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The Literature of Medicine |15 May 1996

Reviews and Notes: UNESCO Thesaurus: A Structured List of Descriptors for Indexing and Retrieving Literature in the Fields of Education, Science, Social and Human Science, Culture, Communication and Information

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705 pages. Paris: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organizations; 1995. $75.00. ISBN 92-3-003100-3. Order phone 800-274-4888.
Persons and institutions in the United States needing a comprehensive system of information classification can draw on library classification schemes such as that of the Library of Congress and the Dewey decimal system. However, they may find these schemes inadequate for topics of international importance. The UNESCO system is a good alternative, but the adequate representation of medical topics would be inadequate if the user relied solely on the medical sciences section; the user has to draw from the adjacent sections on biology...
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Reviews and Notes: UNESCO Thesaurus: A Structured List of Descriptors for Indexing and Retrieving Literature in the Fields of Education, Science, Social and Human Science, Culture, Communication and Information. Ann Intern Med. 1996;124:938. doi: https://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-124-10-199605150-00048

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Published: Ann Intern Med. 1996;124(10):938.

DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-124-10-199605150-00048

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