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MEDLINE (PubMed)
MEDLINE (PubMed)

Description

MEDLINE (PubMed) is a comprehensive source for medical and biomedical sciences.

The Medline database is generally recognized as the premier source for bibliographic and abstract coverage of biomedical literature. Medline is the largest subset of PubMed. Widely used by students, researchers and clinicians, the data from the US National Library of Medicine (NLM) is available in various versions. Medline records appear in many databases but RCSI Library offers three versions: via PubMed, Ovid and Ebsco. PubMed is the NLM version and it is globally available and free to all. Each version enables optimum searching and results but access, features and interfaces differ. PubMed is the US National Library of Medicine research level version of MEDLINE indexing over 20 million medical and healthcare articles.

For more information, please access our library guide: Finding Information 

PubMed features:

  • Latest, current records
  • Complete Medline and includes extra PubMed Central content
  • Precise Medical Subject Heading indexing
  • Quick limits to filter and focus results 
  • Click to ‘related articles’ and ‘free full text’
  • Save searches; share results
  • Remembers your searches
  • Journal titles are abbreviated
  • Pre-set “Clinical Queries” for therapy and diagnostics
  • Good help & tutorials

 

 

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