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 12,000 current and historical journals (most with complete archives), with over 21,000 articles downloaded each day
- Books – online access to over 160,000 scholarly eBooks, with over 700,000 eBook chapter downloads each year; core physical collection of 22,000 books also available
- Reference Databases – over 50 searchable reference sources including PubMed@NIH, Web of Science, Scopus, and UpToDate
Collection Size
As of January 2, 2020, NIH staff have access to:
- 12,792 current subscribed electronic journals
- 18,842 Open Access and free journals
- 160,557 eBooks
- 22,319 print books
- 55 reference databases
- 457 training videos
Collection Usage
The NIH Library provided an estimated 8,843,390 journal article and eBook chapter downloads in FY2019. That translates to:
- Average 21,000 journal articles downloaded per day
- Over 58,000 eBook chapters downloaded per month
- Over 1,000 articles/book chapters downloaded per hour
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