Medline/PubMed/NLM
Gateway explained.
What
is MEDLINE?
MEDLINE
is a database created by the National Library of Medicine (NLM). MEDLINE
contains
citations and abstracts from 4,500 biomedical journals published in the
countries. Articles are indexed from 1966 to present.
The
scope of MEDLINE is biomedicine, delivery of health care, nutrition,
pharmacology, and
environmental health.
MEDLINE
citations and abstracts are a component of NLM’s PubMed database.
When
using PubMed you can limit the retrieval of citations
to MEDLINE by clicking on LIMITS
on the PubMed Home Page and selecting MEDLINE from
the Subsets pull-down menu.
What
is PubMed?
PubMed is developed by the
National library of medicine.
·
PubMed provides free access to MEDLINE
·
PubMed provides links to integrated molecular biology
databases maintained by NCBI
·
PubMed links to full-text articles at participating
publisher’s Web sites, biological data,
sequence centers, etc..
(parts from the National Library of Medicine Fact Sheets at
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/dif_med_pub.html)
Tutorial
for PubMed
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_tutorial/m1001.html
What
is NLM Gateway?
NLM
Gateway is a Web interface that lets the user search simultaneously many of NLM’s
information resources and databases. The Gateway is a good way to start
learning about
NLM’s resources. An excellent overview of Gateway
provided by NLM is located at: