Email w/Instructions

Dear [Researcher]:

Thank you for accepting our invitation to participate in a brief interview regarding your research utilizing MeSH and/or MeSH indexing. The interview has 6 open-ended questions that we estimate will take about 30 minutes to discuss. I prefer to conduct the interviews over Skype; however, if you do not have access to Skype we can arrange an alternative mechanism.

Please select a date and time during which you will be available for an interview using our Doodle poll: [link to Doodle poll inserted here]. If you do not have availability on any of the dates/times provided, please send me an email (katherine.masterton@nih.gov) and we can make alternative arrangements. Once you have selected a date and time I will email you a confirmation and request your Skype username so I can contact you at the time of the scheduled interview.

Your participation is voluntary and all of your responses will be kept private to the extent allowed by law. No personally identifiable information will be associated with your responses in any reports of this data. Interviews will be recorded to ensure high quality data analysis. Summary results and analysis of the interviews will be widely shared at national and regional meetings, in publications, and on NLM websites. Should you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact us.

Thank you for your participation in our research.

Sincerely,

Kate Masterton

Associate Fellow

National Library of Medicine

8600 Rockville Pike

Building 38, 2N-05-E

Bethesda, MD 20894

Phone: (301) 496-4943

Email: katherine.masterton@nih.gov

PROJECT SPONSORS

Caitlin Sticco

Technical Analyst, Index Section

National Library of Medicine

8600 Rockville Pike

Bethesda, MD 20894-0001

301-496-8975

sticcojc@mail.nih.gov

John Kilbourne, MD

Head, Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

National Library of Medicine

8600 Rockville Pike

Bethesda, MD 20894-0001

301-594-2897

kilbourj@mail.nlm.nih.gov