NLM:API

The National Library of Medicine, released a new API Web page. An API(Application Programming Interface) is a set of routines that an application uses to request and carry out lower-level services performed by a computer's operating system.



For more details see: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/api/


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About API:

Some of your doubts.............WHO? WHAT? WHY? HOW?

see this post:

http://otherlibrarian.wordpress.com/2008/03/11/apis-who-what-why-how/