MeSH Publication Types (aka genre/forms)

[NancyJean]

MeSH Publication Types (PTs) are genre/form terms that can be identified in MeSH RDF by "@type" : "http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/vocab#PublicationType", NLM uses these MeSH PTs in its cataloging rather than LC genre/form terms. While we can add a MeSH lookup for genre/form in our profiles that searches the entire MeSH vocab, it would be more useful if that MeSH genre/form lookup could be limited to MeSH PTs. See http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D020463 for an example MeSH PT

[sfolsom]

@elrayle @eichmann sounds like this is a request for a subauth that limits to only genres (http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/vocab#PublicationType)

[NancyJean]

Yes, exactly. Not sure it's in scope, but it's important for institutions that use MeSH genres/publication types (like NLM :-)). I don't know how else a user would be able to cull the genres/pub types out from the rest of MeSH without this change.