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NLM Email Lists

NLM Email Lists

NLM Data Distribution

NLM Catalog Record Data
Announcements for Catalog Record Data - bibliographic records for books, journals and other materials from NLM's collections made available in NLMXML, MARCXML and MARC 21 formats.

MeSH
Announcements for Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) - a hierarchically organized terminology for indexing and cataloging of biomedical information, used for the indexing of PubMed and other NLM databases.

NLM Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery

DOCLINE-L (more information)
Unmoderated discussion list restricted to registered DOCLINE users. It provides a forum for DOCLINE users to communicate with each other about any issue related to DOCLINE or resource sharing among the greater biomedical library community.

NLM Publications

CITINGMED
Announcement-only list about updates to Citing Medicine, an online reference book published by the National Library of Medicine.

Literature Databases

MEDLINE/PubMed
Announcements for PubMed, PubMed Central (PMC), and E-utilities.

PubMed Central (PMC) announcements
Email list for announcements of new or updated tools and utilities specifically related to PMC's free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.

Terminology and Vocabulary

RXNORM-ANNOUNCES-L
Announcement-only list about major changes to the RxNorm release files, technical issues related to accessing the files, and other important announcements.

SNOMEDCT-ANNOUNCES-L
Announcement-only list provides information to users about SNOMED CT, including major changes to the SNOMED CT release files, technical issues related to accessing the files, and other related announcements. More information about SNOMED CT can be found at: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/healthit/snomedct/index.html

UMLSUSERS-L
UMLS (Unified Medical Language System) users are encouraged to subscribe to this list, to share their experiences with, or seek advice from the UMLS community on using UMLS resources. NLM also uses this forum to distribute official announcements about UMLS products and services. Questions? Please contact us through the NLM Support Center form.

NLM Email List Assistance

Traditional Email LISTSERVs

Contact the NIH LISTSERV administrators at listmaster@list.nih.gov

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) from the NIH LISTSERV

Instructions for General Users: Manual for list subscribers from NIH LISTSERV

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Last Reviewed: April 15, 2025