Library (NLM) Policy

Guest post by Leigh Samsel, MS, NLM Planning and Evaluation Officer and NLM representative to the NIH-Wide Strategic Plan Working Group. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is developing its next NIH-Wide Strategic Plan, and we’re asking for your input. This plan will help NIH capitalize on new opportunities for scientific exploration. Building on the … Continue reading Share Your Thoughts on NIH’s Research Priorities

Last month, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) released its Draft NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing and Supplemental Draft Guidance (Draft NIH Policy), making it available for public comment. Comments are due by January 10, 2020. Because everyone’s voice matters, I’m calling on the Musings audience to review the draft and offer your … Continue reading Everyone’s Voice Matters: Making Science Open and Accessible to the Public

Last month, I had the honor of joining National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins, MD, PhD, and four other NIH Institute Directors to provide testimony before the U.S. House Congressional Subcommittee on Appropriations for NIH Investments in Medical Research. This was the first time in 12 years that NLM provided testimony to Congress. … Continue reading Taking NLM’s Story to Capitol Hill

Guest post by Amanda J. Wilson, Chief, Office of Engagement and Training, NLM. During the NLM Board of Regents (BOR) meeting held last week, I had the distinct honor of introducing the new Office of Engagement and Training (OET). This office brings together many of the outreach, training, and capacity-building staff, programs, and services from … Continue reading Defining the Path Forward for NLM’s New Office of Engagement and Training

Policy—and its cousin, legislation—make the world go ‘round. They lay out a course of action, guide decisions, and set the parameters for future choices. While policies and legislation are being crafted, it’s a tug of war between details and context, minutiae and meaning, big picture and nuance, with that push and pull yielding documents that … Continue reading NLM and Public Policy

NLM is and always has been committed to providing access to trustworthy information. We pride ourselves on being an authoritative source of reliable biomedical and health information for scientists, clinicians, the public, and policy makers—a role that begins by building a collection of quality materials, carefully selected. Our collection development policy, coupled with long-standing library … Continue reading Promoting Trust in Trustable Information

Last week NLM took another big step in revving up its intramural research operation. On Tuesday, January 15, we launched a national search for a scientific director to oversee all intramural research, a move that elevates the position and reflects its broad-based, trans-NLM scope of responsibilities. The new position arises in response to the Blue … Continue reading Revving Up NLM Research

We have a strategic plan. And that plan has three sound and notable goals. So why do we also need a big hairy audacious goal? The easy answer is that the Blue Ribbon Panel tasked with reviewing NLM's intramural research program suggested it. But the real answer pushes us further: To break the limits on … Continue reading Wanted: Big Hairy Audacious Goals