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The following references cite works that discuss the products and services of the National Library of Medicine. 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.)

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• Atlas MC. The rise and fall of the medical mediated searcher. Bull Med Libr Assoc 2000 Jan;88(1):26-35.
• Baasiri RA, Glasser SR, Steffen DL, Wheeler DA. The breast cancer gene database: a collaborative information resource. Oncogene 1999 Dec 23;18(56):7958-65.
• Bennett NA, He Q, Powell K, Schatz BR. Extracting noun phrases for all of MEDLINE. Proc AMIA Symp 1999:671-5.
• Benson DA, Karsch-Mizrachi I, Lipman DJ, Ostell J, Rapp BA, Wheeler DL. GenBank. Nucleic Acids Res 2000 Jan 1;28(1):15-8.
• Berrios DC, Kehler A, Fagan LM. Knowledge requirements for automated inference of medical textbook markup. Proc AMIA Symp 1999:676-80.
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• Booth A. Mapping the evidence base of pathology. J Pathol 1999 Aug;188(4):344- 50.
• Buchanan HS, Morris RC, Kauley TD. Serving native health needs: merging technology and traditional information services. West J Med 1999 Nov-Dec;171(5- 6):373-5.
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• Burrows SC, Tylman V. Evaluating medical student searches of MEDLINE for evidence- based information: process and application of results. Bull Med Libr Assoc 1999 Oct;87(4):471-6.
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• Calvo T. Your lifesaving guide to the best medical Websites. McCalls 2000 Mar:100.
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• Candler C. Caveat lector: getting quality out of the Internet. J Okla State Med Assoc 1999 Oct;92(10):508-9.
• Candler C. The economy of medical knowledge. J Okla State Med Assoc 2000 Feb;93(2):70-1.
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• Fonger GC. Biomedical, environmental and toxicological information via the World Wide Web at the National Library of Medicine. Environ Epidemiol Toxicol 1999;1(2):167-74.
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• Hauser SE, Le DX, Thoma GR. Automated zone correction in bitmapped document images. Proc SPIE 2000;3967:248-58.
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• Holton N. Online database is a hit. Health24 News [serial on the Internet] 2000 Mar 16 [cited 2000 Mar 16];1(28):[8 paragraphs]. Available from: http://www.health24news.com/.
• Homan JM. E-biomed [editorial]. Bull Med Libr Assoc 1999 Oct;87(4):485-6.
• Hopewell PC. Translating discoveries into control of tuberculosis in HIV-infected persons. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2000 Feb;4(2 Suppl 1):S82-7.
• Jabs C. Best bets for fast facts. Family PC 1999 Aug 23:[13 paragraphs].
• Jenuth JP. The NCBI. Publicly available tools and resources on the Web. Methods Mol Biol 2000;132:301-12.
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• Ley K, Brewer K, Moton A. A web-based research tool for functional genomics of the microcirculation: the leukocyte adhesion cascade. Microcirculation 1999 Dec;6(4):259-65.
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• Lugo-Vicente H. Internet resources and web pages for pediatric surgeons. Semin Pediatr Surg 2000 Feb;9(1):11-8.
• Macias-Chapula CA. AIDS in Haiti: a bibliometric analysis. Bull Med Libr Assoc 2000 Jan;88(1):56-61.
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• Macilwain C. PNAS joins peer-reviewed PubMed Central. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [news]. Nature 1999 Oct 21;401(6755):733.
• Maglott DR, Katz KS, Sicotte H, Pruitt KD. NCBI's LocusLink and RefSeq. Nucleic Acids Res 2000 Jan 1;28(1):126-8.
• Marcelo AB. An analysis of Philippine- oriented biomedical literature in MEDLINE from 1963-1999. J Philippine Dent Assoc 1999 Sep-Nov;51(2):20-7.
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• McCray AT, Loane RF, Browne AC, Bangalore AK. Terminology issues in user access to Web-based medical information. Proc AMIA Symp 1999:107-11.
• McDonald FS, Chute CG, Ogren PV, Wahner- Roedler D, Elkin PL. A large-scale evaluation of terminology integration characteristics. Proc AMIA Symp 1999:864- 7.
• Mehnert B. National Library of Medicine online medical diagnostics. E Gov Journal 2000 Mar-Apr;3(2):1, 23, 27.
• Mehta N. Searching the Internet for medical information: practical tips. Cleve Clin J Med 1999 Oct;66(9):543-6, 549-50, 553.
• Metheny B. From the dust bowl to DC: Frances Humphrey Howard has served her nation well as she retires from the National Library of Medicine at 85. Wash Fax 1999 Dec 7:[16 paragraphs]. Available from: http://www.washingtonfax.com//.
• Mendonca EA, Cimino JJ. Evaluation of the Information Sources Map. Proc AMIA Symp 1999:873-7.
• Mijnhout GS, Hooft L, van Tulder MW, Deville WL, Teule GJ, Hoekstra OS. How to perform a comprehensive search for FDG- PET literature. Eur J Nucl Med 2000 Jan;27(1):91-7.
• Miller N, Lacroix EM, Backus JE. MEDLINEplus: building and maintaining the National Library of Medicine's consumer health Web service. Bull Med Libr Assoc 2000 Jan;88(1):11-7.
• Morales A, Heaton JP, Carson CC 3rd. Andropause: a misnomer for a true clinical entity. J Urol 2000 Mar;163(3):705-12.
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• New online tools for scholars: 3 [editorial]. Science 1999 Oct 22;286(5440):679.
• NIH Web site to boost clinical trials. Am Med News 2000 Mar 20;43(11):32.
• NLM announces online health information initiative. Inform Today 2000 Mar;17(3):35.
• NLM funds CHI service at NY Public Library branches. Consum Patient Health Inform News 1999 Summer;16(1):5.
• NLM's Dr. Melvin Spann retires: hailed for achievements in technology and minority health. Healthc Village News [serial on the Internet] 1999 Nov 30 [cited 1999 Nov 30]:[7 paragraphs]. Available from: http://www.HcVN.com/vnnews/
• Onkamo P, Vaananen S, Karvonen M, Tuomilehto J. Worldwide increase in incidence of Type I diabetes--the analysis of the data on published incidence trends. Diabetologia 1999 Dec;42(12):1395-403.
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• Ouellette F. Internet resources for the clinical geneticist. Clin Genet 1999 Sep;56(3):179-85.
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• Rindflesch TC, Hunter L, Aronson AR. Mining molecular binding terminology from biomedical text. Proc AMIA Symp 1999:127- 31.
• Rosser WW, Starkey C, Shaughnessy R. The pond is wider than you think! Problems encountered when searching family practice literature. Can Fam Physician 2000 Jan;46(1):103-8.
• Ruch P, Wagner J, Bouillon P, Baud RH, Rassinoux AM, Scherrer JR. MEDTAG: tag- like semantics for medical document indexing. Proc AMIA Symp 1999:137-41.
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• Smith RD, Williams M. Applications of informatics in veterinary medicine. Bull Med Libr Assoc 2000 Jan;88(1):49-55.
• Srinivasan P. Exploring the UMLS: a rough sets based theoretical framework. Proc AMIA Symp 1999:156-60.
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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.

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