Information at the fingertips: a portal for biomedicine

Abstract

It will be organised, even if not explicitly, along the lines of the Library of Congress and the National Library of Medicine classification systems, since this is the way in which documentary material found in biomedical libraries is usually organised. Researchers will therefore find themselves in front of an open-shelved virtual library, where the resources relating to a certain topic are in proximity to those relating to similar topics. Information being looked for often cannot be expressed easily with a query, but requires a path consisting of successive approximations, until the best source of information is identified.