MeSH

Question 1

PubMed is an — for searching 30 million journal articles in two databases

Answer 1

interface

Question 2

Medline
(3)

Answer 2

-over 26 million references
-from 2,500 journals
-subject headings are included

Question 3

PubMed Central
(2)

Answer 3

• PDFs from NIH funded research
• may not include subject headings

Question 4

MeSH terms are a special vocabulary used to

Answer 4

index (tag)
catalog (shelve)
search (retrieve)

Question 5

index

Answer 5

a subject specialist reads the article and assigns MeSH terms to the electronic record

Question 6

cataloging

Answer 6

organizes articles by their MeSH

Question 7

searching

Answer 7

enter the MeSH in the search strategy
find articles