Overview
MedCite offers an exciting new family of services to medical authors, editors and publishers.

With CiteVerify, you can make citation verification a chore of the past. Simply paste a bibliography into a Web browser page, send to MedCite, and receive proofed citations back in seconds or minutes.

If you're a publisher of electronic content on the Internet, CiteLink lets you incorporate direct links to MEDLINE® abstracts into your online bibliographies. After verification, the returned proofed citation incorporates a link to the corresponding MEDLINE record and abstract.

Citation Verification
CiteVerify provides online validation of medical journal article citations. Paste a citation or even a complete bibliography into a Web browser page, submit for validation, and within seconds or minutes, receive back a Web browser report confirming verified citations. Ambiguous citations are often returned with one or more possible matching citations. Verification is performed almost instantaneously at the MedCite search server. Aries' Knowledge Finder ® fuzzy logic search technology matches each citation against the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE database. This database, covering 1966 to the present, currently indexes more than 3,800 journals in biomedicine, medicine and healthcare. CiteVerify can reduce your citation verification workload by up to 50% or more, saving you time and money, and improving the quality of your publication.

Abstract Linking
CiteLink offers on-line Internet medical publishers the opportunity to dynamically link published bibliographies to MEDLINE records and abstracts. By providing these links to their clients, publishers can increase substantially the value of their original published content. Bibliographies of electronically published medical journals, textbooks, newsletters and other intellectual content are first submitted to CiteVerify. In addition to returning verification data, the returned materials include a World Wide Web HTTP link to the corresponding record in the MEDLINE database. When the publisher's content is subsequently viewed by a client, a click on a CiteLink connects to Aries' Knowledge Web server, which then delivers a Web page containing the corresponding MEDLINE record to the client browser. Since the MEDLINE record is maintained on the Knowledge Web server, any errata corrections published by the National Library of Medicine are automatically included whenever a CiteLink is activated by a client.

Clients may optionally request that the MEDLINE record be saved to their local hard drive, in a format compatible with most personal bibliography managers. The client can also elect to conduct additional database searching (at no cost to the publisher) from the Knowledge Web server.

Equipment Requirements
In order to use CiteVerify, you'll need an Internet connection and a compatible Web browser. Third-party clients using CiteLink connections also need an Internet connection and a compatible Web browser.

Compatible Web browsers include Netscape 2.0/later and Microsoft Internet Explorer 2.0/later.

Costs
CiteVerify is available at a cost of US$1.00 per citation submitted for verification.

CiteLink is available at a cost of US$2.00 per citation submitted for linking. There is no charge for subsequent presentation of linked MEDLINE records to client browsers.

All services are provided on a pre-paid basis, with a minimum in-advance deposit charge of US$250.00. Transactions are subsequently debited against the deposit, and each CiteVerify response indicates the remaining deposit balance.

All CiteVerify matching is performed on a best-efforts basis, and Aries makes no guarantee as to match yields. Use of MEDLINE records and abstracts delivered to clients with CiteLink is subject to provisions of copyright law. The license of such data shall remain strictly between Aries and the enduser client.