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D -- SUBSRCRIPTION SERVICES SOL 7TF-99-0008 DUE 012199 POC Patricia G. Renfro, Contracting Officer (817) 978-0039, Frank Becker, Technical point of contact (301) 319-1229 REQUIREMENTS FOR ELECTRONIC JOURNAL SERVICE: 1. The subscription service must provide users with the ability to retrieve, view and print the full text articles, including all tables, graphs, pictures and diagrams, for the following key medical and nursing journals. Full text coverage must be provided at a minimum from 1995 to the present. Advances in Nursing Science, American Journal of Cardiology, American Journal of Infection Control, American Journal of Medicine, American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, American Journal of Psychiatry, American Journal of Public Health, American Journal of Surgery, Anesthesia & Analgesia, Anesthesiology, Annals of Internal Medicine, Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, AORN Journal, Archives of Dermatology, Archives of Diseases in Childhood, Archives of Family Medicine, Archives of General Psychiatry, Archives of Internal Medicine, Archives of Neurology, Archives of Ophthalmology, Archives of Otolaryngology, Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine,Archives of Surgery, Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology, British Journal of Hematology, British Journal of Surgery, British Medical Journal, Canadian Medical Association Journal, Chest, Circulation, Circulation Research, Critical Care Medicine, Dermatology Nursing, Diabetes, Diabetes Care, Fertility and Sterility, Genitourinary Medicine, Gut, Heart (British Heart Journal), Heart and Lung, Hypertension, Image: Journal of Nursing Scholarship, JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, Journal of Advanced Nursing, Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery, British Volume, Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, American Volume, Journal of Clinical Investigation, Journal of Clinical Nursing, Journal of Clinical Pathology (with Clinical Molecular Pathology), Journal of Emergency Nursing, Journal of Medical Genetics, Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, Journal of Pediatrics, Journal of the American Board of Family Practice, Journal of the American Society of Health System Pharmacists, Journal of Trauma, Journal of Urology, Lancet, Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Medicine, Nature, New England Journal of Medicine, Nurse Researcher, Nursing and Health Care, Nursing Management (RCN Publishing), Nursing Standard, Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Pediatrics, QJM: Monthly Journal of the Association of Physicians, RN Science, Stroke, Thorax. 2. The subscription services must provide users with the ability to retrieve, view and print citations and full text articles from the following databases: Cochrane Database of Systematic Review, American College of Physicians (ACP) Journal Club, Evidence-Based Medicine (published by the ACP and British Medical Journal Group) 3. The subscription service must support unlimited usage (no additional charges beyond the basic annual subscription cost) by Navy medical/dental staff from all ships, as well as from the following shore-based activities: Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Washington, DC, Naval Ambulatory Care Center, Groton, CT, Naval Ambulatory Care Center, Kings Bay, GA, Naval Ambulatory Care Center, New Orleans, LA, Naval Ambulatory Care Center, Newport, RI, Naval Ambulatory Care Center, Portsmouth, NH, Naval Branch Medical Clinic, Atsugi, Japan, Naval Branch Medical Clinic, Bangor, WA, Naval Branch Medical Clinic, Brunswick, ME, Naval Branch Medical Clinic, Colts Neck, NJ, Naval Branch Medical Clinic, El Toro, CA, Naval Branch Medical Clinic, Everett, WA, Naval Branch Medical Clinic, Key West, FL, Naval Branch Medical Clinic, Little Creek, VA, Naval Branch Medical Clinic, Marine Corps Reserve Depot, San Diego, CA, Naval Branch Medical Clinic, Mayport, FL, Naval Branch Medical Clinic, Meridian, MS, Naval Branch Medical Clinic, Millington, TN, Naval Branch Medical Clinic, Naval Shipyard, Norfolk, VA, Naval Branch Medical Clinic, Naval Station, San Diego, CA, Naval Branch Medical Clinic, Naval Training Center, San Diego, CA, Naval Branch Medical Clinic, North Island, CA, Naval Branch Medical Clinic, Oceana, VA, Naval Branch Medical Clinic, Pascagoula, MS, Naval Branch Medical Clinic, Sasebo, Japan, Naval Branch Medical Clinic, Sewells Point, VA, Naval Branch Medical Clinic, Willow Grove, PA, Naval Branch Medical Clinic, Yuma, AZ, Naval Hospital, Beaufort, SC, Naval Hospital, Bremerton, WA, Naval Hospital, Camp Lejeune, NC, Naval Hospital, Camp Pendleton, CA, Naval Hospital, Charleston, SC, Naval Hospital, Cherry Point, NC, Naval Hospital, Corpus Christi, TX, Naval Hospital, Great Lakes, IL, Naval Hospital, Guam, Mariana Islands, Naval Hospital, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Naval Hospital, Jacksonville, FL, Naval Hospital, Keflavik, Iceland, Naval Hospital, Lemoore, CA, Naval Hospital, Naples, Italy, Naval Hospital, Oak Harbor, WA, Naval Hospital, Okinawa, Japan, Naval Hospital, Patuxent River, MD, Naval Hospital, Pensacola, FL, Naval Hospital, Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico, Naval Hospital, Rota, Spain, Naval Hospital, Sigonella, Italy, Naval Hospital, Twentynine Palms, CA, Naval Hospital, Yokosuka, Japan, Naval Medical Clinic, Annapolis, MD, Naval Medical Clinic, London, England, Naval Medical Clinic, Pearl Harbor, HI, Naval Medical Clinic, Port Hueneme, CA, Naval Medical Clinic, Quantico, VA, Naval Medical Research Unit 2, Jakarta, Indonesia, Naval Operational Medicine Institute, Pensacola, FL. 4. The subscription service include the capability to establish two "user pools" for users who are connecting to the service. One pool must support up to 8 simultaneous user sessions, and the second user pool must support up to 12 simultaneous user sessions. Activities participating in the subscription will each be assigned to one of the user pools. 5. The system must provide the capability for a single access account to be assigned to each participating activity. This account must support multiple simultaneous user sessions, up to the maximum number of simultaneous user sessions (8 or 12) which are supported by the user pool to which the activity is assigned. Sessions within each pool should be allocated on a "first come, first serve" basis. 6. The subscription service must include the capability for the user to search and retrieve biomedical literature citations and abstracts from the MEDLINE database which is maintained by the National Library of Medicine. The MEDLINE searching capability must cover the time period from 1966 to the present. Full MEDLINE searching must be available for this period which is not limited to only the journals for which full text articles are available. 7. The subscription service must include the capability for users to link directly from citations identified using the MEDLINE search capability to the pertinent full text articles for the journals which are included in the subscription. This linking capability must be provided for the full time frame for which full text articles are available for each journal (minimum 1995 to present). 8. The subscription service must include a capability which allows users to link directly from MEDLINE citations and full text journal articles to related articles in the CochraneDatabase of Systematic Reviews as well as the ACP Journal Club and Evidence-Based Medicine databases. The capability must also be provided for users to retrieve a specific full text article from a covered journal or database without using the MEDLINE search feature. 9. The subscription service must include the capability for the user to view or print full text articles from covered journals, as well as the capability to send copies of full text articles to other users via electronic mail. 10. The subscription service must allow users to obtain access via any of the following interfaces: a. VT100 TELNET session. b. Web browser (Netscape 2.0 or greater and Internet Explorer 3.0 or greater). 11. To minimize support requirements, the subscription service must allow users with Web browsers to view and print full text articles, including tables, graphs, pictures and diagrams that are part of the article, without requiring the installation or use of a supplemental viewing/printing program (e.g., Adobe Acrobat Reader). 12. The subscription service must include the capability for the account administrator to obtain weekly usage statistics showing total logins by account and total connection time by account. Period of performance is 2/1/99-12/31/99. Posted 01/12/99 (W-SN287209). (0012)

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