Let me ask you this :  Have you taken PubMed training from a qualified
trainer?  Are you familiar with all the availabe features?  Did you see
the new enhancements demonstrated at MLA and in prototype now?

If you have, and are still disgrutled, then I can understand.  You are
definitely a high end user, and perhaps use more than Medline.  But I
have found the PubMed search engine a godsend, and enables me to channel
a chunk of change spent on OVID Med 5 ( $1,500 ) to stuff like the
Cochrane Library, and maximizing a small hospital's dollars.

Paul Blobaum, Medical Librarian
Silver Cross Hospital           [log in to unmask]
1200 Maple Road                 http://www.silvercross.org
Joliet, IL  60432

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lee Hover [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 12:38 PM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: Demise of Medlars access?
>
> I think we're all singing to the choir.  I don't think we're averse to
> learning new methods (a la old dogs, etc), but when it ain't broke,
> don't
> fix it--improve it.  However, this is not on NLM's agenda.  They don't
> want
> to be loved, they want to be respected--by every public user out there
> & the
> hell with us.  Do I sound bitter---no-o--o--o, never!!
>
> Yes, I still use Elhill & will till 9/30.  I've been trying to use
> "the
> new", & do use it for quick & dirty which don't require much in the
> way of
> real input, but for the tough & dirty, Elhill still has my vote.  I
> guess
> when it expires I'll go to Dialog for everything other than the quick
> &
> dirty.
>
> Lee Hover
> Director, Scientific Information
> Integrated Communications Corp
> 5 Sylvan Way
> Parsippany, NJ 07054
>
> Phone: 973.451.2373
> FAX: 973.292.9382