Table of Contents: 2016 SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER No. 412
MEDLINE Celebrates Its 45th Anniversary!. NLM Tech Bull. 2016 Sep-Oct;(412):e6.
October 2016 marks the 45th anniversary of MEDLINE (MEDLARS Online). Much has changed since 1971. Here are a some notable MEDLINE and current events that happened in 1971, 2006 at the 35th anniversary, and today. See Figure 1 for an infographic presentation of some of the information in the chart.
Notable MEDLINE Events | ||
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1971 | 2006 (Fiscal Year 2005 Statistics) |
2016 (Fiscal Year 2015 Statistics) |
236 indexed journals; grew to 1,222 journals by September 1972 | 4,928 indexed journals | 5,618 indexed journals |
147,000 total citations for MEDLARS since January 1, 1969; grew to 490,000 by September 1972 | 606,000 citations indexed; 13,476,222 total citations | 806,326 citations indexed; 20,651,383 total citations not counting the 2 million OLDMEDLINE-derived citations that all now have MeSH |
22 users | 77 million PubMed unique visits | 601 million PubMed unique visitors |
70,000 searches/year by June 1972 | 754 million PubMed searches | 2.8 billion PubMed searches (Web and API) |
Operated on an IBM 360/50 mainframe computer | PubMed/MEDLINE runs on 20 Dell PowerEdge 1850 servers, 2 CPU 8Gb RAM, with the Linux operating system in 64 bit mode | PubMed runs on approximately 62 standard Linux servers, each with two quad core 2.6-3.6 GHz Intel Nehalem CPUs, 48-64 GB of memory, 1TB of local storage, and a Gigabit Ethernet connection. |
Available via dial-up telecommunications for a fee | Available via the Internet World Wide Web | Still available free on the Internet World Wide Web |
Current Events | ||
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1971 | 2006 | 2016 |
NASA Mariner 1 arrived at Mars - the first spacecraft to orbit the Red Planet. | March 10 - NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter enters Mars orbit. | NASA’s Juno spacecraft entered Jupiter orbit. |
Chemistry Nobel Prize awarded to Gerhard Herzberg, Canada for "for his contributions to the knowledge of electronic structure and geometry of molecules, particularly free radicals." | Leading astronomers declared that Pluto is no longer a planet under historic new guidelines that downsize the solar system from nine planets to eight. | Astronomers announced discovery of Proxmia b, a possibly Earth-like planet. |
Earl W. Sutherland, Jr wins Nobel for Physiology or Medicine for "his discoveries concerning the mechanisms of the action of hormones." | A U.S. advisory panel recommended that 11- and 12-year-old girls be routinely vaccinated against the human papillomavirus virus that causes cervical cancer. | NCI announced a scientific roadmap to support the White House Cancer Moonshot goals. |
In November Intel publicly introduced the world's first single chip microprocessor. | A drug-resistant bacterium, Staphylococcus aureus, became the most common identifiable cause of skin infections treated in emergency rooms, accounting for 59 percent of such ER cases in 11 major U.S. cities. | NIH began testing an investigational Zika vaccine in humans. |
The 26th Amendment lowered the United States voting age from 21 to 18. | April - More than 1,000 cases of the mumps reported in Iowa and seven surrounding states in the largest outbreak of the disease in the U.S. in more than 20 years. | NIH funded precision medicine research with a focus on health disparities. |
Walt Disney World opened October 1 in Orlando, Florida. | "30 Rock" debuts on NBC. | NLM welcomes Dr. Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD, as its new Director. |
"All in the Family" debuts in 1971 on CBS. | July: "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" opens - as of September 2006 the film made over $414 million dollars in the U.S. | PubMed has its 20th anniversary. |
National Book Award for fiction presented to Saul Bellow for Mr. Sammler's Planet. | As of September, the current number one song is "SexyBack" (Justin Timberlake). | Final videocassette recorder was manufactured by the Japanese company Funai. |
"The French Connection" won the Best Picture Academy Award. | Summer Olympics held in Rio de Janiero; NIH funds Zika virus study involving U.S. Olympic team. | |
#1 song according to Billboard Magazine: "Joy to the World" by Three Dog Night. | As of September 16, the movie "Finding Dory" grossed over $483 million in the U.S. | |
In January, Adele's "Hello" is the # 1 song. |