| Producer | United States National Library of Medicine (United States) |
|---|---|
| Coverage | |
| Disciplines | medical science |
| Record depth | Index |
| Format coverage | journal articles |
| Print edition | |
| Print title | Index Medicus |
| Print dates | 1879-2004 |
| ISSN | 0019-3879 |
Index Medicus (IM) is a curated subset of MEDLINE, which is a bibliographic database of life science and biomedical science information, principally scientific journal articles. From 1879 to 2004, Index Medicus was a comprehensive bibliographic index of such articles in the form of a print index or (in later years) its onscreen equivalent. Medical history experts have said of Index Medicus that it is “America's greatest contribution to medical knowledge.”[1]