POPLINE provides comprehensive coverage on population, family planning, and related health issues. Over 260,000 abstracts with citations are drawn from published and unpublished sources all over the world.

POPLINE on CD-ROM can help you:

Easy-to-learn software
POPLINE on CD-ROM (1827-present) features NISC's easy-to-use and powerful search-and- retrieval software, ROMWright^™. Minimal training is required.

Sources
Publication sources include the U.S. Government, international agencies, family-planning organizations, and databases on sociology, clinical medicine, and health. Publication types include government reports, books, journals, monographs, technical reports, laws, court decisions, theses, dissertations, conference papers, unpublished reports, newspaper articles, and training manuals.

Keyword Guide
The current, revised User's Guide to POPLINE Keywords helps make your searches faster and more thorough. It is available from the Population Information Program (US$50.00).

Document Delivery Service
You can request full-text copies of most of the documents cited in POPLINE. Documents under 100 pages that are not available in your local library and are not commercially published books can be obtained from the Population Information Program. ($10.00/document 10 cents per page).

Organizations in developing countries (see list below) that have a need for population and family planning information are invited to apply for a free POPLINE CD-ROM subscription.

Please Write:

POPLINE CD-ROM
Center for Communication Programs
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
111 Market Place, Suite 310
Baltimore, Maryland 21202-4024 USA

email: popline@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu

Delivering POPLINE documents to developing countries

The full text of documents cited in POPLINE can now be sent to you via the Internet.  You will need an Internet e-mail account which can receive large file attachments, and the Adobe Acrobat Reader software to view and print the documents we send.

The documents will be delivered as e-mail attachments, and in order to view the attachments you must use the Adobe Acrobat Reader software, which is available free at:      http://www.adobe.com

After you have installed the Adobe Acrobat Reader, follow these steps to request a copy of a document:

• Search POPLINE and write down the number of the first author's name of each document you would like.  (Example:  PIP 096788, Benneh G)
• Select only documents that are less than 100 pages in length and are not commercially published books.
• Check your local library or information center to make sure the document is not locally available.
• Please limit your request to 15 or fewer documents.
• Send your document request via e-mail to:  popline@jhuccp.org.  Be sure to state that you have installed the Adobe Acrobat Reader software and wish to receive your documents over the internet.

Documents will be located and converted to an electronic file in the Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF), and then sent to you as an email attachment.   Documents with a PIP number published since 1980 can be sent quickly.  Older documents and those which have numbers beginning with CPFH, IND, or CPC are more difficult to retrieve.  So, for faster service, please limit your requests to documents with PIP numbers published since 1980.  As always, documents from developing countries will be filled free of charge.

This document delivery service is NOT available for individuals or institutions in developed countries.

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