1949 LARKEY, Sanford Vincent (1898 – 1969)

The Army Medical Library research project at the Welch Medical Library.

One of the first reports on one of the earliest projects in automating information retrieval, the expression for which was coined by Calvin Mooers the following year. At this early date electronic computers were not y…

GMN 7992 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10168

1953 LARKEY, Sanford Vincent (1898 – 1969)

The Welch Medical Library indexing project.

A progress report on this pioneering information retrieval project. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

GMN 7993 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10169

1963 U.S. NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE

The MEDLARS story at the National Library of Medicine.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 7947 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10122

1968 LANCASTER, F. W.

Evaluation of the MEDLARS demand search service.

The first large-scale evaluation of a "major operating information system." A detailed analysis of the performance of the Medical Literature and Analysis System (MEDLARS) in relation to 300 actual "demand search" requ…

GMN 7948 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10123

1982 MILES, Wyndham Davies (1916 – 2011)

A history of the National Library of Medicine: The nation's treasury of medical knowledge.

Digital facsimile from the National Library of Medicine at this link; from the Internet Archive at this link. Chapter XX is "Evolution of Computerized Bibliographies."

GMN 7431 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9603

1996 HERSH, William R.

Information retrieval: A health care perspective.

Third edition as Information retrieval: A health and biomedical perspective (2009).

GMN 7975 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10151

2003

Histoire de la Médecine et des Sciences Vétérinaires.

http://www.histoire-medecine-veterinaire.fr/ http://www.histoire-medecine-veterinaire.fr/en/

GMN 10154 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12343

2007 DEE, Cheryl Rae

Development of the Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System (MEDLARS).

Digital version from PubMedCentral at this link.

GMN 7994 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10170

2011 LINNAEUS, Carl (Linné) (1707 – 1778)

Linnaeus Link.

http://www.linnaeuslink.org/search/ "The Linnaeus Link Project is an international collaboration between libraries with significant holdings of Linnaean material. It is funded, maintained and co-ordinated by the Linne…

GMN 13641 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15922