HEALTH CONSUMERS GET WEB BREAK U.S. ALLOWS FREE, OPEN INTERNET ACCESS TO MEDICAL LIBRARY CHICAGOLAND FINAL Edition

Last week, in a startling policy reversal that indicates the speed at which the information revolution is progressing, the government gave all Americans free and open Web access to MEDLINE, the world's pre-eminent collection of published medical information. Only a few years ago, MEDLINE was co...

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Published inChicago tribune (1963)
Main Author Peter Gorner. Peter Gorner is a Tribune science writer
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Chicago, Ill Tribune Publishing Company, LLC 29.06.1997
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HEALTH
Health care
Internet
World Wide Web
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Summary:Last week, in a startling policy reversal that indicates the speed at which the information revolution is progressing, the government gave all Americans free and open Web access to MEDLINE, the world's pre-eminent collection of published medical information. Only a few years ago, MEDLINE was considered a secret resource limited to the anointed. Sick patients, journalists, even students had to talk their way into medical school libraries and beg for searches to unearth the latest studies relating to their conditions, stories or term papers. MEDLINE is managed by the National Library of Medicine, part of the National Institutes of Health. As recently as last month--when the issue was last covered in the Tribune's Perspective--Americans had to register and pay to search MEDLINE and other library databases.
ISSN:1085-6706