Andrew Saul of Doctoryourself.com asks, Can you join our emails-for-JOM campaig

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Mon, 30 Jan 2006 16:41:06 +0100

 

From... " Andrew W. Saul " <drsaul

 

 

Dear ....,

 

Can you join our emails-for-JOM campaign?

 

Best wishes,

 

A.

 

 

It is time to take action to make all nutritional research, not just

some of it, accessible to the public.

 

I ask you to please join me in an email campaign to Mr. Sheldon

Kotzin, Executive Editor of the U. S. National Library of Medicine's

MEDLINE.

 

Medline is the world's largest index for all health-related scientific

research. It appears to have a bias against high-dose vitamin

nutritional medical journals.

 

Many of my readers have already written to Medline and received

useless pat-on-the-head answers from low-level government contractors.

 

Now, after reading all my readers' emails, I would like you to please

write to the top man. Executive Editor of Medline Mr. Sheldon Kotzin's

personal email address is

kotzins @ mail.nlm.nih.gov .

 

Please send him a polite email requesting that he please include the

Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine in the MEDLINE electronic database

and index.

 

In addition to referring to what I wrote above, here are some talking

points you can use in your letter:

 

*The Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine has been published for 38

consecutive years.

 

* It has an editorial review board of physicians and university

researchers.

 

* The Journal has published papers by prominent scientists, including

twice Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling.

 

* MEDLINE's electronic indexing makes health information readily

accessible to libraries and to the public over the Internet.

 

* Medline indexes over 4,800 journals, and has funds to reach all the

way back to 1951.

 

*Why, exactly, is the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine excluded from

MEDLINE? It is not enough to say that JOM is excluded because a review

committee said so in secret.

 

* Why are not the taxpayers' views, requests and input considered?

MEDLINE is paid for by the taxpayers (operated by the NLM, part of the

National Institutes of Health).

 

*Courteously ask Mr. Kotzin for action, and ask for a response.

 

* Do not accept a form letter response from an assistant, or from a

secretary, or from a contractor. You pay Mr. Kotzin's salary. Let him

answer you personally.

 

Again, his personal email is kotzins @ mail.nlm.nih.gov

 

Then, I would very much appreciate it if you'd send me a copy of Mr.

Kotzin's replies. My email is drsaul .

 

(For more talking points and background facts, please look at

http://www.doctoryourself.com/medline.html )

 

Thank you for your willingness to make a difference!

 

Best wishes,

 

A. Saul

 

(Doctoryourself.com)