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MEDLINE
Producer U.S. National Library of Medicine (United States)
History 1879-present
Languages 39 languages for current journals, 60 for older journals
Access
Cost Free
Coverage
Disciplines Medicine, nursing, pharmacy,dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care,biology, biochemistry,molecular evolution,biomedicine, history of medicine, health services research, AIDS, toxicology and environmental health,molecular biology,complementary medicine,behavioral sciences, chemical sciences, bioengineering,health policy development, environmental science, marine biology, plant and animal science, biophysics
Record depth NLM Medical subject headings, abstracts, indexing,
Format coverage Mostly academic journals; a small number of newspapers, magazines, and newsletters; about 45% are for cited articles published in the U.S., about 91% are published in English
Temporal coverage 1946-present
No. of records Over 26 million
Update frequency Daily from Tuesday to Saturday; 2,000-4,000 references per update
Links
Website
MEDLINE (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online, or MEDLARS Online) is a bibliographic database of life sciences and biomedical information. It includes bibliographic information for articles from academic journals covering medicine, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and health care. MEDLINE also covers much of the literature in biology andbiochemistry, as well as fields such as molecular evolution.
Compiled by the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), MEDLINE is freely available on the Internet and searchable via PubMed and NLM's National Center for Biotechnology Information'sEntrez system.