Quarterly Cumulative Index Medicus, Litteraturtjenesten ved provinssykehusene i Norge, Medisinske indekser og referater, en sammenlignende studie

摘要

Three articles by Oscar Fredrik Guldberg of Stavanger, Norway, deal withcertain aspects of medical periodical indexes. The first article reports on a checking of the periodicals indexed in Quarterly Cumulative Index Medicus and their holdings in the library of the Karolinska Institutet. In the second article the author recommends the use by Norwegian provincial hospitals of Current List of Medical Literature and some sections of Excerpta Medica, and discusses the purchasing from abroad of microfilm and photoprints. The third article presents statistics of a comparison of the number of journals indexed in volume 47 of QCIM with the number indexed in the December 1951 issue of Current List. Figures are given on the appearance of articles and their indexing in Current List. Chemical Abstracts is reported more up-todate than Excerpta Medica. A brief abstract in English is given for each article. The incorporation of these individual studies into a treatment of all the variables of the subject and the inclusion of more up-to-date and larger samplings would lend greater value and validity to the conclusions.