The National Library of Medicine, producer of the Medline/PubmMed database, has implemented modifications to the search engine to produce more inclusive search results. Two new capabilities of have been tested, and are now launched for general use: automated term matching (“ATM”) and Citation Sensor. In the past when there were conflicts of specific metadata, like journal names, with MESH terms, searches frequently failed and returned a nul result. With ATM these conflicts have now been resolved. The second new capability, Citation Sensor, now recognizes citation elements like year, volume, and issue number, when you type a string of search terms, and will attempt to match them directly to a specific article. For a complete discussion of these changes read the National Library of Medicine’s latest Technical Bulletin.
