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FAQ: PubMed
Printer-friendly VersionQuestion: What is PubMed?
Answer:
PubMed is a service of the U. S. National Library of Medicine that:
- provides free access to MEDLINE, the NLM database of indexed citations and abstracts to medical, nursing, dental, veterinary, health care, and preclinical sciences journal articles
- includes additional selected life sciences journals not in MEDLINE
- adds new citations Tuesday through Saturday
- was developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) as part of the Entrez retrieval system
PubMed features include:
- a "See Related Articles" feature to get articles that are similar to a given article
- LinkOut links to full-text articles on participating publishers' Web sites
- Clinical Queries filters for searching clinical studies and systematic reviews.
More information about PubMed and related databases is in:
PubMed FAQs
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/faq.html
PubMed Overview
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/overview.html
PubMed Training Manual
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/web_based.html
PubMed: MEDLINE® Retrieval on the World Wide Web Fact Sheet
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/pubmed.html
What is MEDLINE, and how do I use it to find information? (FAQ: Finding Medical Information in MEDLINE)
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/services/usemedline.html
MEDLINE/PubMed and Other Databases
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/services/faqmed.html
NLM Databases and Electronic Resources
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/index.html
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http://www.nlm.nih.gov/services/pubmed.html
Last reviewed: 09 September 2008
Last updated: 09 September 2008
First published: 01 January 1998
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