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"ClinicalTrials.gov"
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Marcetich
Named Head of Index Section
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New
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"Racism,
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MEDLINEplus
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"PubMed
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"Adopts" D.C.'s Woodrow Wilson Senior High School
 Hospital
and Health Administration Index
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Hospital and Health Administration Index
Now Quickly Accessed by its Subscribers at No Cost
More and more, hospital librarians and others want to access the
health information they need quickly and at no cost through online
resources. Because of this shift in preference, the American
Hospital Association (AHA) will print and distribute its last
700-page cumulative bound volume of its Hospital and Health
Administration Index in the first quarter of 2000.
The 55-year old Index is a resource to what has been published on
health care administration, finance and delivery, health policy and
reform, and health planning and research for its subscribers -
mostly hospital libraries. The AHA has collaborated with NLM for 22
years to offer the Index.
"The last ten years have witnessed an explosive growth in the use
of online databases, and the expansion of the Internet has
dramatically and forever changed access to information and methods
of research," said Eloise Foster, director of AHA's Resource Center.
"With this information revolution, AHA and NLM have worked closely
to facilitate the efficient and cost-effective dissemination of
information."
Sheldon Kotzin, NLM's Chief of Bibliographic Services, says that
access to the health care journal literature will be indexed by NLM
and provided through its PubMed database, as well as Internet
Grateful Med and its planned evolution to the NLM Next Generation
Gateway in 2000. "Through our productive 22-year working
relationship with AHA, we have been able to provide a valuable
indexing service to the health care field," Kotzin said. "NLM and
AHA are exploring other potential collaborative ventures that will
capitalize on advances in information technology to better serve the
information needs of health care professionals."
The Index was first an AHA publication in 1945 called the Index
to Current Hospital Literature. It was later changed to the Hospital
Literature Index. In 1977, AHA and NLM began their collaboration,
which included a third name change to the Hospital and Health
Administration Index. It has cited over 238,000 articles from more
than 23,000 journal issues throughout its history. |
