The Index-Catalogue of the Surgeon-General's Office Goes Online

On May 1, 2004 The Index-Catalogue of the Surgeon-General's Office, a 61 volume printed bibliographical resource for the history of medicine and science, published from 1880 to 1961, was made available online by the United States National Library of Medicine. In its online form the utility of the work was greatly enhanced since it became a single searchable database rather than a series of physical volumes and different indices published over decades.

This was the culmination of a data conversion project which began in 1996.