Remote Access MicroMeSH: A Microcomputer System for Searching the MEDLINE Database.

This paper describes Remote Access - MicroMeSH (RAMM) a powerful but easy to use microcomputer system for searching the medical literature. RAMM uses MicroMeSH [1], a system for accessing the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) vocabulary, to facilitate off-line creation and refinement of highly specific MEDLINE search queries. Using these queries RAMM automatically searches and retrieves citations from the MEDLINE databases through the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System (MEDLARS). RAMM is used by both staff and students at Harvard Medical School. As search query creation and citation review are performed off-line the cost of on-line searching in minimized.