Textbook Extended on CD

Abstract

s, the Clinical Medicine C D is not intended for providing a complete medical thesaurus or complete Current Awareness series, but for enabling readers to get further information on certain topics in the textbook from the added material. Therefore, neither the complete EMTREE nor the whole Current Awareness series are necessary for the CD. Only those partswhich are related to certain topics appearing in the textbook need to be included. The starting point in the selection of related material from EMTREE and the Current Awareness series was the Index of Clinical Medicine. The fist step to find the related material was to put both the textbook index and EMTREE online. With the online index and EMTREE, one could use the computer to find the terms which co-exist in both