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There are 6 fact sheet resources listed in the NTCC Clearinghouse that have been published by NN/LM staff:

1. Title: Advanced PubMed Searching Resource Packet
   URL: http://nnlm.gov/training/resources/pubmedpacket.doc
   Languages: English
   Audience: Health Professionals
   Audience: Information Professionals
   Description: This Word document provides charts for MeSH subheading abbreviations (including major search tags and field qualifiers), subset codes, publication types and stop words. Links to the original location in the PubMed Help manual are included. The entire packet or individual pages may be used as a handout or factsheet in advanced PubMed classes. (Clearinghouse record last modified on March 18th, 2008)
2. Title: Basic Internet FAQ for the medical librarian
   URL: http://nnlm.gov/scr/training/internetfaq1.html
   Languages: English
   Audience: Public
   Audience: Health Professionals
   Audience: Information Professionals
   Description: Information on accessing the resources available on the Internet. (Clearinghouse record last modified on June 15th, 2006)
3. Title: DOCLINE Best Practices for Users
   URL: http://nnlm.gov/rsdd/docline/bestpractices.html
   Languages: English
   Audience: Information Professionals
   Description: Basic guidelines for providing quality DOCLINE services. (Clearinghouse record last modified on September 11th, 2007)
4. Title: Evaluating Internet Resources
   URL: http://nnlm.gov/scr/training/evaluation.html
   Languages: English
   Audience: Public
   Audience: Health Professionals
   Audience: Information Professionals
   Description: Fact sheet giving criteria for evaluating information found on the Internet. (Clearinghouse record last modified on September 5th, 2006)
5. Title: Library LinkOut Survival Guide
   URL: http://nnlm.gov/rsdd/linkout/
   Languages: English
   Audience: Public
   Audience: Health Professionals
   Audience: Information Professionals
   Description: LinkOut is the PubMed program that allows publishers and aggregators (providers) to display the links to full text and other resources you see on PubMed citations. A component of this program, LinkOut for Libraries, enables libraries to display their icons on the Abstract and Citation formats in PubMed. This allows patrons of participating libraries to see which articles they can obtain electronically in full text and link to them directly. (Clearinghouse record last modified on September 24th, 2008)
6. Title: PubMed Search Tags & Field Qualifiers Guide
   URL: http://nnlm.gov/ner/training/material/PubMedFieldTags.doc
   Languages: English
   Audience: Public
   Audience: Health Professionals
   Audience: Information Professionals
   Description: This guide (in .doc Microsoft Word format) lists the major search tags and field qualifiers for advanced PubMed searching for easy reference. The guide is intended to be customized with your library's logo and contact information, folded in half and laminated. It also makes a nice one page handout. Or better yet... customize it and post it on your Web site. (Clearinghouse record last modified on April 11th, 2007)