what's the difference between pubmed and medline?
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VAHID GHAREBAGHLOO
UNIVERSITY OF SHAHEDV.GHAREBAGHLOO@GMAIL .COM
In the name of god
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.