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Output of NLM Subject Headings in the Conventional String
Printer-friendly VersionQuestion: Why did NLM decide to output its subject headings in the conventional string?
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- - based on advice received from a number of medical libraries, NLM recombines topical subject headings, geographic descriptors, and publicaton types (PTs, aka form divisions) to form the conventional subject heading string in MARC records distributed to licensees.
- - the instructions on how to recombine main headings or main headings and topical subject headings, geographics and publication types (PTs, aka form divisions) are given in Application of MeSH for Medical Catalogers at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/cataloging/catmesh.html
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Last updated: 06 May 2004
First published: 01 January 1998
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