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Monday, September 3, 2012

Medline covers :

As of July 2012, the number of biomedical journals that are indexed for MEDLINE  =5,632 journal titles. Of these 5,022 journals are indexed  in Index Medicus.

The printed Index Medicus,was started by John Shaw Billings in 1879, its print version was ceased eight years ago.
Source:NLM Tech Bull.

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