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Medical Subject Headings and Classification

 

Subjects

National Library of Medicine, Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®)
    Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) home page.

National Library of Medicine, Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®): 1998 MeSH Tree Structures
    MeSH Tree Structures is a listing of the hierarchical structure.

National Library of Medicine, Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®): Fact Sheet
    The fact sheet tells about the construction of the MeSH thesaurus, explains MeSH applications, talks about establishing and updating MeSH headings and gives a listing of MeSH publications.

National Library of Medicine, Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®): Files Available to Download
    Listing ASCII, MARC formatted versions of the entire MeSH vocabulary and updates are available to be downloaded.

National Library of Medicine, Medical Subject Headings Browser
    Put in search term, select "All of the above" as well as"Find terms with ALL fragments". The results will map you to the correct MeSH as well as give you a list of acceptable qualifiers. In addition a scope note is provided for the heading.

Application of MeSH for Medical Catalogers
    With 1999 MESH and the implementation of Voyager, the Cataloging Section has moved to harmonize its practices for subject heading content with NLM's indexing practices. In NLM LOCATORplus, NLM's web-based catalog, main headings or main heading and topical subheading combinations no longer are qualified by geographic, form, or language subheadings.

Northwestern University's mapping of LCSH and MeSH
    LCSH/MeSH mapping data are available for downloading from the Northwestern University Library's public http site.The files are:
    Lcsh200601.ZIP (containing 12,672 records, size 6.8 MB unzipped)
    Mesh200601.ZIP (containing 11,478 records, size 11.6 MB unzipped)

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    Classification

    National Library of Medicine Classification
    http://wwwcf.nlm.nih.gov/class

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