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New Version of the NLM Gateway

New Version of the NLM Gateway. NLM Technical Bulletin. 2000 Nov–Dec;(317):e1.

December 21, 2000 [posted]

A new version of the NLM Gateway has been released with some notable changes.

  • A new collection, "AIDS Meetings", has been added to the NLM Gateway in the Meeting Abstracts category. The AIDS Meetings collection has the meeting abstracts from the XIII International AIDS Conference held in Durban, South Africa, July 9-14, 2000. These are not MeSH indexed. Please note that the document collection formerly referred to as "AIDS Meetings" has been renamed "AIDS Meetings (with MeSH)."
  • A change has been made in searching by field qualifiers. In the new release, all field qualifiers should be entered after the search term or terms, and must be entered after each term, for example: "macular degeneration" [mh]. This is consistent with the method used in PubMed. Previously, field qualifiers were entered before the search term or terms, and the field qualifier applied to the search terms that followed it until a new field qualifier was entered.
  • The Login page and the Create New User ID page for the Locker and Preferences features have been redesigned.
  • On the Limits screen, the default ending publication year (if not specified by the user) is the current year. Previously the default ending publication year was the beginning publication year.

In addition, some software bugs were fixed, and changes to the underlying system were made to improve Gateway functionality and efficiency. Comments and questions are always welcome, and may be sent to gateway@nlm.nih.gov.