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Thanks, Eric. I hadn't heard of these. We'll check it out. Another interesting one is Mednar (who named this thing?) - a medical open access federated search engine launched by fed search veterans Deep Web. http://mednar.com/mednar/ Jason -- >>> On 7/9/2009 at 6:18 PM, in message <[log in to unmask]>, Eric Lease Morgan <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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/