Trends in Medical Abstracting and Indexing Tools; A Symposium Excerpta Medica

摘要

IT GIVES me particular pleasure to be here this evening and to take part in your discussions because just this month Excerpta Medica is celebrating its tenth anniversary and the publication of its first three quarters of a million abstracts. I do not propose to tell you of all the difficulties we have met and overcome during these first ten years, but shall confine my remarks this evening to outlining our progress and plans, emphasizing what we are aiming to do, the extent to which we believe we are achieving our aims, to admitting where we feel we fall short of them and to bringing to you a possible solution to one of the librarians' problems, as we understand it, of really rapid orientation of the important medical literature of the world.