Murray: You've done it again. Most excellent links.
And I don't mean sausages. (Just a little p-g humor. I
know how you adore them.)      Carole H.

--- Murray Charters <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Hi folks and Good Morning...........
>
> Here is an encouraging item...
>
> AMA Launches Searchable Database of Full-Text
> Articles From Their Journals
> September 29, 1999
> MedscapeWire
> All editorial material from The Journal of the
> American Medical Association
> (JAMA) and the American Medical Association's (AMA)
> Archives Journals is now
> available online through the AMA Publications Web
> site
> (www.amapublications.com). Original research, review
> articles, editorials,
> letters and book reviews, as well as other editorial
> material from JAMA and the
> Archives Journals, are available online in a
> full-text, completely searchable
> format free of charge to all users for a limited
> time. E-mail alerts of the
> journals' tables of contents also are available free
> of charge. The information
> is formatted to allow users to view all information
> from the journals and search
> one, several, or all of the journals using text
> words, author names, or related
> articles. These search capabilities provide rapid
> access to peer-reviewed,
> original research and important medical information
> published by JAMA and the
> Archives Journals. References listed at the end of
> articles are linked to
> full-text versions of the referenced articles
> available on the site. Other
> referenced articles for which abstracts are
> available on the National Library of
> Medicine's database, MEDLINE, are linked to PubMed,
> the public access Web site
> for MEDLINE. For users who wish to create a print
> copy of the article, the
> article can either be printed directly or downloaded
> as a portable document
> format (PDF) file, for a version of the article that
> appears just as it does in
> print in the journal. "Providing JAMA and the
> Archives Journals online and full
> text in a fully searchable format will provide
> physicians and other health care
> professionals with rapid access to the information
> they need to help them care
> for patients," according to Margaret Winker, MD,
> deputy editor of JAMA and
> director of the Division of Scientific Online
> Resources. "The explosion of
> medical information and the great interest patients
> have in learning about
> medical issues make such access vitally important to
> the practice of medicine
> today." Initially, the site includes all of the
> journals' 1999 editorial
> material to date and all new editorial material will
> be posted simultaneously at
> the time each new issue of the journals is
> published. Full text for all material
> from the journals for 1998 will be added over the
> coming months.
>
> Links:
> http://www.amapublications.com
> http://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/freemedl.html
> http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/
> http://www.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/
> http://igm.nlm.nih.gov/
>
> All the best .............. murray
> [log in to unmask]
>



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