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hi all At 08:14 1999/08/08 EDT, clare wrote: >In a message dated 8/8/99 1:50:18 AM Mountain Daylight Time, >>[log in to unmask] writes: >>[there were a lot of pubmed PMID abstracts - ain't it grand?] >>reflects **only** my little portion of >>**only** one month in terms of pienet activity: > >Janet, that's a large index. Please tell me how one becomes >an "abstract" and designated as PMID and others have a "re" >line. Thanks. Clare Wilson items designated PMID [= PubMed IDentification number] are available at the PubMed web site [see my website for the link] PubMed, via the [USA] National Library of Medicine [NLM], provides free wwweb access to over 9 million articles published in recognized peer reviewed medical journals world wide [this service was formerly only available at a price at MEDLINE and was intended specifically for medicos] sometimes the article is referenced only [in other words, credits only, no content] in the medical journal [which are sometimes individually available on-line, but they mostly not for free} in most cases in pubmed the article is summarized in a form called an abstract [you still need to go to the journal source to read the entire article] i have been a happy hunter and digger in pubmed since it was officially introduced on the wwweb by usa vice-president al gore a few years ago [thank you, usa government = usa citizens and listmembers!] i post the ones that i think are relevant [to pd or otherwise to us] for two reasons: 1. to share the info / news with list-members [and thus by extension potentially with their support groups and/or medicos] and 2. to get the pmid abstracts into our list archives for a future hunter/digger's "aha!" the items marked "RE:" are messages i posted 'in Reply to' another message thus, items with no "RE:" are messages / subjects which originated with me the "RE:" designation is used by e-mail software for following the sequence or 'thread' of a cyber-conversation [as >are >>these >>>marks] gosh, ask me a simple question... janet ps re subject header 'designations': i just invented the "MOM:" designation to indicate "list business" others in use are: NEWS: for news items NON PD: or NPD: for non-parkinson's subjects QT: for Quotations ...etc per your imagination these designations stand out nicely since cyber words written in all capital letters are considered "shouted" any guidance of any kind as to subject matter in a posted message is a great help here! jp janet paterson 52 now / 41 dx / 37 onset snail-mail: PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario K0A 1A0 Canada website: a new voice <http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Village/6263/> e-mail: <[log in to unmask]>