(1 Aug 97) PC Jock: Sharp-eyed readers of this month's Current Science Reviews will have noticed some changes, mainly several added source journals. This is due to the opening of Medline, the great database of the National Library of Medicine, a month ago to eleemosynary use. This generous move prompted me to upgrade my Internet service account to one which gives access to so-called web sites, of which Medline is one. After the usual struggle I got this working, and will share this brief experience so other listmembers can try it. The Medline database contains title citations and abstracts of all the articles in virtually every scholarly periodical (there are thousands) in the field of medicine. Currently two free search programs are offered, and the one I recommend is PubMed. To use it you only need to "open" http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed and the screen will tell you what to do next. You can search by all the common categories: Author, Journal, Keyword in text or title, and get a list of "hits" with the option to see any abstract you wish. A rare positive example of Your Tax Dollars At Work. On another subject: The monthly Index I have been posting with the Current Science Reviews is apparently too big, at 8+ pages, to go as a single e-mail message. Suggestions welcome, but I'll suspend posting while deciding what to do about it. Cheers, Joe