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Why use MEDLINE over 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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What are the advantages of MEDLINE database?

Some benefits to searching MEDLINE via the Ovid interface are:
  • Graphical interface is easy to navigate.
  • MeSH term mapper helps identify the correct terminology/MeSH.
  • Full-text links.
  • Indication of which journals are available at Himmelfarb Library in print and/or electronically.
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Should I search both PubMed and 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 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.
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What is the difference between PubMed indexed and MEDLINE indexed?

MEDLINE indexers index more than 850,000 articles each year for inclusion into Pubmed/MEDLINE the largest bibliographic data base in the world. These articles cover a broad spectrum of literature in life sciences including: medicine. nursing.
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PubMed, MEDLINE, and PubMed Central (PMC): What's the Connection?

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.
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What is MEDLINE used for?

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.
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What types of articles does PubMed not retrieve?

The PubMed database contains more than 36 million citations and abstracts of biomedical literature. It does not include full text journal articles; however, links to the full text are often present when available from other sources, such as the publisher's website or PubMed Central (PMC).
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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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Why is PubMed the best database?

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.
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Are all MEDLINE articles in 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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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.
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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 ...
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What is the difference between MEDLINE complete and 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.
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Why choose Ovid MEDLINE?

Ovid MEDLINE® is 100% equivalent in content to PubMed.

Ovid MEDLINE® is updated daily with a 1-day delay, and 2 days on Monday compared to PubMed. Ovid MEDLINE® supports links to free and subscribed full text.
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What are the features of MEDLINE?

MEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) premier bibliographic database that contains more than 30 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine. A distinctive feature of MEDLINE is that the records are indexed with NLM Medical Subject Headings (MeSH).
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Is Ovid MEDLINE same as PubMed?

MEDLINE (PubMed) and MEDLINE (Ovid) are two different interfaces that can both search the same data set of citations called MEDLINE. As always with different electronic interfaces, each one has unique features, such as filters for narrowing search results, ways of saving search strategies and results, and more.
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Why are articles not on PubMed?

Answer: For an article to be found in PubMed, the journal that has published the article should be indexed in Medline. 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.
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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.
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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.
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How reliable is PubMed?

PubMed is a highly reliable and widely used database for accessing biomedical literature. It is maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), which is part of the United States National Library of Medicine.
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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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Who uses MEDLINE database?

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.
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What is the difference between MEDLINE and Ebsco?

When it's a company. For instance, are you using EbscoHost or Ovid to search Medline? Medline is the database, while EbscoHost and Ovid are companies that host this database (and many others) in their unique environment.
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