FAQ: PubMed®

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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 Overview
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/overview.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
  
  

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http://www.nlm.nih.gov/services/pubmed.html

Last reviewed: 02 October 2009
Last updated: 02 October 2009
First published: 01 January 1998
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