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2023 MeSH headings update

By Jane Falconer · December 15, 2022 · Databases, Systematic Review · No comments

Each year, the National Library of Medicine updates the MeSH headings used to tag and index items added to the Medline or PubMed database. This is to update the terminology to keep up with changes in practice and also to edit any terms which have been found to be problematic…

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How do I search Medline before 1946?

By Jane Falconer · April 3, 2014 · Uncategorised · No comments

I was recently asked this question by a student who was rather surprised by my answer. I took the student up to the Library’s Wellcome Gallery where we looked at print copies of Index Medicus, going back to volume one, printed in 1879.

Index Medicus was published every month…

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