THE HISTORY OF ADC

The digital age has truly arrived at ADC. We blog, have RSS feeds and have begun podcasts. Now, courtesy of the National Institutes of Health (National Library of Medicine) the entire collection of ADC is available at http://adc.bmj.com/contents-by-date.0.dtl (last accessed 9 April 2009). Between 1926 and 1937, ADC was published six times each year. During the war years, 1938–1950, four issues appeared annually. Between 1951 and 1972 we returned to six issues. Since then, ADC has appeared monthly. Fetal and Neonatal joined the family in 1994 and Education and Practice in 2004. Searching the Archive can be done by issue, subject, title or author, with the article in PDF format just a couple of clicks away. For example, the first research publication of each of RCPCH presidents can easily be found. They are:

• Professor David Baum (1997–1999) – Retinal photography in the newborn, 1969

• Professor Richard Cooke (1999–2000) – Factors associated with periventricular haemorrhage in very low birthweight infants, 1981

• Professor Sir David Hall (2000–2003) – When does secretory otitis media affect language development, 1986 …