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When a company is sold there is change, and change is opportunity. The sale of BRS Online Products by MHC, Inc., the holding company for parent company Macmillin, Inc. and [...]

Because of differences in indexing, journal coverage, time coverage, types of publications included, language coverage, and other special features, unique citations will be retrieved from each database. Cumulative Index to [...]

The primary nursing databases are the Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) and International Nursing Index (INI), a subset of MEDLINE. They have been compared by Fried [...]

There seems to be a lot of interest in alternative medicine today. Many articles are published in professional journals, consumer magazines, newspapers, and television or radio also broadcast stories about [...]

Books are an expensive part of Health science library's collection. Access to authoritative book reviews in online databases is a cost-effective way to aid in collection development decisions [1]. Fortunately, [...]

The inspiration for this article began at two sessions and the exhibits at the ONLINE/CD-ROM '92 meeting in Chicago in October 1992. Health and medical topics are frequently discussed on [...]

In 1991, BRS developed a new system feature that makes it easier for all levels of searchers to search databases with controlled vocabulary descriptors. Databases must be reprogrammed to make [...]

It appears to me that there is a great deal of interest in ethics these days. Hardly a week goes by without some newsworthy item in the press or on [...]

When the diagnosis is cancer, patients need to be referred to doctors and programs that provide state-of-the-art treatment. The National Cancer Institute in Bethesda Maryland has designed the PDQ (Physician [...]

Database producers and online search services use a variety of methods to learn what their customers want and need. One of the most effective is gathering input from a standing [...]

Medical consumerism is on the rise. More and more people want to be informed about staying healthy and more patients now want information to help them make decisions about medical […]

PDQ Search Aids The National Cancer Institute wants to cut the cancer mortality rate in the United States in half by the year 2000. PDQ (Physician Data Query) database is […]

The nursing association Sigma Theta Tau International introduced two new online databases for nursing on Nov 29, 1993, to which subscriptions became available in Jan 1994. The Virginia Henderson International Nursing Library is a collection of six databases searchable by BRS Search software. The Online Journal of Knowledge Synthesis for Nursing is a collection of critical review articles, which was was jointly developed with OCLC and uses OCLC's GUIDON graphical search software. The contents of the databases are described., On November 29, 1993, nurses were introduced to several exciting new online databases at Sigma Theta Tau International's (STTI) first-ever Information Technologies Exposition held in conjunction with the STTI biennial [...]

Several new and existing databases have provided drug and biomedical searchers with quick access to updated, and even prepublication, data on products, treatments, and industry issues. Four databases introduced in 1993 are summarized: 48 Hours, Conference Fast-Track New Chemical Entities, EMBASE Alert, and R and D Focus Drug News. Online daily updates of newsletters also are described, and other databases are listed., In this age of impatient, type A personalities, instant gratification, fast cars, and fast food, fast information is also popular. Several new databases have been introduced since January 1993 that [...]

* What problems are caused by simultaneous infusion of aminophylline and perfloxacin? * Does ethanol enhance the effects of aspirin on bleeding time? * What are the general adverse reactions [...]

It may be called a Practice, Training or ONTAP file, but this type of small database is a microcosm of its larger parent database. Using such a subset file is [...]

Rumors abounded in the fall of 1991 that Maxwell Online was for sale, but on October 24 at Maxwell Online User Days, CEO Jim Terragno stated categorically that these rumors [...]

While a search on the topic of cancer and nutrition may sound simple, it really can be quite complex, since the field of nutrition and dietetics covers a broad range [...]

StarSearch For The Health Sciences Multifile searching just got easier. In April 1991, Data-Star introduced a new flexible system called StarSearch, which provides a fast and easy way to search [...]

Strange as it sounds, the membership of the huge American Medical Association (AMA), could not adequately support its own online search service, AMA/Net. Despite the fact that AMA/Net became a [...]

Reflections On War And Information The high tech shooting war to liberate Kuwait began about 6:30 p.m. EST on January 16, 1991, and so did the television coverage. ABC and [...]

DIRLINE: An Online Directory Of Health Information And Resources Are you stumped about where to find a brochure that describes the hazards of asbestos ... or a book that lists [...]

For cancer information, CANCERLIT is the bibliographic database of choice. Currently 70,000 citations per year are added to CANCERLIT, with about 60,000 being journal citations extracted from MEDLINE. The remaining [...]

In 1988, Bonnie Snow discussed the challenge of searching the conference literature and suggested major online sources of interest to biomedical searchers [1]. since that time, changes to three databases [...]

Data-Star For Health Science Searchers Nineteen Ninety marks the 10th Anniversary of Data-Star (D-S), the online search service of Radio-Suisse, located in Berne, Switzerland. In this time D-S has become [...]

Material Safety Data Sheets: Online And CD-ROM Sources Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) are one component of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) Hazard Communication Standard. This regulation, announced [...]

Subject Code Searching In Biomedical Databases Subject codes are the shorthand of online databases, whether the code or the codeword text is used. Most biomedical searchers are familiar with MeSH [...]

ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING AT THE MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SOCIETY: AN INTERVIEW WITH BART RUBENSTEIN Dynamic electronic publishing techniques are used by one of the most venerable medical publishers, the Massachusetts Medical Society [...]

The proverbial needle in the haystack is getting easier to find with the introduction of the Health Instrument File (HIFF) on BRS in October 1988. The instruments in this database [...]

MEDLINE is produced by the National Library of Medicine (NLM). It indexes over 3,200 international journals with over 5.6 million citations from 1966 to the present. All aspects of health [...]

I've done many things in my several professional careers. First I was a physical chemist taking x-ray pictures of crystals for structural analysis, and then I analyzed pigeon brains to [...]

While MEDLARS is one of the oldest online bibliographic database systems in the information industry today, changes and enhancements in the last few years warrant another look at the National […]

EMBASE PLUS is an international database of 3.5 million records, providing pharmaceutical and biomedical information from over 4,500 journals published in 110 countries. The original language for about 75% of [...]

Turnover in professional, administrative, managerial, and technical jobs these days is about 25%, according to government and industry sources. But looking through the classified jobs want ads in printed sources [...]

The National Library of Medicine's (NLM) MEDLARS system is a rich source of unique information about hazardous and toxic effects of virtually thousands of chemicals. Currently this information is mounted [...]

This is an unusual directory that combines a broad array of sources and focuses on organizations that provide healthcare/medical industry information. Trade and professional associations, publishers, market research frims, government [...]

Humor is important in patient and customer relations, can be used to liven up lectures, speeches, and training programs, and is said to have a beneficial effect on the immune [...]

ReSources: Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Information News Produced by a leading pharmaceutical publisher, ReSources is a new monthly newsletter that focuses on information aspects of the pharmaceutical, medical device, diagnostics, human [...]

Personal Filing Systems: Creating Information Retrieval Systems on Microcomputers Many researchers, scientists, and physicians accumulate large personal files of reprints, books, and other publications, but have difficulty in efficient retrieval [...]

** 1/2 Darling, Louise, David Bishop and Lois Ann Colaianni, eds. Handbook of Medical Library Practice: Health Science Librarianship and Administration. Volume 3, 4th ed. Chicago: Medical Library Association, 1988. [...]

**** Snow, Bonnie. Drug Information: A Guide to Current Resources. Chicago: Medical Library Association, 1989. 243pp. The volume of information about drugs, drug therapy, and the pharmaceutical industry necessitates a [...]

** Weitzen, H. Skip and Genda, William B. Infopreneurs: Tuming Data into Dollars. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1988. 228pp. Weitzen is an information marketing consultant, who in 1985 [...]