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| Producer | United States National Library of Medicine (United States) |
|---|---|
| Coverage | |
| Disciplines | medical science |
| Record depth | Index |
| Format coverage | journal articles |
| Print edition | |
| Print title | Index Medicus |
| Print dates | 1879-2004 |
| ISSN | 0019-3879 |
Index Medicus (IM) is a curated subset of MEDLINE, which is a bibliographic database of life science and biomedical science information, principally scientific journal articles. From 1879 to 2004, Index Medicus was a comprehensive bibliographic index of such articles in the form of a print index or (in later years) its onscreen equivalent. Medical history experts have said of Index Medicus that it is “America's greatest contribution to medical knowledge.”[1]
- ^ Greenberg, Stephen; Gallagher, Patricia (2009). "The great contribution: Index Medicus, Index-Catalogue, and IndexCat". Journal of the Medical Library Association. 97 (2): 108–113. doi:10.3163/1536-5050.97.2.007. PMC 2670211. PMID 19404501.