MeSH on Demand (product review)
Angélique Roy · 2023
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Description
Angelique Roy reviews MeSH on Demand, a free tool that tags medical text with subject headings automatically, in work from twenty twenty-three. Indexing articles by hand is slow and demands specialist vocabulary. The National Library of Medicine launched the tool years ago. Users paste an abstract and wait under a minute. Matching subject terms appear beside the highlighted phrases.
Hovering shows each term's official definition for checking. Clicking opens the full vocabulary record in the browser. The tool also lists similar articles from the literature database. Related headings mined from those articles appear as extras. Longer texts simply take a little longer to process. Librarians and authors gain a fast first-pass indexer.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Angélique Roy |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 8 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |