The Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Francis Collins, has formed a working group to articulate a vision for the future of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) as part of the transition taking place with the retirement of the long-serving NLM Director, Don Lindberg, this spring. As part of this process the working group is calling for community responses to a request for information by March 13.

The RFI can be found at:

and information about the working group is at:

NLM has been an incredibly important part of the research and scholarly communications environment, as well as a key bridge between the research community and the broader public, in recent decades and it's vital that it has the benefit of the best thinking as it maps its future.

Clifford Lynch