StATS: Medline is a very busy place (November 6, 2006)

According to a National Library of Medicine announcement

Medline, a database that indexes millions of publications from thousands of medical journals, is celebrating its 35th anniversary. Some statistics are revealing. Medline currently indexes over 4,900 journals and has over 13 million entries. In the previous fiscal year alone, over 600 thousand citations were indexed.

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