AFRO-NETS> Johns Hopkins POPLINE Database Now Available Online

[Stephen Goldstein <Sgoldstein@jhuccp.org>]

Johns Hopkins POPLINE Database Now Available Online
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Looking for the latest information on female genital mutilation? Need 
a journal article on adolescent reproductive health and HIV/AIDS? 
Trying to track down an article on population and the environment? 
The answers to these questions and much more are now just a few mouse 
clicks away on the new Internet POPLINE database. 

POPLINE, the world's largest bibliographic database on population, 
family planning, and related issues, is now available free of charge 
on the Internet. All 280,000 citations, representing published and 
unpublished literature, can be accessed for no charge at:
http://www.popline.org

Maintained by the Johns Hopkins Population Information Program, 
Internet POPLINE is updated every two weeks and offers the only com-
plete, up-to-date Internet location for POPLINE records. 

Approximately 10,000 records are added annually. (POPLINE records are 
no longer available through the U.S. National Library of Medicine's 
IGM or PubMed systems.) 

The new Internet POPLINE's current awareness search allows users to 
save time by easily limiting their searches to the most current en-
tries. Plans are underway to offer "relevance" scores to search re-
sults and a "shopping cart" feature for document delivery is under 
development.

For those in developing countries who may have limited access to the 
Internet, POPLINE will continue to distribute POPLINE on CD-ROM to 
over 950 sites twice a year. For more details about this service go 
to: 
http://www.jhuccp.org/popline/popcd.stm 

POPLINE Digital Services also provides full text documents of many of 
its abstracts in the database at no charge for readers in developing 
countries. Full-text documents are only available if the information 
is not available locally, is not a commercially published book, and 
is less than 100 pages in length. POPLINE sends full-text documents 
as an e-mail attachment in Adobe Acrobat format or by mail. More in-
formation is available at: 
http://www.jhuccp.org/popline/docdel.stm 

or by contacting: 
POPLINE Digital Services
111 Market Place, Suite 310
Baltimore, MD 21202, USA  
Tel: +1-410-659-6300
Fax: +1-410-659-6266
mailto:popline@jhuccp.org 
 
The Population Information Program is funded by the United States 
Agency for International Development (USAID) and the United Nations 
Population Fund (UNFPA). 

For more information, log on to 
http://www.jhuccp.org 
or send an e-mail to 

Anne Compton
Deputy Director
PIP, and Chief
POPLINE Digital Services
mailto:POPLINE@jhuccp.org 
or contact the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs at 
111 Market Place
Suite 310
Baltimore, Maryland 21202, USA

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