Dear Dr Malpani, I am Naina Pandita, working at the National Informatics Centre, New Delhi (NIC). NIC has been designated as the 17th international MEDLARS Centre providing information to doctors from the MEDLARS databases from 1986. I wonder if you have heard about our services. If you need more details, then pl let me know and I can mail our brochure and other material to you. We are also training doctors in Information Retrieval techniques for searching MEDLINE database. The MEDLINE database (1980-95) is available on minicomputers at NIC and can be searched by medical institutions over NICNET (NIC's satellite based computer communciation network) 24 hrs a day all thru the year. My postal address is : Mrs Naina Pandita Joint Director, Indian MEDLARS Centre, National Informatics Centre, A-Block, CGO Complex, New Delhi - 110 003