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STANFORD SEARCHES FOR PROFITS WITH E-SKOLAR Stanford University has launched a new for-profit company, e-Skolar Inc., featuring an online medical search engine that enables doctors to perform simultaneous searches across multiple databases, including textbooks, peer-reviewed medical journals, drug databases, updated clinical guidelines and the National Library of Medicine. The new service, which will not carry advertising, will be available for a $240 annual subscription fee. E-Skolar prides itself on the quality of its offerings and its speedy delivery of information. "If you go to other sites, you can't tell the wheat from the chaff," says Phyllis Gardner, senior associate dean of education and student affairs at Stanford. "Consumer information is mixed in and it's a nightmare for doctors. This is all peer-reviewed, high quality literature." (Wall Street Journal 9 May 2000) http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB957831343399868698.htm janet paterson 53 now / 41 dx / 37 onset 613 256 8340 / PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario K0A 1A0 Canada come visit my website "a new voice" at: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/