FAQ: PubMed®

Question: What is PubMed®?

Answer:

PubMed is a service of the US National Library of Medicine® that:

Provides free access to MEDLINE®, the NLM® database of indexed citations and abstracts to medical, nursing, dental, veterinary, health care, and preclinical sciences journal articles
Includes additional selected life sciences journals not in MEDLINE
Adds new citations Tuesday through Saturday
Was developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) as part of the Entrez retrieval system

PubMed features include:

A "See Related Articles" feature to get articles that are similar to a given article
LinkOut® links to full-text articles on participating publishers' Web sites
Clinical Queries filters for searching clinical studies and systematic reviews.

More information about PubMed and related databases is in:

PubMed FAQs
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/faq.html
PubMed Training Manual
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/web_based.html
PubMed: MEDLINE Retrieval on the World Wide Web Fact Sheet
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/pubmed.html
What is MEDLINE, and how do I use it to find information? (FAQ: Finding Medical Information in MEDLINE)
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/services/usemedline.html
MEDLINE/PubMed and Other Databases
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/services/faqmed.html
NLM Databases and Electronic Resources
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/index.html