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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 11:55:30 +0800
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- From: wais server operator <waisguy@SOLOMON.TECHNET.SG>
- Subject: Re: hospitals using Internet
- In-Reply-To: <9212291916.AA21448@solomon.technet.sg> from "KATHY MILLER" at
- Dec 29, 92 01:32:04 pm
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- I am a Biocomputing Co-ordinator for our university's Biocomputing Interest
- Group and I work in the Medical Faculty (Biochem Dept).
-
- Kathy Miller writes:
- >
- > Hospital libraries in our area are interested in NREN/Internet, but uncertain
- > what use can be made of it...other than E-mail.
-
- We have gotten INTERNET access for more than a year now, and we have
- created menu systems to help our users access the wide range of network
- information and other resources.
- Besides email, these include (mostly free!)
-
- Newsreaders - for reading USENET network newsgroups - more than 1000
- eg. rn nn covering nearly anything you can think of (although
- elm pine I would like to see more medically/professionally oriented
- bulletin boards/discussion groups.)
- HYTELNET - access to nearly all US, Canada, Pacific, Europe
- on-line library catalogs
- WAIS - wide area information servers
- (hundreds of databases and thousands of documents indexed for
- rapid retrieval over the network.)
- Of interest to doctors and nurses in particular might be
- Victor McKusick's online mendelian inheritance in man OMIM database.
- Other biological/medical type of databases include mainly
- molecular biology/biochemical databases.
- Clients and servers are now available to virtually all common
- platforms - Mac PC most unix flavours, vms, etc.
-
- GOPHER- network information file retrieval system
- which is now compatible with WAIS, thus providing a very
- user-friendly interface. Again clients and servers are available
- to many platforms.
- The range of information available is incredible.
-
- Kathy also writes...
- >
- > We are looking for practical uses...databases accessed, full-text available,
- > whatever...for hospital libraries or other healthcare libraries. Since most
- of
- > our institutions are small (the one-person library type), applications of
- > Internet use that relate to that environment would be most useful.
-
- We are currently working on integrating as many of these databases etc
- on one menu system. Where databases are not available on the network,
- we will set up the WAIS and GOPHER servers for these databases.
- We have permission from the National Library of Medicine
- to set up (1000 a month) medline entries on WAIS on an experimental basis.
- We hope we will be able to demonstrate sufficient usefulness for
- a larger range of medline entries, but in this case, I doubt if
- it will become a free service.
-
- So the possibilities for being an information user and an information
- provider are legion if you get onto INTERNET. Do it! and do it soon
- or be swept aside by the waves of technological progress :-)
-
- Tin-Wee TAN.
-
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- WAIS operator waisguy@solomon.technet.sg
- Dr Tan Tin Wee, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine.
- National University of Singapore.
- Tel 772-3678 Fax 7791453 INTERNET bchtantw@nuscc.nus.sg
-