MEDLINE went live for the first time on October 27, 1971.
In 1971, MEDLINE featured 239 indexed journals. In 2006, that number has grown to 4,928. In 1971, MEDLINE served 25 users. In 2006, MEDLINE/PubMed will average 77 million unique visits and about 800 million searches. View a PDF version (2 pages) of the complete article, “NLM to Introduce MEDLINE Service,” from the September-October 1971 NLM NEWS at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/medline_news_article.pdf.
(MEDLINE is an international literature database of life sciences and biomedical information. It covers the fields of medicine, nursing, and other health related disciplines. MEDLINE is freely available on the Internet and searchable via PubMed.)
Source: MEDLINE News
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