INTHE AURA OF EXCITEMENT which surrounds the MARC AMC format today, it is sometimes difficult to remember that little more than five years ago automation of almost any sort represented terra incognita for most archivists. The bibliographic utilities, developed by the library community to take advantage of the cost efficiencies inherent in shared cataloging, did not encourage archival participat...

Background: Pulmonary Embolism (PE) is a life-threatening condition with annual incidence ranging from 39 to 115 cases per 100,000 population [1]. Along many other causes, neoplasia one of the highest risk factors for pancreatic, lung, gastric, cerebral and haematological cancer [2]. Patients often have venous thromboembolism (VTE) during course disease, but occasionally diagnosed as secondary ...

D a t a s o u r c e s Studies were identified by searching MEDLINE, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, EMBASE/Excerpta Medica, Web of Science, National Library of Medicine Gateway, Cardiosource, the Clinical Trials Registry, Clinicaltrials.gov, CRISP, the National Research Register, the GlaxoWellcome Clinical Trials Register, LILACS, OCLC ProceedingsFirst, and the National Heal...

database such as OCLC WorldCat, has increased librarians’ efficiency by eliminating duplication of effort. One library creates a bibliographic record for an item such as a book and many other libraries can copy or migrate the data into their local online catalogs, thus saving each individual library the work of cataloging the item and entering the data into the system. However, the ability to c...