Thomas, Gets me thinking: I have a copy of PubMed XML data... in case anybody > needs > it just contact me. > Fortunately the NIH is considered essential, so it is not entirely closed. I have a copy of the baseline data files for MEDLINE/PubMed from this year, but haven't written an importer, and since the database is still available from NIH, I don't think that I will be providing a mirror to it during the shutdown. Regards, Jared -- Jared Camins-Esakov Bibliographer, C & P Bibliography Services, LLC (phone) +1 (917) 727-3445 (e-mail) [log in to unmask] (web) http://www.cpbibliography.com/