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Free MedLine access announcement (fwd.)
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NIH Press Release
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
National Library of Medicine

The National Library of Medicine, a part of the National Institutes of
Health, will today launch a new service to provide all Americans free ac-
cess to MEDLINE -- the world's most extensive collection of published medi-
cal information -- over the World Wide Web.

Prior to this announcement, users have had to register and pay to search
MEDLINE and other NLM databases. This free service will be demonstrated by
Vice President Albert Gore at a press briefing to be hosted by Senator Tom
Harkin (D-IA) on Thursday, June 26, 1997 at 10:30 a.m. in Room 192 of the
Dirksen Senate Office Building, United States Senate. In announcing the new
free service, Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala said,
"American citizens now have at their fingertips both the scientific infor-
mation gathered by the National Library of Medicine, as represented in
MEDLINE, and the extensive consumer health information in Healthfinder, the
service for the public that we announced in April. We are committed to us-
ing the new technology, including the World Wide Web and the Internet, to
provide health information to the public."

The web address for the National Library of Medicine is:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov

Press will also be invited to view a demonstration of "PubMed" -- a new
free NLM online service that will allow the public to establish direct web
links between MEDLINE abstracts and the publishers of the full- text arti-
cles. This new service is the result of a collaboration between the NLM and
major science publishers such as the New England Journal of Medicine, Sci-
ence, Journal of Biological Chemistry, and The Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences.

[End of press release.]

[The www address of PubMed is:

http://www4.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed

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