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WELCOME TO HEALTH INFORMATION BLOG OF INDIA

This blog is created to raise awareness about the importance and value of libraries among the people of our country, special importance is given to exhibit contribution of health science librarians in health and social care within institutions and in nation building.
The health science librarians provide information resources to support health care. They encourage widespread use of health information among doctors, medical students, nurses, physiotherapists, dietitians, social workers and researchers. The technological advancement has enabled libraries to move beyond the four walls of a building, as a result, we, the librarians strive to meet the health information needs of a larger community and try to amend health information delivery at every region, so that people live better, healthier, happier and more productive lives.

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Sunday, October 6, 2013

 About NLM's most popular databases:

MEDLINE is the journal citation database. Started in the 1960s, it  provides over 20 million references to biomedical and life sciences journal articles back to 1946. It includes citations from approximately 5,600 scholarly journals published around the world. While PubMed is available since 1996. It cover 22 million references include the MEDLINE database plus many more citations for example citations from books etc. and PMC (PubMed Central) launched in 2000 is a free archive for full-text biomedical and life sciences journal articles.
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