Article: The Side Effects of Free MEDLINE.

Free access to MEDLINE has caught the attention of professional searchers. What are the pros and cons of cost-free online database implementations on the Internet? How sensible is it to use the savings potential of free MEDLINE? Do you sacrifice quality when you're not paying for the database? From a fee versus free perspective, MEDLINE is unique because one of the traditional online hosts, DIMDI (http://www.dimdi.de), offers a separate free MEDLINE implementation for users without contract or password. We don't find a similar offer on DataStar, Dialog, LEXIS-NEXIS, Ovid, or STN.

For several years, the contents of the MEDLINE database have been offered free of ...

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