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Newly Maintained MEDLINE for 2018 MeSH Now Available in PubMed

Newly Maintained MEDLINE for 2018 MeSH Now Available in PubMed. NLM Tech Bull. 2017 Nov-Dec;(419):b7.

2017 November 29 [posted]

As of November 27, PubMed/MEDLINE citations and the MeSH translation tables were updated to reflect 2018 MeSH with full searching functionality for Supplementary Concept Record (SCR) data and mapping in place on November 28. The citations newly indexed with 2018 MeSH since November 13 were available in PubMed for searching on November 29.

Now that end-of-year activities are complete, MEDLINE/PubMed may be searched using 2018 MeSH vocabulary. See MEDLINE Data Changes — 2018 for details on the data changes. NLM has resumed daily MEDLINE updates to PubMed.

Other pertinent articles:

What's New for 2018 MeSH

2018 MeSH Available for Download

Cataloging and Metadata News—2018

MEDLINE Data Changes—2018

2018 MeSH Headings Available in the MeSH Browser

MEDLINE/PubMed Year-End Processing Activities for 2018

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