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Information Centers

Facilities for collecting and organizing information. They may be specialized by subject field, type of source material, persons served, location, or type of services.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

Structured Summary

Abstract

Facilities for collecting and organizing information. They may be specialized by subject field, type of source material, persons served, location, or type of services.

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Synonyms

4 entry terms
  • Center, Information
  • Centers, Information
  • Information Center
  • Family Planning Information Centers

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Aspects Covered

10 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, supply & distribution, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

medical information centers: do not coordinate with MEDICINE

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History Note

76; was NON MESH before 1976

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Previous Indexing

  • Information Services (1966-1975)

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  1. J03.400w
  2. L01w.462w.625w

AMA Style

References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Information Centers. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D007253. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D007253
  2. Information Centers. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_centre
  3. Information Centers. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6031029