Aries Systems Corporation
Knowledge Web®
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Overview

Databases Available

Getting Started

The KW Difference

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Overview
Knowledge Web (KW) from Aries Systems offers you fast, easy and powerful Internet access to the medical journal literature. With popular Web browsers, or with Aries' expert Knowledge Finder® client software, you can access a growing number of popular and comprehensive medical literature reference databases.


Databases Available
The following databases are available with Knowledge Web:

Coverage of the clinical and research medical literature, from 1996 to the present. Contains references from approximately 3,800 journals, most with author abstracts. Updated weekly. Includes Knowledge Update® SDI Rapid Notification Service.
Current awareness coverage of the clinical and research medical literature in about 3,500 journals. 6-momth rolling file of citations (more than 75% contain abstracts). Covers drugs/pharmacology, toxicology, human medicine and related biological sciences, psychiatry, public, occupational and environmental health, health policy/management, substance dependence/abuse, forensic science, and biomedical engineering/instrumentation. Updated weekly. (Institutional subscriptions only.)
Comprehensive collection of citations and abstracts of published cancer literature. Selected from some 3,000 biomedical journals, and from meeting papers, books, reports, and doctoral theses.
Citations (with abstracts if available) to the published literature of Health Services Technology, Administration, and Research. Includes journal articles, monographs, technical reports, meeting abstracts and papers, book chapters, government documents, and newspaper articles from 1975 - present. Updated quarterly.
Covers the nursing and allied health literature from 1980 through the present. Includes some full text. Updated monthly. (Institutional subscriptions only.)

Getting Started

Discover how Knowledge Web can make the medical literature work for you, and take our no-charge, no-obligation test drive. Access MEDLINE free for 30 days, wherever, whenever and as much as you want.

After checking out the Knowledge Web browser interface, be sure to download and install the Knowledge Finder expert software. Explore and experience the power of enhanced literature access with Knowledge Finder, built by information specialists for information users.


The Knowledge Web Difference
Knowledge Web and Knowledge Finder offer you unparalleled features and benefits for access to the medical literature:

  • Fuzzy and Boolean logic searching lets you choose the search technology that best suits your needs. Relevance-ranked results present articles in order of likely interest.
  • Knowledge Web browser interface uses standard Netscape or Microsoft browsers, offering almost instant access to Knowledge Web databases.
  • Expert Knowledge Finder software (for WindowsTM and Macintosh® ) provides extended search-and-presentation functions, including author, journal, thesaurus and other access points; customized display and print formats; export to popular bibliography managers; search strategy and session recall; and many other sophisticated yet easy-use features.
  • Our powerful Knowledge Host ® search servers complete even complex searches in seconds, saving valuable time.
  • Timely updates of our Knowledge Web databases bring you the latest available information.
  • Knowledge Update E-mail SDI notifications of latest topical additions to MEDLINE.
  • Convenient document ordering service, providing you with access to the full-text of almost any article in MEDLINE.
  • Affordable price and flexible subscription plans let you tailor a literature search service that meets your needs (combination subscriptions with CD-ROM are also available upon request).

Subscription Options
Subscriptions are available, as indicated below, for individuals, groups and institutions.

Subscriptions for individuals allow unlimited access by a single individual. You can use both Web browser and expert Knowledge Finder software on multiple computers, in your home, office or lab.
Group subscriptions allows unlimited access by an agreed-upon number of individual users, at a rate substantially lower than single individual subscriptions. Simultaneous access is allowed under the group subscription plan. All users share a single username and password.
Institutional Use subscriptions allow unlimited access, up to the licensed number of simultaneous (or concurrent) users, by any number of individuals who have a bona fide, primary affiliation with the Institution. Institutional Use access is limited to the institution's "closed" user community, and may not be offered for use by the institution to a general user community. All users share a single username and password. IP domain access limits can be established by the institution.

Please contact Aries Systems or your authorized Knowledge Finder dealer for details.


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