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MEDLINE

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 and biochemistry, as well as fields such as molecular evolution.

Key facts

Bibliographic database.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
Bibliographic database.depth: NLM Medical subject headings, abstracts, indexing
Bibliographic database.formats: Mostly academic journals; a small number of newspapers, magazines, and newsletters; over 40% are for cited articles published in the U.S., about 93% are published in English
Bibliographic database.temporal: 1946–present
Bibliographic database.number: Over 29 million
Bibliographic database.updates: Daily; 2,000–4,000 references per update
Bibliographic database.producer: U.S. National Library of Medicine
Bibliographic database.country: United States
Bibliographic database.history: 1879–present
Bibliographic database.languages: 40 languages for current journals, 60 for older journals
Bibliographic database.cost: Free

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History
Initial development of MEDLARS
MEDLARS Online
Database
Data quality
Retrieval
Importance
Inclusion of journals
Usage
See also
References
External links

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's Entrez system.