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Using the Collections
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While most of the books, journals, and manuscripts in NLM historical collections can be searched in Library catalog (LocatorPlus), printed catalogs and guides are useful for finding journal articles, papers, proceedings, book chapters, theses, pamphlets, and ephemeral items, as well as descriptive information of specific works.
Monographs, journal articles, dissertations, theses, pamphlets, and reports published from the 17th-20th century (cataloged and uncataloged) are indexed in the printed subject catalog, Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office. U.S. Army (61 volumes in 5 series, 1880-1961). The National Library of Medicine was formerly the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office. The printed Index-Catalogue can be found in most large research and medical school libraries. See also the online version IndexCat.
Journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers and proceedings that were published from 1965-1993 are indexed in the Bibliography of the History of Medicine. The Bibliography, a printed version of the discontinued HISTLINE database, was published in six cumulative volumes (1965-1993), and is useful for pre-1993 material. The Bibliography can be consulted in the History of Medicine Reading Room and at many large research and medical school libraries.
Index Medicus, 1879-1927, is the standard bibliography of medicine from 1879-1927. It serves as an index to journal articles in biomedical journals worldwide.
Index Medicus and its successors can be found in the NLM History of Medicine and Main Reading Rooms, as well as at many large research and medical school libraries.
Index Medicus is followed by
Last updated: 23 July 2004
First published: 29 April 2004
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