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Article: Research from S.J. Greenberg et al has provided new information about library science.
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- Information Technology Newsweekly
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- August 18, 2009
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"The systematic indexing of medical literature by the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (now the National Library of Medicine) has been called ''America's greatest contribution to medical knowledge.'' In the 1870s, the library launched two indexes: the Index Medicus and the Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office. Index Medicus is better remembered today as the forerunner of MEDLINE, but Index Medicus began as the junior partner of what the library saw as its major publication, the Index-Catalogue," researchers in the United States report.
"However, the Index-Catalogue had been largely overlooked by many medical librarians until 2004, ...