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MEDLINE is the largest component of PubMed (http://pubmed.gov), the freely accessible online database of biomedical journal citations and abstracts created by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM®). Approximately 5,200 journals published in the United States and more than 80 other countries have been selected and are currently indexed for MEDLINE. A distinctive feature of MEDLINE is that the records are indexed with NLM's controlled vocabulary, the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®).
In addition to MEDLINE citations, PubMed also contains:
One of the ways users can limit their retrieval to MEDLINE citations in PubMed is by selecting MEDLINE from the Subsets menu on the Limits screen.
Other PubMed services include:
NLM distributes all but approximately 2% of all citations in PubMed to those who formally lease MEDLINE from NLM.
See the PubMed Overview, the PubMed Help, and the MEDLINE/PubMed Resources Guide for additional information on PubMed's content, features, and searching.
Last reviewed: 22 April 2008
Last updated: 22 April 2008
First published: 10 July 2002
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