The National Library of Medicine has announced the launch of MeSH on Demand, a new feature that uses the NLM Medical Text Indexer (MTI) to find MeSH terms.
Currently, the MeSH Browser allows for searches of MeSH terms, text-word searches of the Annotation and Scope Note, and searches of various fields for chemicals. These searches assume that users are familiar with MeSH terms and using the MeSH Browser.
MeSH on Demand addresses the need to find MeSH terms directly from the text such as an abstract or grant summary. This new feature has been developed in close collaboration with MeSH Section, NLM Index Section, and the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications.
MeSH on Demand can be used to find MeSH terms relevant to your text up to 10,000 characters. One of the strengths of MeSH on Demand is its ease of use without any prior knowledge of the MeSH vocabulary and without any downloads.
