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International Medlars Centers Fact Sheet

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) enters into bilateral agreements with public institutions in foreign countries to serve as International MEDLARS Centers. These Centers assist health professionals in accessing MEDLARS databases, offer search training, provide document delivery and perform other functions as biomedical information resource centers.

Many Centers have sites on the World Wide Web (see URL's below).

For more specific information regarding NLM's International Programs, please contact:

Associate Director for
Health Information Programs Development
National Library of Medicine
8600 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, MD 20894

ip@nlm.nih.gov

For information about the services offered by any International MEDLARS Center, please write, call, or send an e-mail inquiry directly to that Center or visit their Home Page on the WWW.

*MEDLARS (MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System) is the computerized system of databases and databanks offered by the National Library of Medicine.

INTERNATIONAL MEDLARS CENTERS

AUSTRALIA
National Library of Australia
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
Telephone: 61-2-6262-1531
FAX: 61-2-6273-1180
e-mail: networks@nla.gov.au
Web site: http://www.nla.gov.au/medline/

CANADA
Canada Institute for Scientific and
Technical Information (CISTI)
National Research Council of Canada
Montreal Road, Building M-55
Ottawa, Ontario KIA OS2
Canada
Telephone: 1-800-668-1222
FAX: 613-952-8244
e-mail: cisti.info@nrc.ca
Web site: http://www.nrc.ca/cisti/cisti_e.shtml

CHINA
Institute of Medical Information
Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
3, Yabao Road, Choyang District
Beijing 10002, China
Telephone: 8610-512-8185
FAX: 8610-512-8176
e-mail: wangrk@bepc2.ihep.ac.cn
Web site: http://www.library.imicams.ac.cn

EGYPT
ENSTINET
Academy of Scientific Research and Technology
P.O. Box 1522, Attaba 11511
Cairo, Egypt
Telephone: 202-355-7253
FAX: 202-354-7807
e-mail: ab@enstinet.eg.net
Web site: http://www.sti.sci.eg

FRANCE
INSERM
101, rue de Tolbiac
75654 Paris Cedex 13
Paris
Telephone: 33-1-44-23-60-70
FAX: 33-1-44-23-60-99
e-mail: advocat@inserm-dicdoc.u-strasbg.fr
Web site: http://www.inserm.fr./

GERMANY
Deutsches Institute for Medical
German Institute for Medical Documentation and Information (DIMDI)
Waisenhausgasse 36-38a
50676 Köln, Germany
Telephone: 49-221-4724-1
FAX: 49-221-4724-444
e-mail: posteingang@dimdi.de
Web site: http://www.dimdi.de

HONG KONG
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Prince of Wales Hospital
Li Ping Medical Library
Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong
Telephone: 852-2632-2464
FAX: 852-2637-7817
e-mail: medlars@cuhk.edu.hk
Web site: http://www.medlars.cuhk.edu.hk

INDIA
National Informatics Center
Ministry of Information Technology
A-Block, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road
New Delhi 110-003, India
Telephone: 91-11-436-2359
FAX: 91-11-436-2628
e-mail: medinfo@hub.nic.in
Web site: http://indmed.nic.in

ISRAEL
Hebrew University, Hadassah Medical
School Berman National Medical Library
P.O. Box 12272
Jerusalem 91120, Israel
Telephone: 972-2-675-8790
FAX: 972-2-675-7106
e-mail: dafna@mdlib.huji.ac.il

ITALY
Istituto Superiore di Sanita
Viale Regina Elena, 299
00161 Rome, Italy
Telephone: 39-06-49903277
FAX: 39-(0)6-49387117
e-mail: documentazione@iss.it
Web site: http://www.iss.it

JAPAN
Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
Office of Science and Technology Information
Department of Planning and Coordination
5-3, Yonbancho,
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0081 Japan
Telephone: 81-3-5214-8402
FAX: 81-3-5214-8420
Web site: http://www.jst.go.jp/EN/

KOREA
Medical Library
Seoul National University
College of Medicine
28 Yongon-dong, Chongno-gu
Seoul 110-799, Korea
Telephone: 822-740-8044
FAX: 822-762-5363
Web site: http://library.snu.ac.kr/eng/main.jsp

KUWAIT
Ministry of Public Health
Kuwait Institute for Medical Specialization
P.O. Box 1793 Safat
Code 13018, Kuwait
Telephone: 965-247-2210
FAX: 965-241-0028

MEXICO
Centro de Informacion para Decisiones en Salud
7a Cerrada de Fray Pedro de Gante No. 50
Colonia Seccion 16
Delegacion Tlalpan
Mexico, D. F.
Telephone: 565-54-22-4
FAX: 557-30-00-9
e-mail: cenids@insp.mx
Web site: http://www.ssa.gob.mx/

NORWAY
University of Oslo
Library of Medicine and Health Sciences
Postboks 1113, Blindern
N-0317 Oslo,Norway
Telephone: 47-23-07-44-34
Fax: 47-23-07-44-30
E-mail: p.a.jakobsson@ub.uio.no
Web site: http://www.www.ub.uio.no/umh/

RUSSIA
The State Central Scientific Medical Library
30, Krasikova St.
117418, Moscow, Russia
Telephone: 7-095-128-33-46
FAX: 7-095-128-87-39
e-mail: loginov@server.scsml.rssi.ru

SOUTH AFRICA
South African Medical Research Council
P.O. Box 19070
Tygerberg 7505, South Africa
Telephone: 27-21-938-0219
FAX: 27-21-938-0201
e-mail: louw@eagle.mrc.ac.za
Web site: http://www.mrc.ac.za

SWEDEN
Karolinska Institute Library
PO Box 200
S-171-77 Stockholm, Sweden
Telephone: 46-8-728-8000
FAX: 46-8-330-0481
e-mail: per.olsson@kib.ki.se
Web site: http://www.kib.ki.se

UNITED KINGDOM
The British Library
Boston Spa, Wetherby
West Yorkshire LS23 7BQ
United Kingdom
Telephone: 44-1-937-546364
FAX: 44-1-937-546458
e-mail: blink-helpdesk@bl.uk
Web site: http://www.bl.uk/

PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION
(PAHO) Headquarters, Room 854
525 Twenty-third Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20037
Telephone: 202-861-3212
FAX: 202 223-5971
e-mail: gamboa@nlm.nih.gov
Web site: http://www.bireme.br/

BIREME/PAHO
Centro Latino Americano e de Caribe
Informcao em Ciencias da Saude
Organizacao Pan-Americana da Saude
Rua Botucatu 862
Vila Clementino
04023, SP-901
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Telephone: 55-11-549-2611
FAX: 55-11-571-1919
e-mail: abel@brm.bireme.br
Web site: http://www.bireme.br/

INTERGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION
Science and Technology Information
Center 106, Sec. 2, Ho-Ping E. Rd.
Taipei 10636, Taiwan
Telephone: 886-2-737-7690
FAX: 886-2-737-7664
e-mail: ctyu@mail.stic.gov.tw
Web site: http://www.stic.gov.tw/STPI/English/e_index.htm

Last updated: 16 May 2006
First published: 22 December 2003
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