Are you making the most of "Index Medicus"?

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L McCormick

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When you need to unearth articles on your topic of interest, do you visit your nearest hospital/medical library ? If so, do you head for the librarian and ask for a search to be done or do you make for the shelves holding Index Medicus ? If the former you will probably observe that the librarian goes to Index Medicus to carry out your search for you and you will be lucky if your search is done as soon as you would like. And, with all due respect to library staff, they do not know your subject as well as you do, even though their searching technique may be better. So why not brush up your own abilities vis-a-vis creating a search profile and be sure you have located all possible relevant citations ? Many indexing and abstracting journals exist, and only the largest and most opulent libraries hold them all. Most medical libraries, however, hold Index Medicus, which is the most prestigious of indexing tools, as well as being the best known in terms of rapid subject retrieval. Although not comprehensive in coverage, Index Medicus indexes over 5000 of the world's principal medical and biomedical journals. The listing of those journals covered is given, both in their full and abbreviated form. This list is updated annually to take account of important

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