FAQ: Former Databases

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Question: Why can't I find this NLM product?

Answer:

The following NLM products no longer exist. See recommendations below for finding their content:

• AIDSDRUGS
• AIDSLINE
• AIDSTRIALS
• AVLINE
• BIOETHICSLINE
• CATLINE
• HealthSTAR
• HISTLINE
• Internet Grateful Med (IGM)
• Locator
• Mulitple Congenital Anomaly/Mental Retardation (MCA/MR) Syndromes
• OLDMEDLINE
• POPLINE
• SERLINE
• SPACELINE

For AIDS information, see:

• AIDSinfo
  http://www.aidsinfo.nih.gov/
  
  
• Fact Sheet: AIDS Information Resources
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/aidsinfs.html
  
  
• HIV/AIDS Information
  http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/hiv.html
  
  
• MEDLINE/PubMed limited to the AIDS subset
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed&orig_db=PubMed&cmd_current=Limits&pmfilter_Subsets=AIDS
  
  
• NLM Gateway
  http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov
  
  
  

For AVLINE, CATLINE, SERLINE or LOCATOR content, use:

• LocatorPlus
  http://www.locatorplus.gov
  
  
• NLM Catalog
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=nlmcatalog
  

Citations that were in BIOETHICSLINE, HealthSTAR, HISTLINE, OLDMEDLINE, POPLINE, AND SPACELINE are now in MEDLINE. Use PubMed or the NLM Gateway (instead of Internet Grateful Med) to search for them:

• PubMed
  http://pubmed.gov
  
  
• NLM Gateway
  http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov
  
  

The POPLINE database is now maintained by the INFO Project at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Center for Communication Programs
http://db.jhuccp.org/popinform/basic.html

Some additional sources of information about the database changes, PubMed or the NLM Gateway are:

• The Reorganization of National Library of Medicine (NLM) Bibliographic Databases
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/conversion/conversion_status.html
  
  
• Number of Titles Currently Indexed for Index Medicus and Medline on PubMed
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/num_titles.html
  
  
• PubMed FAQs
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/faq.html
  
  
• Fact Sheet PubMed®: MEDLINE® Retrieval on the World Wide Web
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/pubmed.html
  
  
• Gateway FAQs
  http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/gw/Cmd?FAQ.x
  
  
• Fact Sheet: The NLM Gateway
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/gateway.html
  

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Last reviewed: 23 July 2008
Last updated: 23 July 2008
First published: 09 May 2005
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