The National Library of Medicine (NLM) (first reviewed in the July 18, 1997 Scout Report) in 2000 added the adam.com medical encyclopedia to its popular consumer health resource MEDLINEplus. Accessed via the above URL or from the Medical Encyclopedia tab at the main MEDLINE site, the encyclopedia contains over 4,000 articles and medical images organized in eight topical sections: Disease, Injury,...

The American Academy of Pediatrics is now offering an online extension of its monthly peer-reviewed print journal Pediatrics. Access is free until July 1997, at which time it will remain free to subscribers of the print edition. AAP promises to provide 6-10 exclusive research articles every month at the site. Articles are available in both HTML and Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) formats. In addition,...

The US National Library of Medicine has made its searchable MEDLINE database freely available to all Americans. This site provides searchable access to over 8.5 million MEDLINE and PreMEDLINE citations. Users can also search molecular biology databases from the National Center for Biotechnology Information's Entrez system. Entrez, integrates information from a number of databases (nucleotide...