MEDLINE

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June 26, 1997: The first search of PubMed by Vice President Al Gore at the US Capitol.[1]

MEDLINE® (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online) is a database of predominantly biomedical bibliographic citations maintained by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM).[2] Each citation includes bibliographic data, abstract if available, links to full text of the article and keywords. The keywords are indexed with the NLM's Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®).[3]

There are many third party interfaces to search MEDLINE such as OVID[4]. The National Library of Medicine's own search interface, PubMed (http://pubmed.gov) is freely available since its first search was performed by Vice President Al Gore from a press conference at the US Capitol on June 26, 1997.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Anonymous. August 1997. Retrieved on 2007-11-09.
  2. National Library of Medicine. MEDLINE Fact Sheet. Retrieved on 2007-11-09.
  3. National Library of Medicine. Medical Subject Headings (MESH®) Fact Sheet. Retrieved on 2007-11-09.
  4. MEDLINE® - Ovid's MEDLINE. Retrieved on 2007-11-09.