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Index Medicus

Index Medicus was an American periodical indexing medical and life sciences publications. (There is a Wikipedia article about this serial.)

Publication History

Index Medicus began in 1879. Its first series ran 21 volumes from 1879 to 1899, its second series ran 18 volumes from 1903 to 1920, and its third series ran 6 volumes from 1921 to 1927. In 1927 it was acquired by the American Medical Association, which published it as Quarterly Cumulative Index Medicus until 1956. The National Library of Medicine took it over in 1960, publishing it as Index Medicus/Cumulated Index Medicus. No issue or contribution copyright renewals were found for this serial. It ran in print form until 2004. The National Library of Medicine's PubMed database now covers the publications that Index Medicus once covered, as well as many other publications.

Persistent Archives of Complete Issues

• 1879-1927: HathiTrust has the first two series, and volumes 1-6 of the third series.
• 1927-1949, 1954-1955: HathiTrust also has volumes 1-19, 21-43, 46, and 56-60 of Quarterly Cumulative Index Medicus.
• 1960-1961, 1964-2000: HathiTrust has most of volumes 1-2 and 5-41 of Cumulated Index Medicus. A few volumes here may be incomplete.
• 2002-2004: HathiTrust also has most Index issues from late 2002 to 2004. This listing may also include 1960s and 1970s issues of the Medical Subject Headings reference, which was published as part of Index Medicus.

Official Site / Current Material

• PubMed is the present-day successor to Index Medicus, and includes the publications that periodical indexed in its database.

Related Resources

• We also list Medical Subject Headings, which was used to index this serial, and was sometimes also published in it.

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