One of the changes resulting from the electronic venue is the shift in emphasis from (a) distributing information to (b) making it accessible. Costs are lower, it is easier to keep the information up-to-date (check out the publication dates of books at nursing stations in hospitals!), and it can serve as the basis for a 'knowledgable client'. Here is an example at the medical end, dealing with Cancer. Similar examples can be found at the health promotion, illness prevention end of the spectrum. NOTICE: CANCERNET INFORMATION AVAILABLE ON-LINE - * - * - * - * - * - * - The full US National Cancer Institute CancerNet database is available on the York University Web Site, and by FTP from York University. Instructions are below. It contains approximately 10Meg of: PDQ Treatment Summaries for Health Professionals; PDQ Treatment Summaries for Patients,; PDQ Supportive Care Summaries; PDQ Cancer Screening/Prevention Summaries; PDQ Drug Information Summaries; News Bulletins, Press Releases, and Fact Sheets; Publication Information; and CANCERLIT Citations and Abstracts. PDQ information is reviewed regularly by members of the NCI PDQ Editorial Boards, and many summaries change from one month to the next. Use the following instructions to access the site from your Web Browser or directly by anonymous FTP. The files can also be made available in Spanish. ------ -------------- Sam Lanfranco <[log in to unmask]> local CancerNet SiteManager ------------------------------------------------------------ INSTRUCTIONS: At the http://www.yorku.ca/ web site <hot_link> from INTERNET to FTP, to the YORKU ftp Archive site, to YORK_OTHER, to Distributed_Learning_Project, on to CANCERNET. Read 00INTRO and download the 00README file. To do so in your Web browser, Open the file and use the "Save as.." file option. The Cancernet file names are 6 numbers and can be read and downloaded in the same manner. For FTP ftp to ftp://yorku.ca/pub/yorku_other/ then change directory to Distributed_Learning_Project/CANCERNET and use the get command to download files. The Distributed Knowledge Project <[log in to unmask]> would be interested in your feedback on the availability of the files. # - # - # - #