Once and Future Web

MEDLINEplus Gets Upgrade

IGM to be Retired

Human Genome Mapped

Turning the Pages

How Will Technology Shape the Future of Health Care?

Do the Dead Tell Tales After All?

Profiles in Science

Public Libraries and Consumer Health

RML Contracts Announced

Rep. Christian-Christsensen Speaks at NLM

Native American Youth Visit NLM

New Exhibit's Brewing at HMD

Pats on the Back

EP Division Announces Appointments

NLM Pioneer Dave McCarn Dies

Names in the News

Products and Publications

NLM In Print

The following references cite works that discuss the products and services of the NLM. If you know of other appropriate citations for this column, please send reprints or references to Melanie Modlin, Editor, NLM NEWSLINE, Office of Communications and Public Liaison, NLM, Bethesda, MD 20894, or e-mail to: mm354i@nih.gov. (NOTE: Some of the articles listed may be outside the scope of the NLM collection and therefore are not available from the Library on interlibrary loan.)

• Bradbury A. Sorting out the Smiths. Nature. 2001 May 17;411(6835):237.
• Brodsky FM, Marsh MC, Schmid SL. Editorial: Into the fast lane with MEDLINE! Traffic. 2001 Jan;2(1):1.
• Brummitt A. Currents in medical informatics. The Woods Hole experience. MD Comput. 2001 Jan- Feb;18(1):34-6.
• De S, Jones T, Brazier H, Jones AS, Fenton JE. The accuracy of MEDLINE and Journal contents pages for papers published in Clinical Otolaryngology. Clin Otolaryngol. 2001 Feb;26(1):39-42.
• De Groote SL. PubMed, Internet Grateful Med, and Ovid: a comparison of three MEDLINE Internet interfaces. Med Ref Serv Q. 2000 Winter;19(4):1-13.
• Dollar DM. Using the National Library of Medicine's PubMed to improve clinical practice. Clin Excell Nurse Pract. 2001 Mar;5(2):119-24.
• Firstman R. Heal thyself. ON Mag. 2001 Apr;16(2):33-5.
• Fitzpatrick RB. The Community of Science, Inc. Med Ref Serv Q. 1999 Fall;18(3):57-63.
• Fitzpatrick RB. Resources from the Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Program (TEHIP). Med Ref Serv Q. 2000 Summer;19(2):65-72.
• Fitzpatrick RB, Hendler G. What every medical librarian should know about MEDLINEplus. Med Ref Serv Q. 1999 Winter;18(4):11-7.
• Ford G, Hauser SE, Le DX, Thoma GR. Pattern matching techniques for correcting low confidence OCR words in a known context. Proc SPIE. 2001;4307:241-9.
• Gagnon RE, Macnab AJ, Gagnon FA. A quantitative ranking of Canada's research output of original human studies for the decade 1989 to 1998. CMAJ. 2000 Jan 11;162(1):37-40.
• Gobel G, Masser J, Pfeiffer KP. MeSH based intelligent search intermediary for consumer health information systems. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2000;77:673-7.
• Goldstein DA. Airbag-related injuries in children: a MEDLINE search tip. Ophthalmology. 2001 Jun;108(6):1008-9.
• Goldman S. The U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) - a first-class international medical site. AMWA J. 2000 Fall;15(4):31.
• Guglani L, Gupta P. Effective PubMed search. Indian Pediatr. 2001 Jun;38(6):621-9.
• Heinrichs A. PubMed Central. Trends Mol Med. 2001 Mar;7(3):102.
• Henner TA. Free MEDLINE and implications for library operations. Med Ref Serv Q. 2000 Fall;19(3):71-9.
• Higginbottom PC. The use of Ovid local holdings messages: one library's experience. Med Ref Serv Q. 2000 Summer;19(2):17-25.
• How to research a medical topic. LifeTIMES. 2001 Apr- Jun;(1):28-31.
• Iliopoulos I, Enright AJ, Ouzounis CA. Textquest: document clustering of MEDLINE abstracts for concept discovery in molecular biology. Pac Symp Biocomput. 2001:384-95.
• Indrajit IK. MEDLINE. Natl Med J India. 2001 Jan-Feb;14(1):50-3.
• Ingui BJ, Rogers MA. Searching for clinical prediction rules in MEDLINE. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2001 Jul-Aug;8(4):391-7.
• Kaushansky K. Access to the biomedical literature: a stand against coercion. Blood. 2001 Apr 15;97(8):2195-6.
• Kim J, Le DX, Thoma GR. Automated Labeling in Document Images. Proc SPIE. 2001;4307:111-122.
• LaCroix EM. How consumers are gathering information from MEDLINEplus. Sci Commun. 2001 Mar;22(3):283-91.
• Landro L. People power: The federal government is using the Web to open up a treasure trove of medical information to consumers. The Wall Street Journal. 2001 Feb 21:[3 p.].
• Lasko TA, Hauser SE. Approximate string matching algorithms for limited- vocabulary OCR output correction. Proc SPIE. 2001;4307:241-9.
• Latteier C. Wellness on the Web. Alsk Airl Mag. 2001 Jun:26-7, 29, 31, 84, 87-8.
• Leduc Y, Cauchon M. Finding the right information at the right time. Part 2: MEDLINE, medical journals, and websites. Can Fam Physician. 2001 Mar;47:567-9, 577-9.
• Lindberg DA. NLM: largest biomedical collection. US Med. 2001 Jan:50-1.
• Lindberg DA. The National Library of Medicine's Web site for physicians and patients. JAMA. 2001 Feb 14;285(6):806.
• Long LR, Thoma GR. Identification and classification of spine vertebrae by automated methods. Proc SPIE. 2001;4307:1478-89.
• Long LR, Thoma GR. Feature indexing in a database of digitized x-rays. Proc SPIE. 2001;4307:393-403.
• Ludwig J. Electronic-book technology makes rare volume accessible to readers. Chron High Educ [Internet]. 2001 Mar 19 [cited 2001 Sep 6]:[about 2 p.]. Available from: http://chronicle.com/free/200 1/03/2001031901t.htm
• MacLennan A. Index Medicus and MEDLINE indexing for Climacteric. Climacteric. 2001 Jun;4(2):89-90.
• Mason DJ, Vaccaro K, Fessler MB. Early views of nurse practitioners: a MEDLINE search. Clin Excell Nurse Pract. 2000 May;4(3):175-83.
• McClure LW. A tribute to knowledge. Bull Med Libr Assoc. 2001 Jan;89(1):81-2.
• McEntyre J, Lipman D. PubMed: bridging the information gap. CMAJ. 2001 May 1;164(9):1317-9.
• McKnight M. Chair-elect visits NLM. Natl Netw. 2001 Apr;25(4):7, 13.
• Mehnert R. National Library of Medicine. In: Bogart D, editor. The Bowker annual library and book trade almanac. 46th ed. New Providence (NJ): R.R. Bowker; 2001. p. 81-6.
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• Menz HB. The case for multiple database searching in podiatric medicine. J Am Podiatr Med Assoc. 2001 Feb;91(2):103-4.
• Muscat M. Straus gives state of the center, CAM on PubMed unveiled. Altern Ther Health Med. 2001 Mar;7(2):23-6.
• O'Keefe JP. The right answers require the right questions. J Can Dent Assoc. 2001 Apr;67(4):187.
• Orlando L. PubMed policy change. Trends Neurosci. 2001 Jul;24(7):373.
• Queisser W, Scheithauer W. Indexing of onkologie in index Medicus/MEDLINE. Onkologie. 2001 Feb;24(1):8.
• Reese S. 3-D medicine. Techniques. 2001 Apr:28-9.
• Riethof DA, Balakrishnan R. LabVelocity: online tools for life science products, protocols, technical information, MEDLINE searches, and laboratory calculations. Biotechniques. 2001 Jun;30(6):1310-5.
• Roberts RJ. PubMed Central: The GenBank of the published literature. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 Jan 16;98(2):381-2.
• Roy N, Sunil U. Searching MEDLINE effectively. Natl Med J India. 2001 Mar-Apr;14(2):106-11.
• Sequeira E, McEntyre J, Lipman D. PubMed Central decentralized. Nature. 2001 Apr 12;410(6830):740.
• Serup J. Skin Research and Technology on electronic files, the Internet and MEDLINE/Index Medicus. Skin Res Technol. 2000 Aug;6(3):99.
• Sievert ME, Patrick TB, Reid JC. Need a bloody nose be a nosebleed? or, lexical variants cause surprising results. Bull Med Libr Assoc. 2001 Jan;89(1):68-71.
• Sjogren P, Halling A. Trends in dental and medical research and relevance of randomized controlled trials to common activities in general dentistry. Acta Odontol Scand. 2000 Dec;58(6):260-4.
• Smith KA, Sequiera E. Linking at the US National Library of Medicine. Learn Publ. 2001 Jan;14(1):23-8.
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• Wadman M. PubMed Central offers deal on content. Nature. 2001 Apr 12;410(6830):728-9.

Thanks to Jacque-Lynne Schulman, Technical Information Specialist, Medical Subject Headings, and Karen Patrias, Senior Resource Specialist, Public Services Division, for invaluable help in compiling this list.