Volume 22, Number 1 (2003)

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    Government Databases, Documents and Web Sites in Health and Medicine
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 2003) Skopelja, Elaine
    Within the last few years, the United States government has initiated a major effort to make government publications available in electronic format. Although there are still print materials produced, the trend for publicly available materials or those designed for mass distribution has been to make electronic copies available for printing or downloading. In some cases, the electronic version is the only version, leading to some concerns about future access to electronic-only materials and the archiving of such documents. In fact, there now exists the possibility that documents may be easily and permanently removed from public access, because of the electronic-version only policy. However, the trend towards having electronic-only versions will likely continue.
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    What's Shaking? Government Information on the Environment and Natural Science
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 2003) Zellmer, Linda R.
    Shortly after noon on June 18, 2002, people in southern Indiana were surprised by a magnitude 5.0 earthquake. While people near the epicenter experienced ground shaking, people further away, noticed little things, such as a wobbling computer monitor and a slight pop of the windows. When a geologist from the Indiana Geological Survey, who was working in the Geology Library, said that it may have been an earthquake, I immediately checked the National Earthquake Information Center’s web site (http://neic.usgs.gov) for information. Before the calls from the press and the public started five minutes later, I had learned that initial reports placed the location of the earthquake in southern Illinois; within 30 minutes the location of the epicenter had been changed to Darmstadt, Indiana. Information on the earthquake is still available on the NEIC web site(http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqinthenews/2002/usfnbk/map.html).