Imperial College has taken out a subscription to a new version of Medline, accessible over the Internet from NISS using an OVID interface. The service includes links to the full text of about 60 core journals such as the Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, Science and Nature. We shall be advertising the service as soon as it becomes available and asking you for your comments. This is a major database of Internet resources, containing approximately 70,000 records of WWW sites, Usenet Newsgroups, Listserv mailing lists and anonymous FTP sites.
Access is restricted to members of the higher education community.
Please contact the library for a username and password. If you have a BIDS password, you can use this to access NetFirst. The new list is put out each afternoon and the old one is discarded. The Central Library at South Kensington has set up a library mailing list available to all staff and students of Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine, which will provide news and information on new databases and electronic journals acquired by the library. It will also keep you informed of CD-ROM server downtime, relevant new software updates etc.