TY  - JOUR
T1  - THe directory of online healthcare databases 1988
AU  - Hogan RW
Y1  - 1989/02/10
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1989.03420060142058
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 926
EP  - 927
VL  - 261
IS  - 6
N2  - Biomedical scholars are increasingly turning to electronic databases to find information. No one database has everything, and many exist. Therefore, some may be asking, "Do I have the right database to find what I need, and if not, where is the right database to be found?"This slim volume consists of 50 spiralbound pages packed with everything you ever wanted to know about databases, indexed four different ways: by title, description (including cost and brief comments on content), producer/ vendor, and subject.One hundred seventy-six on-line databases are described, increased by 60 in the past two years. Some of the databases cataloged are exquisitely focused on the topic (eg, PDQ, which deals exclusively with cancer treatment—related matters), while others are very broad (eg, BIOSIS Previews, which contains 6 000 000 electronic records on a myriad of topics).Medical librarians with electronic search skills, on-line enthusiasts not fully satisfied to use
SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1989.03420060142058
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1989.03420060142058
ER  -