Changing face of MEDLINE
This seminar discusses:
Definitions
Pubmed website
New Global results
Pubmed record
MeSH treetop
A useful indexing database is either updating or dying!
Add - Comp. & Alt. Med
Add - Plants added to MeSH
Add & Change - Flavonoids
Changes - drift in meaning
Changes - dual meaning
Splitting - more granularity
Ambiguity plays havoc
MeSH terms criteria
How can you keep up? How improve your searches?
Searching the right words
3 Key tips
1) Details
Details editable
2) MeSH Database
MeSH Database in use
trick to MeSH Browser
to MeSH Browser
MeSH Browser
MeSH Browser results
MeSH record
MeSH Browser to tree top
3) Display Citation
Pubmed Display Citation
Citation
keep refining the search by balancing:
Precision Recall Tradeoff
Tips for authors
MeSH group at NLM
Summary 3 tips to better searching
Email: BearS@mail.nlm.nih.gov
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