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Grateful Med® Software Discontinued

Grateful Med® Software Discontinued. NLM Technical Bulletin. 1998 Mar–Apr;(301):e1.

January 1998 [posted]

Users of the disk versions of Grateful Med declined dramatically last year after the announcement of free Web access. This was an important factor in the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) decision to not update the DOS, Macintosh, or Windows® versions of Grateful Med for 1998. This means that these versions of Grateful Med do not have the 1998 MeSH vocabulary or the programming necessary to allow the software to recognize the new MED93 backfile of MEDLINE® that contains citations to articles published in 1993 and 1994.

PubMed and Internet Grateful Med (IGM) are handling tens of thousands of searches a day and in recent months, new disk subscriptions often have numbered only ten to twenty a month. The expense required to re-program, test, and distribute the updated disks could not be justified, based on the numbers. NLM believes that its resources are best used improving PubMed and IGM. If searchers know of useful features in the Grateful Med disk products that they cannot replicate searching with PubMed or Internet Grateful Med, they should let NLM know at custserv@nlm.nih.gov.