National Library Week (April 19-25) is the perfect time to celebrate NIH Librarians and take advantage of the expertise they bring to advancing your research.
About the Library
Accessibility
The NIH Library is making every effort to ensure that the information available on our Website is accessible to all users, compliant with Section 508 standards, and compatible with screen readers and other assistive technologies.
Address & Phone Number
The NIH Library's mailing and physical address and phone number.
For the Public
The NIH Library serves the information needs of NIH and select HHS agency staff.
Members of the public should contact the National Library of Medicine (NLM), which serves the public:
Journal Selection
Selecting a high-quality journal is important to ensuring that your research reaches its intended audience. There are a number of tools and resources that can help you to find the right journal for your manuscript. Here are a few tools to get you started:
Publisher-based Manuscript Matching Tools
Many publishers have manuscript match tools. Please note that these tools only identify journals specific to an individual publisher.
Library Privileges and Borrowing
The NIH Library is a biomedical research library whose collections and services are developed to support the programs of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and select U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) agencies.
Privacy Policy
Protecting your privacy is very important to the NIH Library. The NIH Library (NIHL) does not collect any personally identifiable information (PII) about you during your visit to our website, unless you choose to provide it to us through our web request systems. However, we do collect some data about your visit to our website to help us better understand how our users use the site and how to make it more helpful. We collect information from visitors who read, browse, and/or download information from our website.
Vision, Mission, Guiding Principles
The NIH Library vision, mission, and guiding principles.