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PubMed: Introduction

The Bethel College Library provides access to MEDLINE via the PubMed search system from the National Library of Medicine along with MEDLINE via EBSCOhost.

  • PubMed covers journal articles in medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and the health care system.
  • It has information about journal articles published in 5,200 journals in 30 languages dating back to 1949.
  • PubMed does not include information about meeting abstracts, conference proceedings, dissertations, patents, or websites.

 

What's the difference between PubMed or MEDLINE through EBSCOhost? 

What is PubMed?

What is Medline?
  • Online version of Index Medicus produced by the US National Library of Medicine (NLM).
  • Freely available on the Internet.

 
  • A subset of PubMed (actually about 98%) made available by NLM to commercial suppliers.
  • Available by subscription through a number of interfaces. At Bethel we have the EBSCOhost interface.

Coverage of PubMed

Coverage of Medline
  • Back to 1966 and selectively to 1809.
  • Contains over 25 million records. In addition to Medline, Pubmed contains:           
  1. 'in process' citations
  2. some older citations
  3. citations to non-medical journals
  4. citations to ebooks
  • Some free full text (PubMed Central) & 'Find it @ BethelKS' links if accessed through library
  • Subject coverage = medical, biomedical & life sciences.
  • Back to 1946.
  • Contains over 22 million records from 5, 600 mainly US journals.
  • Some linked full-text through EBSCOhost.
  • Subject coverage = medical & biomedical sciences.

Searching PubMed

Searching Medline
  • Easy keyword searching and automatic mapping to MeSH terms.
  • No subheading selection.
  • Results may be limited to reviews and full text. 'Clinical Queries' allows searching for clinical trials, systematic reviews and medical genetics topics
  • Advanced Search offers guided mapping of keywords to MeSH terms
  • Search topics may be limited by selecting subheadings
  • Various limiters, including EBM Reviews and types of clinical query.

Other Features of PubMed

Other Features of Medline
  • 'Related citations', including highlighting of review articles.  Link from a particular result to systematic reviews referencing that study. 
  • Register with 'My NCBI' to save searches, set up alerts & customise filters
  • Citations may be exported to EndNote.
  • 'Find Similar' and 'Find Citing Articles'.
  • Register to save searches, create email alerts & RSS feeds.
  • Citations may be exported to EndNote.

Use PubMed:

Use Medline:
  • If you are unable to access subscription databases.
  • For easy keyword searching (automatically maps to MeSH).
  • For clinical queries.
  • For genetics topics.
  • To be offered related citations and links to systematic reviews citing a study.
  • For guided MeSH subject searching.
  • For extensive medical subheadings and other search limiting options.

 

PubMed with BC holdings

Click HERE to access Bethel's PubMed!