What is the difference between PubMed and Medline?

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Pubmed is an interface used to search Medline, as well as additional biomedical content. Medline is an interface for searching only Medline content. PubMed is an interface that is widely open to the public and is supported by the United States tax payers. Ovid Medline, however, is paid database that allows you to narrow your search only to Medline articles.

In Pubmed, in addition to Medline articles, you will have access to PubMedCentral papers, which are full text articles deposited to promote open access, and articles that are “in process” that is, prior to being indexed with MeSH terms, and articles submitted by publishers, “ahead of print.” This is why if you search for the same term in Medline and in Pubmed, you may obtain as many as ten thousand more articles in Pubmed.

Here is the link to the National Library of Medicine’s page with a much more complete explanation of how Medline, Pubmed and PubMedCentral are different: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/dif_med_pub.html​

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  • Last Updated Jul 17, 2019
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  • Answered By Sharon Whitfield

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