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What's the difference between PubMed and

Medline?

What is pubmed? What is medline?

• Online version of Index Medicus produced by the US National Library of Medicine (NLM).

• Freely available on the Internet.

• A subset of PubMed (actually about 98%) made available by NLM to commercial suppliers.

• Available by subscription through a number of interfaces. At KEMH we have the OVID interface.

Coverage of PubMed Coverage of Medline

• Back to 1966 and selectively to 1809.a

• Contains over 22 million records. In addition to Medline, Pubmed contains:              

• 'in process' citations•some older citations•citations to non-medical journals•citations to ebooks• Some free full text (PubMed Central)

& 'Find it @ WNHS' links if accessed through library

• Subject coverage = medical, biomedical & life sciences.

• Back to 1967.•  • Contains approx 18 million records

from    5, 000 mainly US journals.•  •  • Some full text and 'Find it @ WNHS'

links.• Subject coverage = medical &

biomedical sciences.

Searching PubMed Searching Medline

• Easy keyword searching and automatic mapping to MeSH terms.

• No subheading selection.• Results may be limited to reviews and

full text. 'Clinical Queries' allows searching for clinical trials, systematic reviews and medical genetics topics

• Advanced Search offers guided mapping of keywords to MeSH terms

• Search topics may be limited by selecting subheadings

• Various limiters, including EBM Reviews and types of clinical query.

Other Features of PubMed Other Features of Medline

• 'Related citations', including highlighting of review articles.  Link from a particular result to systematic reviews referencing that study. 

• Register with 'My NCBI' to save searches, set up alerts & customise filters

• Citations may be exported to EndNote.

• 'Find Similar' and 'Find Citing Articles'.

• Register to save searches, create email alerts & RSS feeds.

• Citations may be exported to EndNote.

Use PubMed: Use Medline:

• If you are unable to access subscription databases.

• For easy keyword searching (automatically maps to MeSH).

• For clinical queries.• For genetics topics.• To be offered related citations and

links to systematic reviews citing a study.

• For guided MeSH subject searching.• For extensive medical subheadings

and other search limiting options.