1, meeting document

Refers to papers and other materials read or exchanged at academic conferences. After the meeting, these meeting documents are usually released in the form of a collection, such as meeting minutes, meeting papers, meeting papers, etc.

2. Thesis

Refers to the academic papers written by undergraduate and graduate students in colleges and universities to obtain degrees under the guidance of tutors, including bachelor's degree papers and master's degree papers. The problems discussed in the dissertation are professional and in-depth, and generally have some originality. Most doctoral dissertations are creative scientific research works.

3. Patent documents

Patent literature in a narrow sense refers to various patent publications published by the patent department, such as patent specifications and claims; Patent literature in a broad sense also includes abstract of instructions, patent bulletin, various retrieval reference books and legal documents related to patents.

4. Publications

Including administrative documents and scientific and technological documents, the former includes reports, meeting minutes, laws, decrees, treaties, rules and regulations, bills, resolutions, notices and statistical data, while the latter includes scientific research reports, popular science materials, scientific and technological policies and technical regulations.

Its role:

Thematic literature is a very important information source, with distinctive features, extensive content, huge quantity and high reference value, which plays an important role in medical literature retrieval. Combined with the teaching practice of literature retrieval course, this paper discusses the necessity, feasibility and improvement measures of strengthening the content of professional literature retrieval in literature retrieval course.