This project involves indexing of biomedical journals for Index Medicus and MEDLINE, using the policies and procedures detailed in the MEDLARS Indexing Manual, the Automated Indexing and Management System Manual and various technical memoranda. The majority of these articles are in English, Russian, German, French, Japanese, Italian, and Spanish. Subject areas include medicine, biochemistry, veterinary medicine, physiology, immunology, parasitology and pharmacology. The contractor will also provide indexing for a small number of audiotapes, abstracts for the DentalProj database of the National Institute of Dental Research, abstracts of the 1992 and 1993 International Conferences on AIDS for AIDSLINE and indexing of chemical queries. The indexing process involves the intellectual analysis of biomedical journal articles for subject content and the application of appropriate subject headings drawn from Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). Indexers also translate foreign language titles and transliterature the authors and titles of journal articles that are in certain non-Roman scripts. All indexers must have been trained by NLM. Most indexing will be performed online, using the interactive online indexing system, which provides validations against the MeSH vocabulary file, various indexing rules and a dictionary file for terms in titles and abstracts. Contract indexers will use government-supplied terminals and modems to dial into the NLM online indexing system. Contract indexers must process work in a timely manner, returning completed journals within one week of receipt, in order to meet the Index Section's goals for currency of citations in Index Medicus and MEDLINE.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Type
Research and Development Contracts (N01)
Project #
N01LM013522-006
Application #
3663292
Study Section
Project Start
1991-06-01
Project End
1994-03-31
Budget Start
1994-03-10
Budget End
1994-03-31
Support Year
Fiscal Year
1994
Total Cost
Indirect Cost
Name
Herner and Company
Department
Type
DUNS #
City
Arlington
State
VA
Country
United States
Zip Code
22201
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