The NLM Indexing Initiative: Current Status and Role in Improving Access to Biomedical Information
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The NLM Medical Text Indexer System for Indexing Biomedical Literature
In the face of a growing workload and dwindling resources, the US National Library of Medicine (NLM) created the Indexing Initiative project in the mid-1990s. This cross-library team’s mission is to explore indexing methodologies that can help ensure that MEDLINE and other NLM document collections maintain their quality and currency and thereby contribute to NLM’s mission of maintaining quality...
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