MEDLINE
MEDLINE
MEDLINE (/'med.laɪn/), also known as Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System 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 and biochemistry, as well as fields such as molecular evolution.
Etymology
The term "MEDLINE" is a portmanteau of "Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online". It was developed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) in the United States and is one of the largest databases of its kind in the world.
Related Terms
- PubMed: A free search engine accessing primarily the MEDLINE database of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics.
- PubMed Central: A free digital repository that archives publicly accessible full-text scholarly articles that have been published within the biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
- Embase: Another biomedical research literature database, similar to MEDLINE, but with a larger focus on drug-related information and with a more international scope.
- Cochrane Library: A collection of databases in medicine and other healthcare specialties provided by Cochrane and other organizations.
- Web of Science: A website that provides subscription-based access to multiple databases that provide comprehensive citation data for many different academic disciplines.
See Also
External links
- Medical encyclopedia article on MEDLINE
- Wikipedia's article - MEDLINE
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