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Abstracts
MeSH HeadingAbstracts
Tree NumberV01.070
Tree NumberV02.035
Annotationthis heading is used as a Publication Type. Used by catalogers only. CATALOG: Use for annotated bibliographies. Do not also use Publication Type BIBLIOGRAPHY. Do not use for meeting abstracts. Use instead Publication Type CONGRESSES. Abstracts as a subject are indexed under the main heading ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING AS TOPIC
Scope NoteWorks consisting of lists of publications on a subject and that provide full annotated bibliographical information together with substantive summaries or condensations of the facts, ideas, or opinions presented in each publication listed. (From LC Subject Cataloging Manual)
See AlsoBibliography
See AlsoIndexes
See AlsoResource Guides
History Note2008(1999)
Date of Entry19980603
Unique IDD020504


MeSH Tree Structures

 
Publication Components [V01]
Abstracts [V01.070]
Advertisements [V01.100]
Animation [V01.110]
Architectural Drawings [V01.140]
Bibliography [V01.165]  +
Biography [V01.175]
Book Illustrations [V01.185]  +
Bookplates [V01.195]
Charts [V01.200]
Comment [V01.205]
Editorial [V01.250]
English Abstract [V01.260]
Letter [V01.445]
News [V01.630]
Patient Education Handout [V01.665]
Published Erratum [V01.700]
Retraction of Publication [V01.775]

 
Publication Formats [V02]
Abbreviations [V02.025]
Abstracts [V02.035]
Academic Dissertations [V02.050]
Account Books [V02.060]
Addresses [V02.070]  +
Advertisements [V02.100]
Almanacs [V02.110]
Anecdotes [V02.115]
Animation [V02.120]
Annual Reports [V02.130]
Aphorisms and Proverbs [V02.135]
Architectural Drawings [V02.140]
Atlases [V02.150]
Bibliography [V02.165]  +
Biography [V02.170]  +
Book Reviews [V02.180]
Broadsides [V02.200]
Caricatures [V02.225]
Cartoons [V02.235]
Catalogs [V02.240]  +
Charts [V02.245]
Chronology [V02.250]
Classical Article [V02.255]
Collected Works [V02.260]  +
Collections [V02.265]
Comment [V02.267]
Congresses [V02.270]  +
Corrected and Republished Article [V02.275]
Database [V02.300]
Diaries [V02.305]
Dictionary [V02.310]  +
Directory [V02.312]
Documentaries and Factual Films [V02.315]
Duplicate Publication [V02.320]
Editorial [V02.335]
Encyclopedias [V02.350]
Ephemera [V02.355]  +
Essays [V02.365]
Eulogies [V02.375]  +
Exhibitions [V02.415]
Fictional Works [V02.450]
Forms [V02.460]
Government Publications [V02.500]
Guidebooks [V02.510]
Guideline [V02.515]  +
Handbooks [V02.520]
Historical Article [V02.530]  +
Humor [V02.540]  +
Indexes [V02.550]
Instruction [V02.575]  +
Journal Article [V02.600]  +
Laboratory Manuals [V02.605]
Legal Cases [V02.610]
Legislation [V02.620]
Letter [V02.625]
Manuscripts [V02.630]
Meeting Abstracts [V02.650]
Monograph [V02.660]  +
News [V02.665]
Newspaper Article [V02.667]
Outlines [V02.670]
Overall [V02.672]  +
Patents [V02.675]
Periodical Index [V02.682]
Periodicals [V02.690]
Pharmacopoeias [V02.695]  +
Pictorial Works [V02.700]  +
Popular Works [V02.725]  +
Published Erratum [V02.737]
Resource Guides [V02.750]
Retracted Publication [V02.800]
Retraction of Publication [V02.825]
Review [V02.912]  +
Statistics [V02.956]
Tables [V02.978]
Technical Report [V02.989]
Unedited Footage [V02.994]
Union Lists [V02.997]
Unpublished Works [V02.998]

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