摘要：The increasing demand for co-ordination in the field of medical abstracting has lately become apparent. During the past decade, the trend towards specialization in the field of medicine has brought an influx of specialist journals on the market. This bulk of additional literature has created a situation in medical libraries whereby adequate information cannot be provided. Many libraries, therefore, neither can house the original periodicals because of lack of space, nor pay the high subscription cost of some few abstracting journals.
