There are many ways to access Medline for free on the internet. After
significant frustration our group ranked the sites for ease of access and
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at:
Internet Medline Comparison Table at Medical Matrix***
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Ranks free and fee based medline services available on the Internet.
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Oregon Health Sciences University
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Joe Felsenstein <joe at evolution.genetics.washington.edu> wrote in article
<5h6ehr$pm8 at nntp3.u.washington.edu>...
> In article <E7Hw5A.C3r.B.midge at bath.ac.uk>,
> W R Bennett <bspwrb at bath.ac.uk> wrote:
> >Our university, as with many others, has a license to access MEDLINE and
> >SCI, but these databases only go as far back as 1981. Anyone know if
> >there's a (free) gateway which would allow me to on-line search for
> >abstracts as far back as 1970 in the life sciences? (I realise it's not
> >very likely, but you never know...)
>> Our University's MEDLINE subscription enables us to search back to 1966,
> which is I presume as far as Medline goes back. So you could ask your
> library people whether they could either get University access to those
earlier
> years, as the databases do exist, or whether they could find some way for
you
> to do a search of them on a special-case basis.
>> I wish Medline would put a small amount of money into gradually going
back
> further -- it would probably not cost much, as the size the biomedical
> literature shrinks as one goes back. Furthermore, one does not have to
> "keep up" with that literature -- it's of finite size and isn't growing.
> It would be lovely to search back to 1900, or even 1850.
>> I have set followups to bionet.journals.note which is appropriate for
this
> discussion.
>> --
> Joe Felsenstein joe at genetics.washington.edu (IP No.
128.95.12.41)
> Dept. of Genetics, Univ. of Washington, Box 357360, Seattle, WA
98195-7360 USA
>
