Bartleby Weekly: May 14, 2001

Bartleby Weekly

Volume II, Issue 5. May 14, 2001

Bartleby.com Named a Top 50 Science and Technology Web Site by ScientificAmerican.com

Bartleby.com has been named a top 50 Science and Technology Web Site for 2001 by Scientific American magazine. After reviewing web sites for five years, thousands of contenders were narrowed down to just 50 in 10 categories. Bartleby.com is pleased to highlight the following review of Gray’s Anatomy from a list of five “Medicine” sites chosen by ScientificAmerican.com:

This online version of the classic reference book features 1,247 engravings from the original 1918 publication, as well as a subject index with 13,000 entries ranging, as they describe it, “from the Antrum of Highmore to the Zonule of Zinn.” The main advantage of having Gray’s Anatomy in this form is, of course, that searching for some bodily bit is a lot easier when you don’t also have to balance the 27-centimeter-thick tome on your knee—er, patella. The site offers a search engine, or you can browse the content headings, ordered more or less with the traditional “leg bone connects to the [click here]” logic. For closet librarians, the site also offers anatomical and standard bibliographic records, including a link to a short biography of Henry Gray himself. And just like any definitive reference work on paper, the online version includes a preface and an introduction.
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