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- Title
Drowning or Thirsting: The Extremes of Availability of Medical Information.
- Authors
Editors, The <em>PLoS Medicine</em>
- Abstract
The authors' focuses on the difficulties involved in extracting the medical information that are published on paper and on the Web. The authors' comment on MEDLINE/PubMed, the National Library of Medicine's electronic database is presented. The free availability of some portion of indexed papers as full text from PubMedCentral or journal's own website is the drawback for medical professionals in accessing the information.
- Subjects
MEDICAL publishing; MEDICAL databases; INFORMATION storage &; retrieval systems; MEDLINE; LIBRARY automation; MEDICAL research personnel
- Publication
PLoS Medicine, 2006, Vol 3, Issue 3, pe165
- ISSN
1549-1277
- Publication type
Editorial
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pmed.0030165