OSTMED.DR was recently released to provide access to all of the content within OSTMED. OSTMED.DR is full text and is endorsed by the AOA and AACOM and is funded by VCOM through the Harvey W. Peters Foundation. The goal is to "promote and facilitate research and scholarly activity in the ostepathic profession by providing ready access to the current osteopathic literature and hard to find resources including historical documents." In addition to books and journals, videos and images are to be included in the database.

OSTMED.DR is free for the first six months (July - December 2007) Afterwards it will only be availble through a subscription (personal or institutional).

So far accessing OSTMED.DR's is glacial at best, most of the time I am timed out and can't even get onto the front page. I have repeatedly tried to get through but I guess they did not plan for this amount of traffic.

My biggest question regarding OSTMED.DR is currency.

OSTMED.DR is the full text access to the content of OSTMED, right? If so then how can it provide ready access to the "current osteopathic literature" when OSTMED ceased in 2004 and has not added any new information since December 2003?! Has OSTMED started back up? This should have been addressed in the information they sent out about OSTMED.DR.

Of course I have other questions and I will write more about this resource if/when I am able to access it anytime soon.