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Al Gore, the Internet and the National Library of Medicine

July 2, 2020 Circulating Now

By Michael Kronenfeld and Jennie J. Kronenfeld ~ Since the late 1990, Al Gore has been ridiculed for supposedly claiming to have invented the Internet. 

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Grateful Med: Personal Computing and User-Friendly Design

April 28, 2016 Circulating Now

By Nicole Contaxis Grateful Med was an NLM-developed software program that was intended to expand and ease access to the NLM databases, including MEDLINE. Supported

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MEDLARS II: MEDLINE & Instantaneous Search

March 30, 2016 Circulating Now

By Nicole Contaxis MEDLARS I, as described in my previous post, was a great step forward in providing access to bibliographic data and facilitating biomedical

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MEDLARS I & GRACE: The Early Mainframe Experience

February 25, 2016 Circulating Now

By Nicole Contaxis Providing access to bibliographic data has long been a part of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) mission. Through a variety of

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