Why should I use MEDLINE?

Nearly 5,000 journals are read and their individual articles indexed and added to the MEDLINE database, which contains information about over 12 million journal articles. MEDLINE is a great resource for medical research because it is authoritative, peer-reviewed, and complete (as much as possible, anyway).

What is the purpose of MEDLINE?

MEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) premier bibliographic database that contains more than 31 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine.

Why use MEDLINE over PubMed?

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.

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.

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.

Chapter 1 - What is MEDLINE

Is Embase better than MEDLINE?

Embase includes all of MEDLINE's citations plus many more. However, if you have already searched MEDLINE, it is easy to see only the citations that are exclusive to Embase.

What are the benefits of using Embase?

An EMBASE searcher has the power- ful ability to use specific drug identifiers as well as brand and manufacturer names. The EMBASE record contains additional information about the drug in question that may be utilised for further searching in EMBASE.

Why is MEDLINE better than 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.

What is the disadvantage of PubMed?

Pros and Cons: Disadvantages of using PubMed:

Its interface can be a little daunting, and it is sometimes not clear how a search has worked. It does not necessarily contain links to full-text, and you might have to use Primo Search to track down the full item.

Which is bigger MEDLINE or PubMed?

MEDLINE is the largest component of PubMed and consists primarily of citations from journals selected for MEDLINE; articles indexed with MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) and curated with funding, genetic, chemical and other metadata.

Why is MEDLINE better than other databases?

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. The journals included in MEDLINE must target health professionals and researchers as their audience and publish original research.

Who selects journals for MEDLINE?

The majority of journals are selected for MEDLINE based on the recommendation of the Literature Selection Technical Review Committee (LSTRC), an NIH-chartered advisory committee of external experts.

Why is PubMed better?

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.

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.

What are MEDLINE's values?

What is the difference between CINAHL and MEDLINE?

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.

Is Google Scholar better than PubMed?

While both platforms offer valuable information, there are a few distinct benefits of using Google Scholar over PubMed: Broad Coverage: Google Scholar includes a wide range of academic disciplines, including biochemistry and biology, whereas PubMed is primarily focused on life sciences and biomedical research.

Is MEDLINE a database?

MEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) premier bibliographic database that contains references to journal articles in life sciences, with a concentration on biomedicine.

What is the relationship between PubMed and MEDLINE?

PubMed is a free interface for searching MEDLINE, the most popular bibliographic database in the health and medical sciences. It contains references to millions of journal articles from biomedical journals and is updated daily.

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.

Is MEDLINE a scholarly source?

Created by the United States National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE is an authoritative bibliographic database containing citations and abstracts for biomedical and health journals used by health care professionals, nurses, clinicians and researchers.

What is MEDLINE in process?

This is the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) in-process database for MEDLINE. It provides basic information and abstract for a journal article or other item before it is indexed with MeSH heading(s) and added to the MEDLINE Database.

Why choose Embase database?

You can use Embase.com to search 8,500 journals from over 95 countries: this includes MEDLINE content. There are approximately 3000 indexed journals unique to Embase. It also contains about 2.3 million conference abstracts indexed from more than 7,000 conferences dating from 2009.

What are the benefits of searching multiple databases?

What is the difference between PsycINFO and Embase?

PsycINFO contains literature on psychology from more than 2200 periodicals from 1872 to the present. It was previously known as PsycLIT. EMBASE is a biomedical and pharmaceutical database with more than 18 million records from 1974 to the present. It includes more European articles than MEDLINE does.