Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!INDYVAX!IZIE100 From: IZIE100@INDYVAX.BITNET (James Jay Morgan) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.pacs-l Subject: Re: Locally-Mounted Databases Message-ID: Date: 18 Jan 90 13:55:04 GMT Sender: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum Lines: 30 Approved: NETNEWS@PSUVM Gateway X-VMS-To: IN%"PACS-L@UHUPVM1.BITNET" Approved-By: PACS Forum ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- In the medical community a lot of libraries have mounted data bases using the MUMPS programming language. MUMPS incorporates a lot of data management commands and thus has some of the attributes of a dbms. Public domain & shareware versions are available for various machines, and I understand IBM has developed a mainframe version. Most of the library applications use Minicomputer versions. The leader in the field has been Georgetown University which sells application programs for mounting medline, and more recently, ISI's Current Contents. Washington U. of St. Louis has a competing system. Most of these applications have been described in the medical and library literature; "mini-medline" is a useful keyword, and is the trademark of the Georgetown system. A sample citation is Broering, N.C., R.H. Larson, and H.E. Bagdoyan, "An Enhanced miniMedline System: Abstracts, More Journals, and CD-ROM", Serials Review, Summer & Fall 1986, pp.33-39. More recently Johns Hopkins has used MIIS, a dialect of MUMPS specific to Data General minis, to create the NLM TOXNET search software. They, with the University of Maryland have used this same software to mount Current Contents and Medline subsets. Further information about MUMPS may be had from the Mumps User Group. MUG has a newsletter, quarterly, and various shareware MUMPS programs available. MUMPS Users Group 4321 Hartwick Road, Suite 100 College Park MD 20740 (301) 779-6555, or FAX (301) 779-7674. Jim Morgan INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE LIBRARY