Video on MeSH - Medical Subject Headings

So you want to search the largest bibliographic database in the fieldof Medicne i.e. PubMed. Let me tell you that you need Knowledge ofMeSH for better precision and recall [1] in your search results. The bad news is that MeSH is not easy to learn. But the good news is that US National Library of Medicine hasproduced a 12-minute video on MeSH. It is on development, structureand use of the MeSH vocabulary. This video is available on the NLM Web site in three formats:Macromedia Flash (60MB), Apple QuickTime (100), and Windows Mediaformats (30MB). [So try only if you have a broadband connection] http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/video/ References:1. http://www.hsl.creighton.edu/hsl/Searching/Recall-Precision.html ---Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://indmed.nic.in http://medind.nic.in http://openmed.nic.in
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