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MEDLINE®/PubMed® Data Element Descriptions Available

MEDLINE/PubMed Data Element Descriptions Available. NLM Tech Bull. 2005 Nov-Dec;(347):b1.

November 04, 2005 [posted]

Detailed descriptions of the major fields in the MEDLINE display format for PubMed MEDLINE records are in a new document entitled MEDLINE® /PubMed® Data Element Descriptions, available at //www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/mms/medlineelements.html. This document may be useful to anyone seeking information regarding the data in MEDLINE/PubMed records. The document reflects the 2005 fields, and will be maintained and updated as the data changes. Some of the fields on this list are searchable in PubMed. For searching instructions or more information, see the Search Field Descriptions and Tags section of PubMed Help.