MEDLINE

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June 26, 1997: The first search of PubMed by Vice President Al Gore at the US Capitol.[1]

MEDLINE® (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online) is a database of predominantly biomedical bibliographic citations maintained by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM).[2] Each citation includes bibliographic data, abstract if available, links to full text of the article and keywords. The keywords are indexed with the NLM's Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®).[3]

There are many third party interfaces to search MEDLINE such as OVID[4]. The National Library of Medicine's own search interface is PubMed (http://pubmed.gov).

PubMed

PubMed (http://pubmed.gov) has been freely available since its first search was performed by Vice President Al Gore from a press conference at the US Capitol on June 26, 1997.[1]

PubMed is hosted by the Entrez Search and Retrieval System of the National Center for Biotechnology Information[5] (NCBI) branch of the NLM[6] The hardware hosting Entrez has been described.[7]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 National Center for Biotechnology Information. August 1997. Retrieved on 2007-11-09. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "aug97" defined multiple times with different content
  2. National Library of Medicine. MEDLINE Fact Sheet. Retrieved on 2007-11-09.
  3. National Library of Medicine. Medical Subject Headings (MESH®) Fact Sheet. Retrieved on 2007-11-09.
  4. Anonymous. MEDLINE® - Ovid's MEDLINE. Retrieved on 2007-11-09.
  5. National Library of Medicine. The National Center for Biotechnology Information Programs and Activities Fact Sheet. Retrieved on 2007-11-10.
  6. Ostell, J. The Entrez Search and Retrieval System. Retrieved on 2007-11-10.
  7. Canese, K; Jentsch, J; Myers, C. Database Management and Hardware. Retrieved on 2007-11-10.

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