RESEARCH/R&D
BabelMeSH
Project link: https://pubmedhh.nlm.nih.gov/babelmesh/index.php
These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.
BabelMeSH is a multi-language tool for searching MEDLINE/PubMed. Features include:
- It intended for users whose native language is not English.
- Queries can be submitted as single terms or complex phrases in one of the languages listed below, which include character-based languages. No other search engine has this feature.
- A query can use words from more than one language. No other search engine has this feature either.
- The search interface changes to allow search terms to be entered in the chosen language.
- Typing accents or other diacritical marks is optional.
- Queries are transformed into English.
- Results are MEDLINE/PubMed citations published in any one or more of the listed languages, as specified by the user.
- Links to full-text articles, if available for free, are included in the search results.
- BabelMeSH has a free-text interface.
These languages have been available for several years, but developers continue to be interested in adding languages.