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Internet or electronic sources of information can be tricky to document and include in footnotes or citations if they... 

The author collected available publications by means of Internet-based research at Medline, Current Contents and CiteSeer to produce a broad overview in the field of clinical applications of computer-aided diagnosis in the breast. The literature cited was chosen in order to give the reader the most convenient access to further details of the work of the related author or group. Printed publications (journal articles or books) have been preferred. Conference proceedings or electronic sources were chosen for citation when no printed publication was available. The list... 

One of the greatest challenges feeing communication in the age of the Internet is the educated assessment and consumption of the vast array of information available to receivers at all levels. The need for courses and instruction in critical thinking, always important, has risen exponentially as various electronic sources of information have proliferated—especially when those sources are not well understood, their authoritativeness is open to question, and their existence is ephemeral. 

To access electronic sources, you must be connected to the Internet this means you must select an Internet provider. This provider may be your local or long-distance phone company, your cable television, or it may be commercial services such as AOL, YAHOO, etc. (just to name a few). It goes without saying that you will need a computer with a reasonably fast modem (the faster the better), a telephone line, and some software such as Microsoft Explorer or Netscape Navigator (your Internet provider usually provides this), which allows you to browse the Internet... 

This chapter has only scratched the surface of the multitude of databases and data reviews that are now available. For instance, more than 100 materials databases of many kinds are listed by Wawrousek et al. (1989), in an article published by one of the major repositories of such databases. More and more of them are accessible via the internet. The most comprehensive recent overview of Electronic access to factual materials information the state of the art is by Westbrook et al. (1995), This highly informative essay includes a taxonomy of materials information , focusing on the many different property considerations and property types which an investigator can be concerned with. Special attention is paid to mechanical properties. The authors focus also on the quality and relutbility of data, quality of source, reproducibility, evaluation status, etc., all come into this, and alarmingly. 

In the case of European legislation there is a published information source that contains many of the relevant documents. This is the hard copy or electronic version of the multiple volumes of The Rules Governing Medicinal Products in the European Union. The most convenient way to obtain these documents—which will eventually consist of nine volumes, some of which will have several parts—is via the internet. The available volumes can be found by way of the following web address http //dg3.eudra.org/eudralex/index.htm. The volumes relevant for human medicinal products are ... 

We recognize the expanding role of the Internet in electronic recordkeeping in the context of part 11. Vital records, such as clinical data reports or batch release approvals, can be transmitted from source to destination computing systems by way of the Internet ... 

The Internet can nonetheless be a trustworthy and reliable communications pipeline for electronic records when there are measures in place to ensure the accurate, complete, and timely transfer of data and records from source to destination computing systems ... 

In healthcare, we are today at a crossroads of yet, another of many notable technical developments. Personal computers have become ubiquitous and easier to use for healthcare professionals and patients. The newly available mobile or handheld devices have become more practical for real-time computing. Through the Internet or hand-eld device, there is ready access to a patient s medical information. With these tools, the art of practicing medicine is truly about to change. An electronic information resource for the Internet and for handheld devices, as for other platforms, requires that the data meet specific standards of reliability. First DataBank information is tried and true, a tested, authoritative source of such information. 

Recent reviews on alkali metal beam studies, theoretical and experimental determinations of electron affinities using photon methods, and atomic electron affinities and an Internet source for electron affinities all give compilations [113-117]. The evaluation of molecular electron affinities is a major objective of this book. 

Much valuable information may be obtained by the use of the electronic information sources. For example, company annual reports, as well as lOK and lOQ reports containing a wealth of business and financial information of companies, may be retrieved on the Internet from www.investquest.com. As an alternative, the search engine AltaVista (www.altavista.digital.com) can be used to obtain similar information or to augment not only financial but also product information. Company information may be obtained by accessing a company s... 

Online Sources. In addition to the information provided in the previous examples (author, title, publication source, page numbers), these citations require the medium (online), the computer network (e.g., Internet), date, and electronic address (the URL). 

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