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Linking your Web Site to MEDLINEplus
Does your institution's web site need consumer health information? If it does, The National Library of Medicine invites you to link from your web site to MEDLINEplus at http://medlineplus.gov/. MEDLINEplus brings together, by health topic, authoritative information from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), other government, non-profit and other health-related organizations. Preformulated MEDLINE searches are included in MEDLINEplus and give easy access to the medical research literature. It also provides you with a database of full-text drug information, interactive health tutorials and an illustrated medical encyclopedia.
Advantages of linking to MEDLINEplus include:
- It's free
- You can count on its information being authoritative
- It doesn't use cookies or require registration
- It's up to date
What's the best way to link to MEDLINEplus? You are welcome to link to MEDLINEplus or any of the over 500 health topic pages, either directly or by opening a new window. The advantage of opening a new window is that your users still have a browser window with your web site available. Also, because of arrangements with licensed content providers, please do not place any pages in a frame.
Here are some images and text to assist you in coding your HTML link to MEDLINEplus. Please observe the form of the MEDLINEplus name, which should always begin with "MEDLINE" in capital letters and "plus" in lower-case letters.
To point to MEDLINEplus, the code is:
- MEDLINEplus
- <a
href=http://medlineplus.gov/>MEDLINEplus</A>
To point users to MEDLINEplus and open the results in a new window, the code is:
- MEDLINEplus
- <a href="http://medlineplus.gov/"target="medlinepluswindow">MEDLINEplus</A>
Additional text to describe MEDLINEplus and graphics are available from the Linking to MEDLINEplus page at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/linking.html.
Information on Linking MEDLINEplus provided by:
Naomi Miller and Jennifer Marill
Public Services Division
National Library of Medicine
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