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Database | |
About Pubmed | |
Produced by | National Library of Medicine |
Help | |
Time period | From 1950 (oldmedline) from 1966 (medline) |
Subjects, contents | Medical and biomedical sciences, dentistry and nursing over 16 million records |
Type of database | Specialized bibliography |
Focus | International, latest developments |
Data per reference | Bibliographic data (author, title etc.), keywords (MeSH), abstract |
Search options | |
Classification | No |
Keywords/Thesaurus | Excellent thesaurus (MeSH) and search options by sub-headings |
Index browsing | Yes |
Field search | Yes |
Wildcards | Truncation from right. Symbols: * (one sign or more, or blank) truncation automatic e.g. for singular or plural, |
Boolean operators | AND ; OR ; NOT |
Nearness operators | No |
Phrase searching | Yes (enter phrase in "...") |
"More like this" | Yes, based on related articles |
Search history | Yes. Earlier sets may be combined via "History" tab. Save search queries via option My NCBI |
Display, download, print | |
Display | Display options may be varied in number, your own choice of options from several searches may be selected via Clipboard. |
Format options | Most used format = MeSH |
Sorting | Latest date |
Linking from full reference | Yes if full text is available. |
Full-text link | Yes, in abstract format |
Download | After search and marking of chosen titles, collect these via "clipboard" button, then save in MeSH format as text file or via e-mail. Bibliographies may be compiled immediately in Reference Manager. |
After search and marking of chosen titles, display these in selected format via clipboard, then export via send to text, skipping all buttons. | |