[3] Like the US National Library of Medicine's (NLM) PubMed system, SafetyLit is a free service that is distributed without commercial messages.

SafetyLit also indexes selected doctoral theses and relevant technical reports from government agencies and NGOs.

This bibliographic update was a print-out of article citations from Medline that were indexed with selected MeSH terms related to the treatment and prevention of injuries.

The NCIPC update service ended in late 1994, about one year before the National Library of Medicine began providing an experimental version of PubMed.

By the end of 1998, with an administrative move from Louisiana to the San Diego State University, Graduate School of Public Health), the updates were circulated to more than 5000 subscribed addresses.

In 2001 the SafetyLit update service moved from a series of lengthy flat-file newsletters to a database-driven dynamic website.

[10] In mid-2013, to sustain the contents of the languishing VioLit database, SafetyLit formed a partnership with the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV), a research program of the Institute of Behavioral Science (IBS) at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

The VioLit database, had items related to preventing youth violence with most records including a thorough review written by CSPV experts.

With the loss of this revenue stream the SafetyLit Foundation was incorporated as a tax exempt organization to facilitate independent funding.

Each journal listing includes a link to the OCLC WorldCat find item in a nearby library service.

Researchers and policymakers who address controversial safety-related issues have been targets of threats or violence for hundreds of years from those with strong feelings who wish to obstruct certain knowledge for the basis of evidence-based policy.