This article collects the notable data changes made to MEDLINE during annual National Library of Medicine (NLM) maintenance known as Year-End Processing (YEP) for 2016:
MEDLINE Data Changes — 2016
Tybaert S. NLM Tech Bull. 2015 Nov-Dec;(407):e8.
2015 December 08 [posted]
- MeSH Vocabulary Updated for 2016
- Updated MeSH in MEDLINE Citations
- New MeSH Headings
- Changes to MeSH Headings
- Brand New Concepts
- Changes of particular interest
- MeSH Publication Types
- MeSH Qualifier (Subheading) Deletion
- MeSH Tree Changes
- MeSH Annotation Projects
- Other Changes: One Concept Split into Two
- Entry Combination Revisions
- Structured Abstracts
- OLDMEDLINE MeSH Mapping
- MEDLINE Journal Title Updates
- MEDLINE Country of Publication
- PubMed Notes
Brand new concepts include: Autism Spectrum Disorder, Human Embryonic Stem Cells, Olive Oil, Origin of Life, Open Access Publishing, War-Related Injuries, RNAi Therapeutics, and many more terms. Medline thesaurus terms are remapped when changes occur, so as to include articles under former headings.