What databases does PubMed use?

PubMed has been available since 1996. Its more than 36 million references include the MEDLINE database plus the following types of citations: In-process citations, which provide records for articles before those records are indexed with MeSH or converted to out-of-scope status.

How is PubMed different from other databases?

PubMed is a free resource supporting the search and retrieval of biomedical and life sciences literature with the aim of improving health–both globally and personally. The PubMed database contains more than 36 million citations and abstracts of biomedical literature.

What is the difference between PubMed and embase?

Both have biomedical content. 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.

Who is the provider of PubMed?

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.

Why is PubMed a reliable database?

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.

PubMed, MEDLINE, and PubMed Central (PMC): What's the Connection?

Are PubMed and MEDLINE the same database?

Pubmed is an interface used to search Medline, as well as additional biomedical content. Ovid Medline is an interface for searching only Medline content. Pubmed is more user-friendly and allows you to search through more content than Ovid Medline. However, Ovid Medline allows you to perform a more focused search.

Why use PubMed instead of 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.

Is PubMed a predatory journal?

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.

Why use PubMed over Google Scholar?

As a result, Google Scholar may include articles from non-scientific sources such as blogs and websites, which may not have been peer-reviewed or quality checked, whereas PubMed filters out non-biomedical sources to ensure that all articles included in the search results have been published in reputable peer-reviewed ...

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).

Is Ovid MEDLINE the same as PubMed?

PubMed is a huge database that includes the entire Medline database. Medline is available through PubMed and through other companies. At MCPHS, we access Medline through PubMed and through Ovid. The content is the same, but you will notice some differences.

Should I use Embase or MEDLINE?

Embase is a completely separate database to PubMed and MEDLINE, but it does contain all of the articles that can be found in MEDLINE. It also contains over 7 million records that cannot be accessed via MEDLINE/PubMed.

Should I use PubMed or PubMed Central?

PubMed is a biomedical literature database which contains the abstracts of publications in the database. PubMed Central is a full text repository, which contains the full text of publications in the database. Publications that are archived in PubMed Central may be found when searching PubMed.

What makes PubMed unique?

PubMed delivers a publicly available search interface for MEDLINE as well as other NLM resources, making it the premier source for biomedical literature and one of the most widely accessible resources in the world.

How reliable is PubMed?

PubMed is provided as a public service by the US government, giving access to a database of medical journals and related publications. It is as reliable as the documents and websites it accesses, which are generally refereed journals and websites of reputable firms.

What is PubMed Central database?

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)

Is PubMed always peer-reviewed?

Most journals indexed for PubMed are peer-reviewed or refereed, but peer review criteria and reviewer or referee qualifications vary. Check a journal's editorial information or ask the publisher about policy for specific journal titles.

Is Google Scholar bigger than PubMed?

Whereas PubMed searches retrieve published literature from biomedical journals, Google Scholar searches retrieve both published and unpublished literature from a range of disciplines. This may explain the greater overall number of records found per search (median of 1000 for Google Scholar and 148 for PubMed).

Why not to use Google Scholar for research?

Disadvantages of Using Google Scholar

It has yet to reveal what criteria they are using to select "scholarly" material. Results often vary in quality and it is up to the researcher to determine which of the results are suitable for their purposes.

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.

Is PubMed a journal or database?

The MEDLINE database is directly searchable from NLM as a subset of the PubMed^® database as well as through other numerous search services that obtain the data from NLM's Data Distribution program.

How do you know if a journal is PubMed indexed or not?

Does PubMed include Embase?

Objective: Medline/PubMed is often first choice for health science researchers when doing literature searches. However, Medline/PubMed does not cover the health science research literature equally well across specialties. Embase is often considered an important supplement to Medline/PubMed in health sciences.

Are Embase and MEDLINE the same?

Database overlap

Although MEDLINE and EMBASE searches tend not to identify the same sets of references, they have been found to return similar numbers of relevant references.

Is PubMed the best database?

PubMed offers a broad overview of existing literature on a particular topic and is arguably more comprehensive when it comes to biomedical topics than any other database.