May/June 2002
volume 11, issue 3
In this issue:
Loansome Doc for the Consumer: Year One
The Quick Guide to Electronic Delivery: From Paper to PDF
How to Create a Customized Union List Using SERHOLD Report Data
National Library Week Promotional Items Success: Job Well Done!
The Electronic Funds Transfer System
Healthy People 2010
Welcome, Alan!
PSRML's Regional Advisory Committee
NLM's Internet Access to Digital Libraries (IADL) Grant to Replace the Internet Connection and Information Access grants
2002 MLA Meeting Reminder and NLM Invitation
Highlights from the March - April 2002 NLM Technical Bulletin
In every issue:
Table of Contents for the NLM Technical Bulletin
Upcoming Events - 2002
Publication Information
Highlights from the March - April 2002 issue of the NLM Technical Bulletin
PubMed
- A text version of PubMed is now available; it was developed for people who need adaptive equipment to use the Web. Search capabilities are similar to most of those available in the full-featured version of PubMed. The PubMed Text Version was tested on screen reading software including JAWS® for Windows® and outSPOKEN® for Macintosh®. Look for the icon on the sidebar!
- Beginning with 2002, PubMed has a new Publication Type - "Patient Education Handout". Indexers add this Pub Type for articles with a patient focus that are designed to explain a procedure or condition or comment on other articles, such as JAMA's Patient Pages and American Family Physician's Information From Your Family Doctor. The article explains how to search for these materials prior to 2002.
- A new PubMed Tutorial was released in April and includes Systematic Reviews.
Unified Medical Language System (UMLS)
The latest release of the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) Knowledge Sources (2002AA) and the new UMLS Knowledge Source server are available at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/umlsmain.html. System developers can use UMLS products to enhance their applications -- in systems focused on patient data, digital libraries, Web and bibliographic retrieval, natural language processing, and decision support. Researchers will find the UMLS products useful in investigating knowledge representation and retrieval questions.
