Pubdate: Fri, 15 Oct 1999
Source: DrugSense Weekly #119
Section: Hot Off The 'Net
Website: http://www.drugsense.org/current.html
Author: Mark Greer, Executive Director, DrugSense

NEW DRUGNEWS ARCHIVE SEARCH CAPABILITIES

Matt Elrod has once again worked his magic on the news archive.  The entire
archive has been put into a relational database.

You can now search by author, title, source, area, and date range and sort
your results three ways from Sunday. 

You can view your results in three different levels of detail including
excerpts.  From each article you can see more from the same author, source
and area. 

You now have the ability to filter out LTEs, hone in on opinion pieces or
news articles, include or exclude specific areas.

We will be providing a bit of explanatory documentation and links for those
unfamiliar with database capabilities but Matt has, as usual, made an
incredibly complex search capability quite intuitive and simple for even
beginning users. 

Matt welcomes comments on the new archive at: He has already made many refinements based on user feedback and has more
improvements on his "to do" list. 
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