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Newly Maintained MEDLINE for 2012 MeSH Now Available in PubMed

Newly Maintained MEDLINE for 2012 MeSH Now Available in PubMed. NLM Tech Bull. 2011 Nov-Dec;(383):e13.

December 14, 2011 [posted]

As of December 13, PubMed® MEDLINE® citations, the MeSH® database, and the NLM® Catalog were updated to reflect 2012 MeSH. The MeSH translation tables were also updated on December 13. Now that end-of-year activities are complete, MEDLINE/PubMed may be searched using 2012 MeSH vocabulary. See MEDLINE Data Changes — 2012 for details on data changes as well as links to other pertinent MEDLINE and MeSH-related articles from the sidebar on the right. On December 13, NLM resumed daily (Tuesday-Saturday) MEDLINE updates to PubMed (including the backlog of citations indexed since November 16 with 2012 MeSH).