NLM ANNOUNCES: Discontinuation of direct public access to ELHILL

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All direct public access to ELHILL and the TOXNET command/menu system will
cease on September 30, 1999. All DOS, Windows, and Macintosh versions of
Grateful Med will cease functioning as of September 30, 1999 because they
access ELHILL. NLM provides free Web access to all its databases and users
have been encouraged to transition to the Web for more than a year.

ELHILL, NLM's legacy computer retrieval system, which has provided command
language access for a fee for almost 30 (!) years will be closed to the
public permanently. All users will need to use one of NLM's Web-based
search engines, PubMed (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed) or Internet
Grateful Med (http://igm.nlm.nih.gov) for their database searching.

See the NLM Technical Bulletin for details:
	http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma99/ma99_elhill.html

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