In use since 1983, it is the longest lived, most comprehensive computer-assisted diagnostic tool. It also functions as an online textbook, when searched by diagnosis , providing easy access to the veterinary literature. It is a non-profit service supported by the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine. Both searches will provide a very current disease summary with citations to articles.
New information is added weekly, filtered for quality and clinical importance.
Cited articles give good overviews of treatments and are chosen with practitioners in mind. Copies of articles cited that are not in the practice collection can be obtained by contacting a veterinary library or commercial vendor . During fall 2000, the conversion to the new PubMed made it impossible for a specific search to be run automatically. It is no longer automatic. Searching PubMed is not hard.