Health Information–Databases
Source: NLM
Keyboarding Ceases as a Data Creation Method for MEDLINE Citations
From the article, “he keyboarding data creation stream for MEDLINE citations ceased June 29, 2004. NLM used keyboarding to create journal article bibliographic data since 1967…NLM developed a cost-effective scanning and optical character recognition (OCR) system as well as a standard for direct electronic submission of citation data from publishers to MEDLINE. Publisher-supplied electronic citation data today accounts for about 75% of all new MEDLINE citations and the proportion continues to grow. The scanning and OCR system has been improved to the point that it can handle the rest of the journals. As a result of these developments, it is no longer cost effective or necessary for NLM to continue the keyboarding operation.”

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