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Find Articles: Indexes and Databases:
PubMed
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- Description
- PubMed, available via the National Center for Biotechnology
Information (NCBI) Entrez life sciences retrieval system, was
developed at the National
Library of Medicine (NLM), located at the U.S. National Institutues of Health (NIH). Entrez is the text-based search
and retrieval system used at NCBI for services including PubMed, Nucleotide and Protein Sequences,
Protein Structures,
Complete Genomes, Taxonomy, OMIM, and many others. PubMed provides access to bibliographic
information that includes MEDLINE and
OLDMEDLINE. PubMed coverage also includes the following:
- The out-of-scope citations (e.g., articles on plate tectonics or
astrophysics) from certain MEDLINE journals, primarily general science
and chemistry journals for which the life sciences articles are indexed
for MEDLINE.
- Citations that precede the date that a journal was selected for MEDLINE indexing.
- Some additional life science journals that submit full text to PubMedCentral and
receive a qualitative review by NLM.
- Help
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A PubMed Overview page,
and a PubMed Tutorial page are
available.
Adobe Acrobat Reader may be
necessary when linking to some full-text articles.
- For help using these indexes see: How do I find an article on my
topic?
- User tools and features
- Alert Service
- Dates covered
- MEDLINE contains over 17 million bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 5,000
biomedical journals dating back to the early 1950s.
- Updating frequency
- Daily.
- Sources
- PubMed source journals may be found in a searchable database.
- Type of coverage
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PubMed contains bibliographic citations, indexing and abstracts with links to
full-text journal
articles of participating publishers. It also provides access and links to the integrated
molecular biology databases included in NCBI's Entrez retrieval system.
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- Print Counterpart or related resources
- The print counterparts of MEDLINE are Index Medicus, International Nursing
Index and the Index to Dental Literature.
- Producer/content provider
- National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
- Vendor/electronic presentation provider
- National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
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