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PubMed2003

Distribution of medical research articles on the World Wide Web.

Ninety-eight percent of 51 polled medical editors felt that published research articles should be available to the public on the World Wide Web at no charge, after a mean time from publication of 1.4 years for viewing and 1.9 years for printing. Public libraries or other government institutions could be allowed to assume the responsibility of housing and distributing the electronically stored archived material, analogous to their role with printed material, lifting the financial burden from the publishing companies.

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PubMed2002

World Wide Web-based temporal bone anatomic sections.

The study goal was to post a complete set of temporal bone anatomy slides on the World Wide Web for anatomic study. Magnification of the width of the sections varied from 2.4 to 33.6 inches. Good representation of gross and tissue anatomy was obtained, but cellular detail was lacking. The website used approximately 37 megs of disk space. The resultant website provides a cost-effective method of presenting large color photographs of temporal bone anatomy. Thumbnails allow comparison between sections, which aids in learning 3-dimensional anatomy. A method for measuring distance on digitized images is also described. The sections may be viewed at www.ear-anatomy.com, and continuing medical education credits may be earned at www.cme-usa.org.

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