MEDLINE: A Guide to Effective Searching

MEDLINE: A Guide to Effective Searching . Edited by Katcher BS (Pp147; $29.00) US: Ashbury Press, 1999. ISBN 0 9673445 0 6. Many specialist registrars embarking on a period of research are faced with the task of writing grant proposals requiring a comprehensive understanding of a subject, but often begin from a point of relative ignorance. The first port of call for many will be to delve into MEDLINE, a vast bibliographic database indexing over 4000 journals. Now freely accessible through the internet, MEDLINE can be used to search for subject …