FAQ: Former Databases

The following NLM products no longer exist. See recommendations below for finding their content:

AIDSDRUGS is replaced by AIDSinfo^{^®} Drug Database and HIV/AIDS Information Treatment: Drugs.
AIDSLINE^{^®} journal citations are in MEDLINE^{^®}. Use PubMed^{^®} and limit to the AIDS subset.
AIDSTRIALS HIV/AIDS trial information is in AIDSinfo Clinical Trials and ClinicalTrials.gov.
AVLINE^® records are in LocatorPlus^®. Set limits for Medium/Format before searching. Or, use the NLM Catalog.
BIOETHICSLINE^® journal citations are in MEDLINE. Use PubMed. Monograph data (technical reports, books, book chapters) are in LocatorPlus. A Bioethics Subset search strategy is available in PubMed. Bioethics-related non-Index Medicus journals and other material (book chapters, bills, laws, court decisions, reports, books, audiovisuals, and news articles indexed by Kennedy Institute of Ethics) are in ETHX on the Web.
CATLINE^® records are in LocatorPlus. Set limits for Medium/Format before searching. Or, use the NLM Catalog to search for monographs.
HealthSTAR journal citations are in MEDLINE. Use PubMed. Monographic data (technical reports, books, book chapters) are in LocatorPlus.
HISTLINE^® journal citations are in MEDLINE. Use PubMed. Monographic data merged into LocatorPlus.
Internet Grateful Med (IGM) was replaced by PubMed.
Journals database records are in LocatorPlus; set limits for Medium/Format before searching. Or, use the NLM Catalog to search for NLM journal holdings.
Locator became LocatorPlus when multiple databases merged with Locator.
Multiple Congenital Anomaly/Mental Retardation (MCA/MR) Syndromes content is in the NLM Archives because the data is not maintained. See the Congenital Syndromes Database.
NLM Gateway transitioned to a pilot project featuring Meeting Abstracts and Health Services Research Projects in Progress (HSRProj). NLM databases formerly searched by the NLM Gateway are available as separate resources.
OLDMEDLINE journal citations are in MEDLINE. Use PubMed.
POPLINE^® is maintained by the K4Health project at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Center for Communication Programs. POPLINE records for journal articles 1980 through 2000 are in MEDLINE/PubMed. Monographic data from POPLINE during this period is in LocatorPlus.
SERLINE^® records are in LocatorPlus; set limits for Medium/Format before searching. Or, use the NLM Catalog to search for NLM serials holdings.
SPACELINE journal article records are in PubMed. Monographic data from the database merged into LocatorPlus.

Some additional sources of information about the database changes, PubMed, or the NLM Gateway are:

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