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How many people here work in a library where medicine is a topic of interest, and how many of those are familiar with OpenPHI [1] and/or HealthLibrarian [2] ? OpenPHI is a start-up company who is using open source software to harvest and index open access content for the purposes of creating useful indexes to medical information. For example, they have collected content from MEDLINE, Biomed, and other peer-reviewed sites to create a pretty comprehensive and competitive index called HealthLibrarian. Lots o' content! I'm not sure of all the details, but the folks at OpenPHI are looking for librarians like ourselves (hackers) to integrate HealthLibrarian into their library offerings -- a possible alternative or supplement to the indexes we are already providing. I think they are offering free trials to their index through Web Services interfaces sans the advertising, etc. Being a new company and very open to all things... open, I believe the folks at OpenPHI are open to constructive criticism on how to provide viable library services to... libraries. [1] http://www.openphi.com/ [2] http://www.healthlibrarian.net/ -- Eric Lease Morgan University of Notre Dame