An agreement has been made with the National Library of Medicine in Washington, D. C., whereby the American Medical Association will publish annually in cumulated form the bibliographic references which appeared in the preceding year in the Index Medicus, a name which the present Current List of Medical Literature will assume in January, 1960.
The offer of the National Library of Medicine to provide the American Medical Association with the cumulated copy in film form was accepted by the Board of Trustees at the Atlantic City meeting in June, at which time the trustees decided also to discontinue publication of the Quarterly Cumulative Index Medicus with volume 60 (July-December, 1956), which volume recently was mailed to its subscribers. The format of the new Cumulated Index Medicus will be closely like that of the Quarterly Cumulative Index Medicus, and it will eventually provide a truly world-wide coverage of medical literature, probably