Falcone, Maria Alessandra

Ferrari, Paola

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News from the MeSH Special Interest GroupMeSH terms – emerging specific concepts in the Subject Index of theISS LibraryMaria Alessandra Falcone, Paola FerrariLibrary, Istituto Superiore di Sanità Rome, ItalyContact: alessandra.falcone@iss.it; paola.ferrari@iss.itThe Library of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS) – the Italian National Institute of Health – is specialized inscientific documentation in the field of biomedicine. The semantic indexing of scientific documents is in Italian andis based on the Italian MeSH Translation. In 2001, when Subject Indexing underwent a systematic thorough revision,it was decided to use almost solely the translated MeSH terminology. New MeSH concepts have been added to thesubject indexing in those cases where suitable specific terms did not exist in our archives to describe the topics to beindexed.Laboratory researchers and university students are the main users of the ISS Library and they consider the ItalianMeSH translation invaluable. The pie chart below (Fig. 1) shows the percentages of the sources of the terms of theISS Library Subject Headings: 80% derive from the MeSH Thesaurus and of the remaining 20%, 15% were takenfrom the Library of Congress (LC) and 5% from other Italian directories which comprehend specific terms from otherdisciplines not included in the MeSH.The checklist below (Table 1) shows some of the Italian and English MeSH terms which have been added to theSubject Index over the last 3 years: 2011-2013. All the terms in the MeSH Tree Structure belong to the Chemical andDrugs [D] category, which presents the highest number of new subjects in our archives.We would also like to point out that although periodicals are not indexed, it seems clear that our researchers’ interestis in line with the ISS research policy that comprises experiments, testing, consulting and research on drugs and onchemical substances.Fig. 1. ISS Library Subject Headings sources.Journal of  the European Association for Health Information and Libraries 2014, Vol. 10 (1) 45News from EAHILThe subject indexers consider the use of MeSH terminology fundamental to describe new scientific topics.Italian English  Adenosina deaminasi Adenosine Deaminase Agenti inattivatori del complemento Complement Inactivating Agents Beta-lattamasi beta-Lactamases Biomarcatori farmacologici Biomarkers, Pharmacological Caveoline Caveolins Complessi metallici Coordination Complexes Eparina Heparin Fattori della ribosilazione ADP ADP-Ribosylation Factors Fuliggine Soot Glucuronidasi Glucuronidase Inattivatori del complemento Complement Inactivator Proteins Istone deacetilasi Histone Deacetylases Librerie di piccole molecole Small Molecule Libraries Materia medica Materia Medica Misture complesse Complex Mixtures Precursori delle proteine Protein Precursors Proteasi della cisteina Cysteine Proteases Recettori degli acidi cainici Receptors, Kainic Acid Recettori muscarinici Receptors, Muscarinic Ricina Ricin Sfingosina Sphingosine Table. 1. Checklist of new MeSH terms in the Chemicals and Drugs [D] CATEGORY inthe ISS Library Subject Index from 2011- 2013.Journal of  the European Association for Health Information and Libraries 2014, Vol. 10 (1) 46Maria Alessandra Falcone, Paola Ferrari

News from the MeSH Special Interest Group MeSH terms – emerging specific concepts in the Subject Index of the ISS Library

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News from the MeSH Special Interest Group MeSH terms – emerging specific concepts in the Subject Index of the ISS Library

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