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Databases, Factual

"Databases, Factual" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Extensive collections, reputedly complete, of facts and data garnered from material of a specialized subject area and made available for analysis and application. The collection can be automated by various contemporary methods for retrieval. The concept should be differentiated from DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC which is restricted to collections of bibliographic references.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Databases, Factual" by people in this website by year, and whether "Databases, Factual" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 633 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 62 publications in 2016
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