About
Silver Hammer Publishing

Silver Hammer Publishing is an electronic publishing company that produces e-mail newsletters about health and the Internet. Subscriptions to the weekly newsletters are free.

The company currently publishes two newsletters: Health Newsbrief and HealthESites.

The company was launched in March 2000 by Bruce Maxwell, an investigative journalist and author of numerous books about how to find information on the Internet. His most recent Internet books include How to Find Health Information on the Internet, How to Track Politics on the Internet, and How to Access the Federal Government on the Internet (fourth edition). All are published by Congressional Quarterly in Washington, D.C.

The books have received outstanding reviews from publications such as The Lancet, The New York Times Online, Library Journal, Choice, USA Today.com, Online magazine, the Internet Resources Newsletter, Current Cites, International Health News, Medical Reference Services Quarterly, Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, the Journal of Government Information, Information Today, and Technical Communication, among others.

Maxwell received his master's degree from the University of Missouri School of Journalism in 1983. He initially did investigative reporting for newspapers in the Midwest, and his work won more than a dozen national, regional, and state journalism awards.