ACCESS BY E-MAIL TO THE US NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE DATABASES

[Dr. Carlos Gamboa]

               ACCESSING DATABASES OF THE
     NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE THROUGH ELECTRONIC
                          MAIL
 
                           By
 
                  Dr. Carlos A. Gamboa
           Division of Health and Development
            Pan American Health Organization
                        .........
 
 
BITNIS it is a new mechanism for accessing all databases
of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) in Bethesda,
Maryland. This method involves use of GRATEFUL MED,
BITNET, internet, UUCP, FIDONET, and a software called
SMED.
 
BITNIS was developed by Dr. Andres Stutzin and  Victor
Cid of the University of Chile, in collaboration with
the National Library of Medicine and the Pan American
Health Organization.
 
BITNIS uses GRATEFUL MED (GM) to generate the desired
bibliographic search.  GM is a user-friendly software
program that run on an IBM-XT, AT or other compatible
computer and that permits a user without experience to
do a bibliographic search of the Medical Library
Analysis and Retrieval System (MEDLARS) of the NLM.   
 
GM allows formulation and modification of a search
strategy before sending via BITNET, internet, UUNET,
etc. The search strategy is formatted by SMED and then
that "file" is sending by electronic mail through any
network to NLM internet node. The BITNIS gateway
captures the message and converts it for processing by
the NLM computer.  The results of the search then are
returned by the NLM computer to the gateway where the
file is converted for transmission via computer network
to the recipient's PC.  
 
BITNIS is available to the scientific and academic
community on credit accounts bases.
 
 
                      Requirements
 
1.    IBM PC (XT, AT) compatible.
2.    Access to BITNET, internet, UUNET, econet,
      peacenet, etc.
3.    Grateful Med version 6.0 + Smed 4.01
4.    Subscribe to BITNIS through BIREME (Latin American
      and Caribbean Center for Health Sciences Information
      Center.) or to your BITNIS Center listed below.
 
 
   Latin America BITNIS Centers (until september 1993)
 
ARGENTINA
Fundacion de Informatica Medica
Armenia 1538/40
C.P. 1414 CAP.
Buenos Aires Argentina
Contact: Dra. Nora Oliveri
Phone: 71-7997/1764
Fax:   71/7997
E-Mail: fim at pccp.org.ar
 
BRAZIL
BIREME
Rua Botucatu 862
Vila Clementino
04034 Sao Paulo, SP
Contact:  Ing. Adalberto Tardelli
Phone:    549-2611
Fax:      571-1919
E-mail:   aot at brm001.bireme.ansp.br
 
 
CHILE
Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia. (CONICYT)
Departamento de Informacion.
Canada 308
Santiago, CHILE.
Contact: Ing. Alberto Cabezas
Phone: (562) 274-4537
Fax:   (562) 209-6729
E-Mail: acabezas at daniel.conicyt.cl
 
 
COSTA RICA
Biblioteca Nacional de Salud y Seguridad Social
Apartado 10.105
San Jose Costa Rica
Contact: Ms. Virginia Siles
Phone:    (506) 216-193
Fax:      (506) 338-359
E-mail:   VSILES at UCRVM2.BITNET
 
MEXICO
Centro Nacional de Informacion en Ciencias de la Salud
(CENIDS)
Insurgentes Sur 1397, 2 piso
Mexico DF
Contact:  Dr. Armando Vieyra
Phone:    563-0385
Fax:      598-2178
E-mail:   vieyra at redvax1.dgsca.unam.me
 
 
          
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|    Dr. Carlos A. Gamboa                     |
|    Regional Advisor                         |
|    Division of Health and Development       |
|    Pan American Health Organization         |
|    525 Twenty-Third Street  N.W             |
|    Washington, DC   20037                   |
|    U S A                                    |
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|    voice:    (202) 861-3212                 |
|    Fax:      (202) 861-8875                 |
|              (202) 223-5971                 |
|    Internet: gamboa at nlm.nih.gov             |
|              gamboaca at paho.org              |
|    bitnet:   sua at nihcu                      |
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