Highlights of the January - February 2004 issue of the NLM Technical Bulletin
Health Services Research Filters for Searching PubMed - A Beta Test
The National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR) has released a beta test version of PubMed search filters for health care quality and costs. These filters are similar in structure to PubMed's Clinical Queries filters except, of course, that they deal with issues relating to appropriateness, process, and outcomes assessment or costs and cost-effectiveness. Please see this article in the NLM Technical Bulletin for more information about this beta test. If you work with quality and cost issues, please help with this development by participating in the beta test!
PubMed
- Languages - Bosnian is a new language valid for MEDLINE indexing effective for 2004 publications. Three languages used in indexing OLDMEDLINE citations are now also included in PubMed. These are: Azerbaijani, Malayalam, and Vietnamese. Note: The language pull-down in PubMed Limits includes only English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish. All of the over sixty languages may be searched in PubMed using the name of the language or the three character language code and the field qualifier [la] or the language field in PubMed Limits.
- You can now be added to a listserv to learn about additions to the NCBI bookshelf and learn about new titles such as Neuroscience, 2nd edition by Purvis et al. Click on Bookshelf on the PubMed home page.
- OLDMEDLINE now covers back through 1951.
- The emphasis labels in PubMed's Clinical Queries have been changed. 'Sensitivity' has been replaced by 'sensitive search (broad)'; 'specificity' has been replaced by 'specific search (narrow)'. Thank goodness for the added clarity.
- PubMed's subject subset strategies have been updated. These include: Bioethics, Cancer, Complementary Medicine, Space Life Sciences, Systematic Reviews, and Toxicology.
Training Manuals
- Updated PubMed, NLM Gateway, and ClinicalTrials.gov training manuals are now available.
PubMed Central
- New PubMed Central journals include: Clinical and Molecular Allergy, Journal of Circadian Rhythms, and PLoS Biology.
- Molecular Biology of the Cell is now available full-text back to 1992.
Gene Indexing
- Three new organisms are now indexed for LocusLink: chicken, pig, and Xenopus tropicalis (Western clawed frog). This brings the total number of organisms to 13.
ClinicalTrials.gov
- A map of study locations is now included in search results.
ToxTown
- There are eight new entries to ToxTown: nitrogen oxides, particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, pesticides, phthalates, volatile organic compounds, benzene, and chromium.