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Newly Maintained MEDLINE for 2020 MeSH Now Available in PubMed

Newly Maintained MEDLINE for 2020 MeSH Now Available in PubMed. NLM Tech Bull. 2019 Nov-Dec;(431):b13.

December 18, 2019 [posted]

As of December 16, 2020, MEDLINE/PubMed citations and the MeSH translation tables were updated to reflect 2020 MeSH with full searching functionality for Supplementary Concept Record (SCR) data and mapping in place. The citations newly indexed with 2020 MeSH since December 4, 2019, are available in PubMed for searching. NLM has resumed daily MEDLINE updates to PubMed.

Now that end-of-year activities are complete, MEDLINE/PubMed may be searched using 2020 MeSH vocabulary.

See MEDLINE Data Changes—2020 for details on the data changes.

Other pertinent articles:

• 2020 MeSH Classes: Highlights, Changes and PubMed Searching

• Cataloging and Metadata News—2020

• 2020 MeSH Headings Available in the MeSH Browser

• MEDLINE/PubMed Year-End Processing Activities for 2020