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MEDLINE®/PubMed® Data
Biomedical journal citations from MEDLINE/PubMed, produced by the NLM Bibliographic Services Division, the Office of Computer and Communications Systems and the National Center for Biotechnology Information.
How to Lease - Database Content - Data Structure and Values - Data Maintenance and Availability - Data Use - Forms - Copyright/Trademark Information - Additional Information
How to Lease:
Database Content:
- MEDLINE Fact Sheet
- What's the Difference Between MEDLINE and PubMed?
- List of All Journals Cited in PubMed
- OLDMEDLINE Subset Overview
- See also the MeSH Vocabulary files
Data Structure and Values:
- Sample Data
- DTD Structure and XML Format:
- DTDs
Links to all NLM DTDs for licensed databases. - NLM® uses XML for MEDLINE Data
An explanation of NLM's decision to use XML format, and a description of its use for MEDLINE data. - XML Elements
A list of all elements and attributes used in MEDLINE/PubMed data.
- DTDs
- Creation of the Journal Source
- MEDLINE Minimal Data Set
Appendix D contains the minimum data set to meet the requirements of the license agreement under certain conditions. - MEDLINE/PubMed Characters
Information on special characters in the database. - MEDLINE Character Table
UNICODE and UTF encoding for MEDLINE characters. - Language Table
Language codes (and translations) used by MEDLINE/PubMed (including OLDMEDLINE). - Construction of National Library of Medicine Title Abbreviations
How journal title abbreviations are constructed for MEDLINE/PubMed. - Funding Support Data
The information added to the citation that describes financial support of the research. - NASA Space Flight Mission Summary Table
Descriptive values for each Space Flight Mission.
Data Availability and Maintenance:
- Announcements
The latest news for licensees. - Baseline Distribution:
- MEDLINE/PubMed Update Charts
Information about the update (post-baseline) files made available via ftp. - MEDLINE/PubMed Data Maintenance Overview
- MeSH Vocabulary File Data Used in Conjunction with MEDLINE (12/09/05)
- MEDLINE/PubMed Baseline Repository (MBR)
Access to the MBR Query Tool which allows registered licensees to search the MEDLINE/PubMed Baselines back through 2002. Other MBR resources include Frequency counts, Histogram/Summary Files, and UMLS Semantic Groups File.
Data Use:
- Licensee Research Use of NLM MEDLINE/PubMed Data
Licensees' reports on their use of MEDLINE/PubMed data for research purposes.
Forms:
Copyright/Trademark Information:
Additional Information:
- For additional information about MEDLINE/PubMed, see the MEDLINE/PubMed Resources Guide.
- For information about journals cited in MEDLINE/PubMed, see the NLM FAQ: Finding NLM® Serials Data and MEDLINE® Indexed Journals.
Last reviewed: 17 April 2009
Last updated: 22 May 2009
First published: 22 August 2007
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