Q180686

Also known as PM, PubMed.gov, Public Medicine

PubMed is an openly accessible, free database which primarily includes the MEDLINE database of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics. The United States National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health maintains the database as part of the Entrez system of information retrieval.

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Q180686 is the unique identifier for PubMed, the free online database maintained by the U.S. National Library of Medicine that lets researchers and the public search millions of articles about medicine, biology, and life sciences. It matters because it provides open access to scientific research summaries and references that doctors, scientists, students, and curious people use to learn about health topics and stay current with medical discoveries.

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Biodatabase.title: PubMed
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Biodatabase.center: United States National Library of Medicine (NLM)
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Wikidata facts

Official website: pmlegacy.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Stack Exchange tag: stackoverflow.com/tags/pubmed
Commons category: PubMed
short name: PM
API endpoint URL: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/tools/developers
inception: 1997-00-00

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Contents

Content
Characteristics
Website design
PubMed for handhelds/mobiles
Search
Standard search
Comprehensive search
Journal article parameters
Publication Type: Clinical queries/systematic reviews
Secondary ID
See also
Mapping to MeSH
My NCBI
LinkOut
PubMed Commons
askMEDLINE
Alternative interfaces
Data mining of PubMed
See also
References
External links

From 1971 to 1997, online access to the MEDLINE database was provided via computer, using phone lines primarily through institutional facilities, such as university libraries. PubMed, first released in January 1996, ushered in the era of private, free, home and office-based MEDLINE searching. It was released alongside "Internet Grateful Med" (web-version of Grateful Med). In 2001 Grateful Med was deleted and entirely replaced by PubMed. The PubMed system was offered free to the public starting in June 1997.