The NIH Library is a leading biomedical research library dedicated to supporting the National Institutes of Health and select U.S. Department of Health and Human Services agencies. We provide access to a premier collection of resources to help you with your biomedical information and research needs:
- Journals – online access to over 13,000 current and historical journals (most with complete archives), with over 16,800 articles downloaded each day
- Books – online access to over 170,000 scholarly eBooks, with nearly 270,000 eBook chapter downloads each year; core physical collection of 28,000 books also available
- Reference Databases – over 50 searchable reference sources including PubMed@NIH, Web of Science, Scopus, and UpToDate
Collection Size
As of January 1, 2022, NIH staff have access to:
- 13,097 eJournals
- 170,484 eBooks
- 28,247 print books
- 54 reference databases
- Over 10,000 educational videos
Collection Usage
The NIH Library provided an estimated 6,432,862 journal article and eBook chapter downloads in FY2021. That translates to:
- Over 16,800 journal articles downloaded per day
- Over 22,000 eBook chapters downloaded per month
- Nearly 750 articles/book chapters downloaded per hour