title: The NLM Gateway: a metasearch engine for disparate resources.
abstract: The U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) has created a metasearch engine called the NLM Gateway at the URL "gateway.nlm.nih.gov". The Gateway allows the user to issue one search that takes place on multiple NLM retrieval engines. A composite result set is presented in several categories of information: journal citations; books, serials and audiovisuals; consumer health; meeting abstracts; and other collections.
authors.affiliation: U.S. National Library of Medicine, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA. kingsland@nlm.nih.gov
authors.forename: Lawrence C
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Kingsland
authors.forename: Maureen F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Prettyman
authors.forename: Sonya E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Shooshan
mesh_terms: D019992:Databases as Topic / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D016242:Library Automation; D008491:Medical Informatics Applications; D009317:National Library of Medicine (U.S.); D012984:Software; D018511:Systems Integration; D014481:United States