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Release of 2025 MeSH XML, RDF and ASCII Datasets

Release of 2025 MeSH XML, RDF and ASCII Datasets. NLM Tech Bull. 2024 Nov-Dec;(461):b14.

December 16, 2024 [posted]

Production year 2025 MeSH in XML, RDF and ASCII have been released and are available for download from the National Library of Medicine (NLM). These include the 2025 Descriptors, Qualifiers, and SCRs. NLM has already released the 2025 MeSH DTDs, all of which have a file name ending in "recordset_20250101.dtd".

Download MeSH Data

As always, we recommend you reference and use the production year DTD with the same production year dataset. The DTDs can be found at the bottom of the left column of the Download MeSH Data page on NLM's Data Distribution.

If you decide to link to MeSH or Data Discovery:

MeSH Home

Annual MeSH Processing (AMP)