SurgAnLine

SurgAnLine® on CD-ROM
Literature Reference for Surgery and Anesthesiology

Overview
The SurgAnLine literature reference service offers you easy, economical and rapid access to the biomedical journal literature most frequently used by surgeons and anesthetists.

The literature references are stored on CD-ROM optical data discs. Computer search software designed for Microsoft® Windows^TM and Apple® Macintosh® lets you search these discs easily and quickly.

Each data disc contains journal article references, many with abstracts, selected from the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) MEDLINE® database.

Database Contents
SurgAnLine subscriptions include one or two CD-ROM's:

Volume	I (Archive Database)	II (Optional Update)
Years Covered	1988-1997	1998 (Cumulative Year-to-Date)
Updated	Annually (in March) - incorporates new indexing and publishing errata	Quarterly or Monthly - provides convenient access to most recently published materials
Entries	More than 779,000	Up to 350,000
Contents	All indexed contents from approximately 310 journals with surgery or anesthesia focus or general interest	Complete MEDLINE contents for current year-to-date, from approximately 3,800 journals (includes all titles in Volume I)

In addition to the surgery and anesthesia journals, Volume I selectively covers related topics, including:

Anesthesia
Cardiovascular Surgery
Pediatric Surgery
Plastic Surgery
Surgical Oncology
Thoracic Surgery
Transplantation
Vascular Surgery

Searching Software
Finding the references you want is as easy as just typing the few words that you think best characterize the article. Knowledge Finder's unique fuzzy logic searching uses precise mathematical analysis to judge how closely each database entry appears to match your search query. Search results are presented in order of likely relevance, showing you the closest matches first, and saving you time reviewing search results.

For precise searching, just click a button to activate Knowledge Finder's Boolean Search mode. With the additional Boolean operators, nested parenthesization and truncation, you can fine tune your search to identify the specific article for which you're looking.

The MeSH® subject heading thesaurus helps you identify the correct terminology for searching the database. Article citations (most of which include informative abstracts) are shown rapidly and clearly on the computer screen. With Knowledge Finder, you don't have to take the time to become an expert searcher. In fact, most users discover that they're searching successfully within a few minutes of their first use of Knowledge Finder.

Flexible Subscriptions
SlurgAnLine subscriptions are available for Personal, Institutional and Network use. Each subscription includes a license to use the database disc(s); annual, quarterly, or monthly updates of the current CD-ROM disc; Knowledge Finder software with any updates we deliver during the subscription period; comprehensive documentation; and unlimited telephone support.

Product ID	Years of Coverage	Update Frequency	# of Discs
SAN-10	10 prior years	Annual	1
SAN-11	11 (10 prior + current cumulative year-to-date)	Quarterly	2
SAN-11-M	11 (10 prior + current cumulative year-to-date)	Monthly	2

'Years of Coverage' and '# of Discs' applies to 1998 edition.

Please contact Aries Systems for pricing and ordering of the CD-ROM edition.

Equipment Requirements
Please refer to Aries' Equipment Specifications for complete equipment requirements.

Knowledge Server® and Knowledge Host®, also available from Aries Systems, let you access your Knowledge Finder databases in a network environment. Please contact Aries Systems or your authorized Knowledge Finder dealer for details.

Important Disclaimers!