March/April 2002
volume 11, issue 2
In this issue:
Digital Health Reference Service: A Cooperative Project with Public Libraries
PSRML Express Outreach Awards
It's "EZ" to Apply for NLM's Internet Connection Grants!
Membership Renewal Update
Joint Meeting Update
MEDLINE Facts
Where Can I Find a Listserv On...?
Surgeon General's Reports on the Web
NIH's New Rare Disease Information Center
Highlights from the January - February 2002 NLM Technical Bulletin
In every issue:
Table of Contents for the NLM Technical Bulletin
Upcoming Events - 2002
Publication Information
Highlights from the January - February 2002 NLM Technical Bulletin
PubMed/MEDLINE Available with 2002 MeSH and Two Changes
What are the two changes? First is an update on the comments/corrections family of fields. These comments/corrections now display as links so that you can navigate from one citation to another. For example, you can move from a citation for a letter that comments on another article to the PubMed record for that article. A complete list of the different types of comments and corrections is included in this article. Second, beginning in January 2002, PubMed records may include full names for authors. Full names will be included in the following fields: Full Author (FAU), Full Personal Name as Subject (FPS), and Full Investigator (FIR). These fields will display above the standard author field (AU). Full name fields are not searchable.
Herbs and 2002 MeSH
How many of you read the article in the last issue of Latitudes called Late Night Reading: Medical Subject Headings 2002? "Herbs" has been eliminated from MeSH, "on the basis of its vagueness in discourse". This article in the Technical Bulletin explains why "herbs" has been eliminated.
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
NLM has been indexing the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews since Summer 2000. Copies of the reviews are available through DOCLINE. (NLM's license with Cochrane permits supply of copies in response to ILL requests.) You can also order copies online from the publisher at a fairly reasonable price ($15 as of February, 2002, with extra charges for same day processing and/or FedEx same day delivery); go to the document delivery section of their Web site at http://www.cochranelibrary.com/Cochrane/. Cochrane is not yet available for LinkOut for Libraries. More detail on Cochrane Reviews and their indexing in MEDLINE is available in this issue of the Technical Bulletin.
PubMed's Systematic Reviews
This issue of the NLM Technical Bulletin includes an excellent article on Systematic Reviews. Briefly described in the last issue of Latitudes, this issue continues with a detailed description, examples, and the strategy used in the Systematic Reviews filter. You can select Systematic Reviews on PubMed's Clinical Queries screen linked on the left sidebar.
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