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/ics-wpd/popweb/

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: 07 July 2009
Last updated: 07 July 2009
First published: 09 May 2005
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