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Is MEDLINE the same as PubMed?

MEDLINE is the largest subset of PubMed. You may limit your PubMed search retrieval to MEDLINE citations by restricting your search to the MeSH controlled vocabulary or by using the Journal Categories filter called MEDLINE.
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What is the difference between MEDLINE and PubMed?

Although PubMed is essentially a way of accessing the MEDLINE database, it actually contains some additional content, including references to some books and chapters, in-process and ahead of print citations, and some articles which lie slightly outside of the subject scope of MEDLINE, such as those on astrophysics.
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What's the difference between PubMed Medline and embase?

Embase expands on MEDLINE (which is 92% of PubMed) with an additional 7 million articles from 2900+ journals that PubMed does not contain. PubMed has some newer information that Embase does not have (yet). PubMed is freely available to the world.
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Is PubMed and NCBI the same?

PubMed Overview

Available to the public online since 1996, PubMed was developed and is maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), located at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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Is MEDLINE a reliable source?

MEDLINE is a great resource for medical research because it is authoritative, peer-reviewed, and complete (as much as possible, anyway). MEDLINE is authoritative because it permits you to see who exactly conducted the research, who wrote the results, and even where the research was conducted.
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PubMed, MEDLINE, and PubMed Central (PMC): What's the Connection?

Should I search PubMed or MEDLINE?

Tip: PubMed is a great interface for carrying out a basic scoping search, or if you wish to identify a limited number of key references. MEDLINE via Ovid is recommended if you wish to carry out a comprehensive, structured or systematic search.
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What is the disadvantage of MEDLINE?

Medline cons: not as easy to use as Google Scholar. includes predominately journal literature; doesn't index the "gray" literature, book chapters, or many conference proceedings.
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What is the British version of PubMed?

UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) is an on-line database that offers open access to a vast and growing collection of biomedical and health research information.
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Can I trust PubMed?

PubMed is a free and publicly available resource provided by the US National Library of Medicine. It covers the biomedical literature and, as the free version of MEDLINE, is highly authoritative. Pros and Cons: Advantages of using PubMed: It is a huge, reliable, and highly authoritative resource.
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Is PubMed run by the government?

PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).
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Why use MEDLINE instead of PubMed?

In addition to the comprehensive journal selection process, what sets MEDLINE apart from the rest of PubMed is the added value of using the NLM controlled vocabulary, Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®), to index citations. PubMed has been available since 1996.
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Is MEDLINE free on PubMed?

Availability: Searching MEDLINE via PubMed results in a list of citations (including authors, title, source, and often an abstract) to journal articles and an indication of free electronic full-text availability. Searching is free of charge and does not require registration.
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What is PubMed not MEDLINE?

The PubMed-not-MEDLINE status refers to citations that reside in PubMed from journals included in MEDLINE and have undergone quality review but are not assigned MeSH headings because the cited item is not in scope for MEDLINE either by topic or by date of publication.
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Is Google Scholar the same as PubMed?

Both are indexing databases, but PubMed is designed for the medical journals while Google Scholar is interdisciplinary. Besides, PubMed is a data base, and GS is a search engine. The search functions of both are different. Another thing is that PubMed index scientific papers, while GS index every publication.
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What does MEDLINE stand for?

MEDLINE (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online, or MEDLARS Online) is a bibliographic database of life sciences and biomedical information. It includes bibliographic information for articles from academic journals covering medicine, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and health care.
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Is ProQuest the same as MEDLINE?

PubMed, MEDLINE via Ovid, and MEDLINE via ProQuest all let you access MEDLINE. There are several differences between the options but the most prominent is the search interface. For details, see this Fact Sheet by the National Library of Medicine.
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What has happened to PubMed?

2023 Mar-Apr;(451):e1. PubMed has been updated to streamline the display of lengthy author lists in search results. When viewing search results in the Summary display format, author lists are now truncated after 1,200 characters followed by an ellipsis (…) and a link to "See abstract for full author list" (Figure 1).
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Why are some journals not in PubMed?

If the journal is not indexed in Medline, the published article will not be found on PubMed. Based on the journal indexing of Edorium journals, none of the journals are indexed in Medline. Therefore, articles published in these journals will not be found on PubMed.
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Does PubMed have predatory journals?

KEY POINTS. PubMed, MEDLINE and PubMed Central are all funded by the National Library of Medicine but are different databases. PubMed has been reported to include some articles published in predatory journals. MEDLINE and PubMed policies for the selection of journals for database inclusion are slightly different.
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Who runs PubMed?

PubMed Central (PMC) is a free archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).
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Is PubMed American or British?

PubMed is a free search engine accessing primarily the MEDLINE database of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics. The United States National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health maintain the database as part of the Entrez system of information retrieval.
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Who funds PubMed?

Launched in February 2000, the repository has grown rapidly as the NIH Public Access Policy is designed to make all research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) freely accessible to anyone, and, in addition, many publishers are working cooperatively with the NIH to provide free access to their works.
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Is MEDLINE ethical?

Medline is committed to conducting business in an ethical manner. As part of that commitment, we regularly review our policies and procedures, benchmarking them against international best practices to ensure we're operating consistently with the latest international guidance.
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Why use MEDLINE and embase?

MEDLINE contains more than 22 million records from 5,600 journals, whereas Embase has over 29 million records from 8,500 journals. Even though everything in MEDLINE can be found in Embase, each database indexes its content in a different way.
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What is the main difference between MEDLINE and Cinahl?

Because the CINAHL database was developed especially for the nursing literature, the subject headings used by CINAHL are more focused on nursing topics than MEDLINE, and CINAHL is more responsive to adding new nursing concepts.
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