National Library of Medicine, the world's largest medical library and component of the National Institutes of Health, and the History of Medicine Division are pleased to announce the launch of the new user interface for database IndexCat, together with two new collections covering the medieval texts of scientific English and Latin.
Using software developed by Ex Libris, Inc., the new interface IndexCat offers enhanced viewing capabilities and new layouts search results and displays the record.
IndexCat is available online, free of charge, at: http://indexcat.nlm.nih.gov.
By providing access to digital versions of print, 61-volume index-catalogue of the library of the Office of Surgeon General, IndexCat contains over 4.5 million bibliographical references elements more than 3.7 million dating from more than five centuries, covering the fields of basic sciences, research, civil and military medicine, public health and hospital administration. The language is international with quotations in European languages and Slavic, Greek script and the titles of Chinese and Japanese – some of the English translations. A wide range of materials can be discovered IndexCat, including books, articles, press releases, doktorskie, flyers, reports, Newspaper clippings, case studies, Obituary notices, letters, portraits, as well as a rare books and manuscripts.
For more information about the original index catalogue, see: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/indexcat/abouticatalogue.html.
Two new collections now available through IndexCat are part of the project supported the NLM in conjunction with the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Collections historical landmark, are developed with enriched electronic database and Catalogue of Incipits of mediaeval scientific Writings in Latin (Rev.), Lynn Thorndike and Pearl Kibre (eTK) and the updated and expanded version of the electronic scientific and medical Writings in old and Middle English: an electronic reference (eVK2), edited by Linda Ehrsam Voigts and Patricia Deery Kurtz. Opening up new research historical, these measures include more than 42 000 records of incipits or words beginning 6th or early printed books. IndexCat users can search the incipit manuscript, library, author, title, subject, date, and other information.
For more information about IndexCat, visit page IndexCat on: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/indexcat/ichome.html.
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