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January 04, 2005
PubMed Update
By Nancy Carter-Menendez, MLS
Information & Education Services Department
Cubby
Stand by for news about the exciting enhancements to Cubby that will be announced in the near future.
The New/Noteworthy link located on the blue sidebar on the left hand side of the PubMed screen under Entrez PubMed is an excellent way to keep up to date on PubMed news and changes.
In addition to the UCHC Library newsletter now available as a blog, other excellent resources providing updates about PubMed are the NLM Technical Bulletin and the NER’estah, the newsletter of the New England Regional Medical Library.
The most recent issue of the NLM Technical Bulletin, 2004 November-December, is now available at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/current_issue.html and the list of issues of the NER’estah is at http://nnlm.gov/ner/newsletter/index.html.
2005 MeSH
Year end processing has been completed by NLM and the 2005 MeSH is now in use. An article highlighting the additions, changes and deletions to the 2005 MeSH vocabulary is available in the NLM Technical Bulletin at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd04/nd04_mesh.html.
Index Medicus
The NLM will cease publishing the printed Index Medicus (IM) with the December 2004 edition (Volume 45). For the last 125 years the National Library of Medicine has been publishing the monthly printed Index Medicus. In 1836 Library of the Office of the Surgeon General of the Army (the present National Library of Medicine) was established. From about 1865 to 1895 John Shaw Billings, MD, (1838-1913) served as director of the Surgeon General’s Library, and was responsible for the publication of the printed Index Medicus beginning in 1879. According to NLM, use of the print IM has declined since MEDLINE became available in 1971.
Posted by Robert at January 4, 2005 11:26 AM