Report of The Committee on a Coordinated Abstracting Service for Clinical Medicine and a Summary of Two Conferences on Scientific Abstracting Held in Paris, in April, 1948, at UNESCO House

摘要

This has been a most eventful year in the history of your Committee on a Coordinated Abstracting Service for Clinical Medicine. Last year, this Committee reported to the Medical Library Association the results of a survey on existing abstracting services of the biological and medical literature.' Copies of this Survey were sent to eighty-six representative medical societies and interested individuals, including copies to the National Research Council; the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Section on Natural Sciences, and to its Libraries Section. As reported last year, this survey had already been presented to, and received the endorsement of, the Libraries Division of the American Commission on UNESCO at its meeting in March, I947.