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Disaster Information Management Research Center (DIMRC)
The Disaster Information Management Research Center is planned to help with national emergency preparedness and response efforts. Embedded within NLM’'s Specialized Information Services (SIS) division, DIMRC is tasked with the collection, organization and dissemination of health information resources and informatics research related to disasters of natural, accidental, or deliberate origin.
MeSH Browser -- About the MeSH Browser
Definition of what the MeSH Browser is and what it can do.
NLM Fact Sheets
These are one-two page descriptions of NLM programs and services. See this web site for the extensive listing of these publications. Updated frequently and available for printing free of charge.
The Basics of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
This is a new web-based instructional resource about understanding the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®) and how to use them to search MEDLINE®/PubMed® for medical literature and information.
The user learns about:
the structure of the MeSH hierarchy, how indexers select terms when indexing articles for MEDLINE and how to use MeSH to search PubMed for treatment of chemical and drug terms
Advanced PubMed Searching Resource Packet
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.
Basic Internet FAQ for the medical librarian
Information on accessing the resources available on the Internet.
DOCLINE Best Practices for Users
Basic guidelines for providing quality DOCLINE services.
Evaluating Internet Resources
Fact sheet giving criteria for evaluating information found on the Internet.
Library LinkOut Survival Guide
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.
PubMed Search Tags & Field Qualifiers Guide
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.
Distance Education Resources
Brochure showing National Library of Medicine database tutorials and handouts.
