Register Now for Two January Webinars: 2019 MeSH Highlights and PubMed Searching Impacts

Posted by Alan Carr on December 11th, 2018 Posted in: Education & Training, NLM Resources, PubMed, Search Tools

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Join the National Library of Medicine and NNLM Training Office for two events in January 2019, covering an introduction to 2019 Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) and adjusting to MeSH changes in PubMed searches and alerts.

1. NLM Webinar: 2019 MeSH Highlights
   Date and time: Friday, January 4, 2019, 10:00 – 10:30 AM PST
   Join NLM staff for a highlight tour of the 2019 Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). A 20-minute presentation will feature:
   • Addition of systematic reviews publication type
   • Additional clinical trial publication types
   • Subheading changes for manpower, secretion, and utilization
   • Additional terminology for data, neoplasms, and other topics.

   Following the presentation, Indexing and MeSH experts will be available to answer your questions.

2. NNLM Webinar: MeSH Changes and PubMed Searching
   Date and time: Friday, January 11, 2019, 8:00 – 9:30 AM PST
   Every year, the Medical Subject Headings are updated. Join this session to learn:
   • How does this affect your PubMed searches?
   • What happens when a term gets changed, or added, or removed; or moved to a different part of the MeSH hierarchy?
   • How do you accommodate vocabulary changes over time in your comprehensive searches?
   • How do you check your saved searches and alerts?

   This class includes some content from the class Advanced PubMed: MeSH.