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The National Library of Medicine, housed on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) campus in Bethesda, Maryland, is the world's largest medical library. Its collections encompass over 7 million items, including books, technical reports, manuscripts, and photographs. The National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE (R), part of PubMed (R), is an online health information resource. It includes records on over 12 million journal articles, published from the 1950's to the present day. Additional databases include information on monographs and audiovisual materials. MEDLINE processes 500 million searches annually. National Library of Medicine research and development operations are handled by the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications (LHNCBC) and the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). The NCBI, established in 1988, organizes human genome information. The Toxicology and Environmental Health Program (TEHIP), established in 1967, is known for the Toxicology Data Network, or TOXNET (R), information resource. The National Library of Medicine also provides grants to medical, health, and biotechnology researchers. The agency employs 694 people. It operates on an annual budget of $313.3 million.
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