Many have asked why the Uni­versity of Southern Califor­nia (USC) invested $28 mil­lion in a library when institu­tions such as California State University-Monterey Bay decided that a library is unnecessary. The answer is that, from the earliest plann . . .

This study examined methods of accessing (for indexing and retrieval purposes) medical research on population groups in the major abstracting and indexing services of the health sciences literature.

Shibboleth is a project of the National Science Foundation Internet2 Middleware Initiative. Its aim is to develop an open, standards-based solution to the needs for organizations to exchange information about their users in a secure, and privacy-prese . . .

The increase in the number and variety of ethnic populations in the United States and the concerns about their health have lead to an expansion of demand for research on those populations in medicine and other fields such as public health and social w . . .