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2008 MARCH–APRIL No. 361
April 24, 2008 [posted]

NLM® Classification 2008 Edition Now Available

t he NLM Classification, available online at //wwwcf.nlm.nih.gov/class/, incorporates all additions and changes to the schedules and index from April 2007 through March 2008. The PDF version will be updated with 2008 classification data by April 30, 2008.

The WA (Public Health) and WB (Practice of Medicine) schedules were the major areas of focus for the 2008 edition, along with Table G.

Some WA and WB class numbers were revised to better reflect the scope of the number. For example:



Class Numbers Added — 2008

New Number
Class Name
Former Number
 
QT Physiology
 
QT 260.5.V6 Volleyball None
     
 
WA Public Health
 
WA 115 Immunization WA 110
WA 300.1 General coverage (Not Table G) [Health issues of special population groups] None
WA 305.1 General coverage (Not Table G) [Mental health of special population groups] None
WA 306 Men's health None
WA 309.1 General coverage (Not Table G) [Women's health] None
WA 310.1 General coverage (Not Table G) [Maternal welfare. Maternal and child welfare. Maternal health services] None
WA 325 Child abuse WA 320
     
 
WB Practice of Medicine
 
WB 55 Traditional medicine (General or not elsewhere classified WB 50
WB 55.A3 African traditional medicine WB 50
WB 55.A7 Arabic traditional medicine WB 50
WB 55.A9 Ayurvedic medicine WB 50
WB 55.C4 Chinese traditional medicine WB 50
WB 55.F3 Far East traditional medicine WB 50
WB 55.K3 Kampo medicine WB 50
WB 55.K6 Korean traditional medicine WB 50
WB 55.T5 Tibetan traditional medicine WB 50
WB 55.U5 Unani medicine WB 50
WB 65 Euthanasia. Assisted suicide WB 60
WB 102.5 Evidence-based medicine WB 102
WB 543 Breathing exercises WB 541
     
 
WD Disorders of Systemic, Metabolic or Environmental Origin, etc.
 
WD 380 Systemic lupus erythematosus WR152
     
 
WM Psychiatry
 
WM 167 Psychological aspects of crime victims WM 165
     
 
WO Surgery
 
WO 515 Regenerative medicine None
     
 
WZ History of Medicine
 
WZ 112.5.A6 Anatomists None
WZ 112.5.G4 Geneticists None

No class numbers were canceled in 2008.



Table G (Geographic Notations)


The following Table G numbers were added.


III. UNITED STATES (as geographical area)
AN95 Northwestern United States
AP1 Pacific States
IV. AMERICAS
DA6 Antigua
DA95 Atlantic Islands
DD5 Dominica
DG1 Greenland
DG45 Guadeloupe
DS1 Saint Kitts and Nevis
DS12 Saint Lucia
DS15 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
VI. EUROPE
GS2 San Marino
GT7 Transcaucasia
GV2 Vatican City
VII. AFRICA
HA25 Southern Africa
HB7 Burkina Faso
VIII. MIDDLE EAST AND ASIA
JA12 Central Asia
JA14 Far East
JA25 Southeastern Asia
JA26 Western Asia
JB5 Bhutan
JB8 Burma
JO6 Oman
IX. AUSTRALASIA
KA1 Australasia
X. ISLANDS OF THE PACIFIC AND INDIAN OCEANS
LA3 Oceania
LA5 American Samoa
LG3 Guam
LI2 Independent State of Samoa
LM5 Melanesia
LP1 Palau
LS2 Samoa
LT6 Tonga
XI. INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES
ME8 European Union



The following Table G numbers were made obsolete.

OBSOLETE NOTATION
GEOGRAPHIC NAME
NEW NOTATION
 
EUROPE
 
GC8 Czechoslovakia None
GY8 Yugoslavia None
 
MIDDLE EAST AND ASIA
 
JA7 Arabia None
JM9 Myanmar JB8



Other Changes to the Schedule

Class number captions were also revised in other schedules. For example:

Instructional notes were added or modified to clarify classification practices as needed, e.g., a note was modified at WZ 290 to clarify the types of works to be classified there.

Changes to the Index

Seventy-one new index entries were created of which forty-one are from the 2008 MeSH; the remainder are MeSH terms from previous years. Numerous main index entries and cross references were modified to reflect changes in the MeSH vocabulary. In particular, some major categories of index terms affected by MeSH changes were:

Publication types, e.g.,

          Biography [Publication Type] to Biography

Topical terms that duplicate publication types, e.g.,

          Biography changed to Biography as Topic

All index entries pertaining to the aforementioned schedule additions and changes were modified.

To learn more about the NLM Classification see the Fact Sheet.



By Sharon R. Willis
Cataloging Section, Technical Services Division

Willis SR. NLM Classification 2008 Edition Now Available. NLM Tech Bull. 2008 Mar-Apr;(361):e17.

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