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PubMed Overview

  • NLM has been indexing the biomedical literature since 1879, to help provide health professionals access to information necessary for research, health care, and education.

  • What was once a printed index to articles, the Index Medicus, became a database now known as MEDLINE.  MEDLINE contains journal citations and abstracts for biomedical literature from around the world. 

  • Since 1996, free access to MEDLINE has been available to the public online via PubMed.

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Last reviewed: 28 April 2009
Last updated: 10 October 2008
First published: 20 March 2001
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