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Re: online article: New Merck site provides a vast array of information
- To: "Abbott, Bruce" <babbot@lsuhsc.edu>
- Subject: Re: online article: New Merck site provides a vast array of information
- From: Shirley Ainsworth <shirley@ibt.unam.mx>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 19:46:02 EST
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Thanks for the info. Pity Mexico neither qualifies for this new Merck site (you have to be a US Resident) nor for the WHO free medical journals for developing economies initiative (not poor enough ;-) We're really stuck in the middle here, in more ways than one! Shirley Ainsworth Bibliotecaria/Librarian Instituto de Biotecnologia-UNAM email shirley@ibt.unam.mx fax (52) 777 3172388 tel (52) 55 5622-7603 http://www.ibt.unam.mx/biblioteca On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Abbott, Bruce wrote: > The link below from American Medical News provides a review of > MerckMedicus. [American Medical News is freely accessible to all]. > > MerckMedicus offers subsidized (free) access to health professionals for > the following resources: > > "Praxis.MD (a point-of-care reference for primary care providers), DXplain > (a differential diagnosis tool), national treatment guidelines, the Merck > Manual, Cecil Textbook of Medicine, Dorland's Medical Dictionary, > Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine and MD Consult". > > This brings up a question: Does this model of providing free access to > expensive resources (in this case, subsidized by an international > pharmaceutical concern) exist in areas outside healthcare? > > http://www.ama-assn.org/sci-pubs/amnews/pick_02/teca0128.htm > > Bruce Abbott > Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Library > 433 Bolivar St. > New Orleans, LA 70112 > > 504-568-7718 (fax) > 504-568-6103 (voice) > babbot@lsuhsc.edu
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