What is PubMed?PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) that includes over 18 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to 1948. A distinctive feature of MEDLINE is that the citations are indexed, or coded, with the NLM's controlled vocabulary, called Medical Subject Headings or MeSH®. PubMed contains bibliographic citations and author abstracts from approximately 5,200 biomedical journals published in the United States and 80 other countries. Coverage is worldwide, but most records are from English-language sources or have English abstracts. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources. PubMed also includes citations to newer articles that are not yet fully indexed. Think of it as…PubMed is a search engine for MEDLINE.When you search PubMed, you are searching MEDLINE. For more information, see NLM's factsheet:
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