It's almost that time of year again, when NLM does its year-end maintenance. NLM will be changing the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH® ) on existing MEDLINE citations to conform with the 2006 version of MeSH, and performing other global changes. On November 17, 2005 NLM will temporarily halt the addition of fully-indexed MEDLINE citations to PubMed.

December 2005 (tentative date) the normal MEDLINE/PubMed update schedule will resume, and PubMed will use 2006 vocabulary in the MeSH translation tables and MeSH database, as well as in the citation data.

Remember: "In-process" citations will continue to be added to PubMed and you may need to change your search strategies to find the most recent articles in PubMed until the update is complete.

For more information on the NLM update:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so05/so05_end_year.html

This is also a good time to look over all of your SDIs and saved searches that you are sending/emailing to your patrons on a regular basis. Send them a quick note asking them if they are still interested in receiving the research and if they would like to make any adjustments to their current search or if they would like to add new ones.