Table of Contents for the NLM Technical Bulletin
Table of Contents for the March - April 2003 issue:
PubMed®: Publication Type Mapping - e1
Enhancements made to include Publication Types (PT) and their Entry Terms
Change to PubMed's®: Automatic Term Mapping Affects Phrase Searching - e3
Improving PubMed® searches
The XIV International AIDS Conference Meeting Abstracts Available in the NLM Gateway - e4
Search hints for finding the meeting abstracts in the NLM Gateway
New MeSH Descriptor: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) - e5
MeSH descriptor added for this new disease
E-mail Feature Planned for PubMed ® Soon - e6
Valuable new feature. [Editor's Note: This feature has already been implemented in PubMed]
PubMed's® MeSH Mapping Feature to Include More British Spellings - e7
MeSH Translation Table improved with additional British spellings of words
NLM Gateway Implements Phrase Detection - e8
Improved phrase searching
CANCERLIT® Retired, NCI and NLM Collaborate to Improve Access to Cancer-Related PubMed Citations - e9
NCI has retired its CANCERLIT database and is linking users directly to PubMed for journal citation
Implementation of New Guidelines for the Structure and Nomenclature of Protein Concepts in MeSH - e10
Due to the recent increase in published sequence data and the concurrent use of short acronym names for proteins NLM has revised the MeSH protein thesaurus and developed a new system to accurately index and retrieve protein-related information
Cancer Subset Added to PubMed® - e11
New subject subset will soon be available in PubMed
New MeSH Descriptor: SARS Virus - e12
Another new descriptor added for this new disease
New Entrez Database: MeSH - e13
PubMed® MeSH Browser replaced by new Entrez database, MeSH, enhancing search and display features
Changes to PubMed® for 2003 - e14
PubMed® revised to reflect NLM's changes to MEDLINE
MEDLINEplus® Adds New Features for 2003 - e15
Many new enhancements
Technical Notes - e2:
New Version of NLM Gateway Released - March 5, 2003
Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary on MEDLINEplus
New Clinical Advisory Issued
2003 MLA Meeting Reminder and NLM Invitation
MEDLINE Milestone - 12 Millionth Journal Citation
More Organisms Added to LocusLink Organisms
PubMed to Complete Transition to E-Utilities and Manually Constructed URLs
Partners in Information Access Web Site Redesign
New Books Added to NCBI's Bookshelf
DOCLINE 1.5 Released
DOCLINE: 10 Million Transactions and Counting
New Version of NLM Gateway Released - April 22, 2003