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MEDLINE Indexing Online Training Course

Category I - Education and Social Sciences

Indexing Principles

Several of the terms in Category I can be used for both the subject field and as a coordinate with another MeSH heading to indicate a particular aspect of that heading. When used as a subject field, it is usually IM. When used as a coordinate it is usually NIM.

Career mobility in anthropology
*ANTHROPOLOGY
*CAREER MOBILITY

Anthropological aspects of cognition
*COGNITION
ANTHROPOLOGY

ETHNOLOGY is available as both a MeSH term and as a subheading. The MeSH heading will be used for general articles on ethnology as a subject field or as a profession. The subheading /ethnology with a specific MeSH term is used far more frequently than the main heading ETHNOLOGY

Training in ethnology
ETHNOLOGY/ *educ

Heart disease in Hispanic Americans
HEART DISEASES /*ethnol
*HISPANIC AMERICANS
HUMAN (Check tag)

Last Reviewed: August 28, 2013