When we think of the National Library of Medicine, USA, we think of PubMed. But the NLM has so much more to offer. One interesting resource is - Open-i  - a service that enables search and retrieval of abstracts and images from the open source literature, and biomedical image collections. This includes charts, graphs, clinical images, and more.  You could search by text queries or even query images. Open-i provides access to over 1.6 million images from about 580,000 PubMedCentral articles and 7,470 chest x-rays with 3,955 radiology reports. Have fun going through this massive collection, and for the terms of…

 Wish to find out what journals are available in your specialty? Start your search at the US National Library of Medicine's web page - Broad Subject Terms for Indexed Journals. Click on any specialty to see the list of journals that are included in the NCBI databases. If you wish to limit your search to those that are indexed for Medline, then click the link on the right side - "Currently indexed in Medline"If you wish to run a PubMed search for one or more journal titles, then select them, and click Add to Search builder, and then Search PubMed. 

The MeSH on demand Tool is an easy way to identify relevant MeSH Terms - either for single terms, or for entire paragraphs. You just enter your terms or a paragraph in a box and click "Find MeSH Terms".  Why or when should you use this? If you are submitting an article for publication, you could paste text here and figure out which terms show up for each paragraph, and then choose the ones coming up most, as keywords. If you are looking for MeSH Terms to do a search, and do not find them in the MeSH Database, you…