EHSLibrary » MeSH http://library.med.utah.edu/blog/eccles Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library Blog Fri, 17 May 2013 19:45:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Upcoming webinar for librarians http://library.med.utah.edu/blog/eccles/2012/01/09/upcoming-webinar-for-librarians/ http://library.med.utah.edu/blog/eccles/2012/01/09/upcoming-webinar-for-librarians/#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:18:54 +0000 Todd Vandenbark http://library.med.utah.edu/blog/eccles/?p=1343 For librarians logoDo you serve pre-med, nursing, or health sciences students? Do you have faculty or students asking for help on how to identify the latest research on a given health topic? Need a refresher on PubMed so you can effectively aid your users with their literature searching? Then join us on Wednesday, February 8, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. MDT (11:00 a.m. Central) for a one-hour online session presented by Rebecca Brown, a trainer for the National Library of Medicine Training Center, Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library. Rebecca will discuss how to keep current with changes in PubMed, tips on how to use many of PubMed’s special features, explain and explore PubMed’s controlled vocabulary (MeSH), and more! Also learn whom you can contact to get help when you are stumped with a search.

Here are the details:

  • “Refresh and Extend Your Health Literature Search Skills to Better Support your Users: PubMed Update” webinar
  • Date: Wednesday, February 8, 2012
  • Time: 10:00 a.m. MDT (11:00 a.m. Central)
  • Presenter: Rebecca Brown, National Library of Medicine Training Center
  • Be sure to read the equipment requirements and login information prior to the start of the webinar.
  • Questions? Contact Todd Vandenbark, Web Services Librarian, Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, 801-581-5263, email:  email Todd Vandenbark
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As noted on the MCR News blog, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) is marking the 50th anniversary of the creation of MeSH. What is it?

“MeSH is the National Library of Medicine’s controlled vocabulary thesaurus. It consists of sets of terms naming descriptors in a hierarchical structure that permits searching at various levels of specificity” (From the NLM website).

How is it used?

“The MeSH thesaurus is used by NLM for indexing articles from 5,400 of the world’s leading biomedical journals for the MEDLINE/PubMED® database. It is also used for the NLM-produced database that includes cataloging of books, documents, and audiovisuals acquired by the Library. Each bibliographic reference is associated with a set of MeSH terms that describe the content of the item. Similarly, search queries use MeSH vocabulary to find items on a desired topic (Also from the NLM website).”

On Thursday, November 18, 2010, at 2:00 pm Eastern (12:00 pm Mountain) time the NLM will be presenting a videocast (with captioning) by Robert Braude, PhD, on “The impact of the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) vocabulary on access to biomedical information.”

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