Changing face of MEDLINE

4/14/2004


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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

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

MeSH treetop

3) Display Citation

Pubmed Display Citation

Citation

keep refining the search by balancing:

Precision Recall Tradeoff

Tips for authors

Tips for authors

Tips for authors

Tips for authors

MeSH group at NLM

Summary 3 tips to better searching

Author: Soaring Bear, Ph.D

Email: BearS@mail.nlm.nih.gov

Home Page: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/bear.html