Medline base – CD - rom – retrieval

Scientific information has been growing at an exponential level, and each year over 300.000 references are added to Medline base. There is now a growing interest on the bioinformatics researches to find ways to improve the ability to find relevant documents in the literature and to extract specific kinds of information from these documents (1,2). Medline, one of the gamestones of medical scientific information system is a mainstay of medical research, esspecialy for current information (3). The aim of this paper was to stress the importance of the Medline base and MESH thesaurus controlled vocabulary of the descriptors for retrieving, indexing and cataloging in providing the exact match of the documents specified in the users request, and most precise descriptors for indexing and cataloging that provide documents more retrievable in common librarian practice.