RE: The Best Kept Secret in Health Physics

["Migliore, Charles W" <Charles.W.Migliore@nspco.com>]

ok, so how do you get it?

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	norman@charlotte.med.nyu.edu [SMTP:norman@charlotte.med.nyu.edu]
> Sent:	Tuesday, March 30, 1999 9:12 PM
> To:	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject:	Re: The Best Kept Secret in Health Physics
> 
> 
> Dear rad health - research, teaching and health physics colleagues,
> 
> The Medical Center/Institute where I maintain my office has an excellent
> and comprehensive resource library and provides extensive Internet hookup
> with many e-journal site licenses.  However, I have found that none of
> these literature search options is as inclusive or subject-specific, and
> as
> user-friendly as "QUEST" for accessing the health physics, radiation
> dosimetry, and radiation protection literature.
> 
> For those of you who are unfamiliar with "QUEST", it is a commercially
> available computer program that is installed and runs locally on a PC.
> Although there are many data base searches available these days, I have
> yet
> to encounter one that includes the enhanced array of profession-specific
> literature titles and abstracts as does QUEST. I am always surprised,
> therefore, that professionals who call me about one or another reference,
> have not turned to QUEST. As an important time saving guide to the
> radiation safety, health physics, and dosimetry literature, it must truly
> be one of the best kept secrets in the profession.
> 
> Recently, I had occasion to speak with Bill Schadt, President of the
> company that markets QUEST and was saddened to learn that the 1998 QUEST
> update, due to be released soon, might be the last of the series.  To me,
> the possibility that QUEST might not be continued, represents the loss of
> an essential resource that, over the years, has become akin to a close and
> reliable old friend.
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