Abstract

Participants will be introduced to MEDLINE, the major data base of the medical literature analysis and retrieval system of the National Library of Medicine (NLM). This computerized data base contains citations of articles drawn from 3000 journals worldwide. It can be searched online at computer terminals either independently or with the assistance of technical information specialists located at over 800 online centers in the United States. MEDLINE citations include author, title, source, and abstract which can be retrieved on a topic.The Communicative Disorders Program, NINCDS, in cooperation with NLM, improved MEDLINE coverage of communicative disorders by increasing the number of journals and the specificity of indexing terms in these fields. A users' manual and thesaurus have been written to guide communicative disorders specialists in conducting searches on over 2000 topics.Participants will learn how to use MEDLINE to meet their own literature retrieval needs. The workshop will demonstrate the design...

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