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OLDMEDLINE
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- Description
- OVID OLDMEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine's online data of approximately 1,700,000
citations
to articles from international biomedical journals covering the fields of medicine,
preclinical
sciences and allied health sciences from 1951 through 1965. In 1964, NLM began using the
computerized
MEDLARS® (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System) system as a mechanism for producing
Index
Medicus® (IM). In 1971, MEDLARS went online with the introduction of MEDLINE®,
an interactive
searchable database of data from the 1966 Index Medicus forward. The 1964 and 1965 issues
of Index
Medicus, while available in electronic form, were not included in MEDLINE because of
format
differences. In the mid-1990s, NLM was assisted in its effort to provide online access to these
older
citations by the Deutsches Institut fur Medizinische Dokumentation und Information (DIMDI),
the
International MEDLARS Center in Germany. DIMDI had tapes of the original data from the 1964 and
1965
Cumulative Index Medicus (CIM), which they had converted and then supplied to NLM to create
OLDMEDLINE
in 1996. The citations from the 1960 - 1963 CIM and the 1951 - 1959 Current List of Medical
Literature
(CLML) were converted into machine-readable form and added to OLDMEDLINE during the past six
years.
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- Dates covered
- 1950-1965.
- Updating frequency
- Not updated.
- Sources
- Index Medicus
- Type of coverage
- Bibliographic citations
- Print Counterpart or related resources
- Index Medicus
See also: MEDLINE
- Producer/content provider
- National Library of Medicine
- Vendor/electronic presentation provider
- Ovid
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