliometric information at the article, author, and institutional level. iCite uses data collected from the NIH Open Citation collection which includes data from PubMed Central, Medline, Entrez, CrossRef, as well as other sources of...
Read More »
liaison
1 month 1 week ago
What is DOCLINE? DOCLINE is the National Library of Medicine’s interlibrary loan (ILL) request routing system. The purpose of the system is to improve access to biomedical literature for libraries in the Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM) and beyond. DOCLINE provides efficient lending and borrowing by finding potential lenders for ILL requests...
Read More »
liaison
1 month 2 weeks ago
The NNLM National Center for Data Services (NCDS) seeks health sciences library partners to serve as additional internship sites* for the 2024 summer internship for graduate students of color interested in data librarianship. Our library partners provide a project for interns, and the interns work with NCDS guidance on the project where they will gain...
Read More »
liaison
1 month 2 weeks ago
The Dataset Catalog is a new online tool to help users connect with multiple repositories through a single, user-friendly, “all-in-one” resource to search, find, and retrieve datasets. The beta version of the Dataset Catalog indexes datasets from a limited collection of repositories and features minimal functionality initially. NLM seeks user feedback during this phase, which is expected...
Read More »
liaison
1 month 2 weeks ago
We’re excited to announce our next R4 Connections webinar happening in March. Registration is required. Unable to attend live? Register anyways and you’ll receive the recording after the event. Introduction to Generative AI Tools In the rapidly evolving landscape of digital technology, generative artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative force, offering groundbreaking tools...
Read More »
liaison
Checked
2 hours 28 minutes ago
Serving the biomedical information needs of Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming.