Trends in Medical Abstracting and Indexing Tools; A Symposium Quarterly Cumulative Index Medicus

摘要

1IiHE Quarterly Cumulative Index Medicus has a distinguished ancestry, being the outgrowth, on one side, of the Index Medicus and, on the other, of the Quarterly Cumulative Index to Current Medical Literature. The Index Medicus began its career in 1879 as an offshoot of the Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office. The other immediate progenitor was developed by the American Medical Association Library in 1916 from the titles in the Current Medical Literature section of the Journal of the American Medical Association. The Index Medicus and the Quarterly Cumulative Index to Current Medical Literature were published concurrently for eleven years; then in 1927, when it became increasingly apparent that they were becoming expensive duplications, an arrangement for combining them into one publication was formulated.