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Medical Subject Headings Used to Search the Biomedical Literature

Author(s) -

Margaret H. Coletti,

H. L. Bleich

Publication year - 2001

Publication title -

journal of the american medical informatics association

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.614

H-Index - 150

eISSN - 1527-974X

pISSN - 1067-5027

DOI - 10.1136/jamia.2001.0080317

Subject(s) - national library , medline , subject (documents) , controlled vocabulary , medical literature , bibliographic database , computer science , information retrieval , world wide web , medical library , library science , medicine , political science , pathology , law

The National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE (MEDLARS Online) database was the first database to be searched nationwide via value-added telecommunication networks. Now available on the World Wide Web free of charge from the National Library of Medicine and from many other sources, it is the world's most heavily used medical database. MEDLINE is unique in that each reference to the medical literature is indexed under a controlled vocabulary called Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). These headings are the keys that unlock the medical literature. MeSH multiplies the usefulness of the MEDLINE database and makes it possible to search the medical literature as we do today. This paper commemorates the 40th anniversary of the introduction of MeSH and salutes some of the farsighted persons who conceived and developed the MEDLINE database.

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