January/February 2002
volume 11, issue 1

In this issue:

Where Have All the Databases Gone?
 
Announcing ILL Web Delivery from the UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library!
 
What is Web Delivery Anyway?
 
Announcing the New Savitt Medical Library Facility
 
We'll Meet You There!
 
Medical Subject Headings Home Page
 
Late Night Reading: Medical Subject Headings 2002
 
Systematic Reviews
 
NLM Funds Three Internet Connection Grants in the Pacific Southwest Region
 
Membership Renewal Update
 
NLM Technical Bulletin Highlights
 

In every issue:

Table of Contents for the NLM Technical Bulletin
 
Upcoming Events - 2002
 
Publication Information

Highlights from the November - December 2001 issue of the NLM Technical Bulletin:

Here are brief highlights of gems from the Tech Bulletin. You will find more detail in the Bulletin itself!

Changes in the Treatment of Chemical Data in MEDLINE: MEDLINE citations back through 1966 with a Category D (chemical) MeSH term now have an associated Registry Number (RN) field with the number and the name of the substance (NM). Hurrah for chemical searchers!

Sending NLM Gateway Results via Email: Does this new feature for the NLM Gateway mean that emailing results from PubMed may not be far behind? But until that happens, check out this new functionality on the Gateway!

Indexing the Events of September 11, 2001 and Bioterrorism for MEDLINE: Technical Memorandum 432 provides explicit instructions to indexers - and hence serves as an aid to searchers - for handling articles about the terrorist attacks on September 11 and about bioterrorism. We will not lose what we have learned no matter how much we wish it had not happened.

Revising PubMed Cubby Stored Searches: Do you have stored searches saved in your Cubby? Have you taught your library users to do the same? You need to examine the 2002 MeSH to see if changes are needed to the searches you have stored in your Cubby. Cubby Stored Searches cannot be edited, but this article explains how to revise a strategy, re-store it, and also how to delete the old strategy.

Name Changes for PubMed Fields: NCBI has standardized the names of fields for the Entrez databases, including PubMed. The following changes have been made on the pull-down menu on the Preview/Index screen and also the Fields pull-down menu on the Limits screen.

The new field names have been added as search tags, and the old search tags remain in use. No changes have been made to the display tags used in the MEDLINE and XML formats. PubMed's Help has been updated.  JKK

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