| What is PubMed? |
What is Medline? |
What is Embase? |
- Online version of Index Medicus produced by the US National Library of Medicine (NLM).
- Freely available on the Internet.
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- A subset of PubMed (actually about 98%) made available by NLM to commercial suppliers.
- Available by subscription through a number of interfaces. At KEMH we have the OVID interface.
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- An Elsevier database.
- Available by subscription through a number of interfaces. At KEMH we have the OVID interface.
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| Coverage of PubMed |
Coverage of Medline |
Coverage of Embase |
- Back to 1966 and selectively to 1809.
- Contains over 25 million records. In addition to Medline, Pubmed contains:
- 'in process' citations
- some older citations
- citations to non-medical journals
- citations to ebooks
- Some free full text (PubMed Central) & 'Find it @ WNHS' links if accessed through library
- Subject coverage = medical, biomedical & life sciences.
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- Back to 1946.
- Contains over 22 million records from 5, 600 mainly US journals.
- Some full text and 'Find it @ WNHS' links.
- Subject coverage = medical & biomedical sciences.
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- Back to 1947 and selectively to 1902.
- Contains over 29 million records from more than 8, 500 journals from at least 90 countries.
- Includes all of Medline plus over 2, 000 extra titles (including more EU journals) and 260, 000 conference abstracts.
- Some full text and 'Find it @ WNHS' links.
- Subject coverage = Medline + drug & pharmacy journals.
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| Searching PubMed |
Searching Medline |
Searching Embase |
- Easy keyword searching and automatic mapping to MeSH terms.
- No subheading selection.
- Results may be limited to reviews and full text. 'Clinical Queries' allows searching for clinical trials, systematic reviews and medical genetics topics
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- Advanced Search offers guided mapping of keywords to MeSH terms
- Search topics may be limited by selecting subheadings
- Various limiters, including EBM Reviews and types of clinical query.
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- Advanced Search with guided mapping of keywords to Emtree (MeSH plus synonyms) terms.
- Basic 'natural language' search with synonym searching & relevance ranking.
- Subheadings include specific drug-related topics.
- Extensive limiting options available, including types of EBM, clinical trials & routes of drug administration.
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| Other Features of PubMed |
Other Features of Medline |
Other Features of Embase |
- 'Related citations', including highlighting of review articles. Link from a particular result to systematic reviews referencing that study.
- Register with 'My NCBI' to save searches, set up alerts & customise filters
- Citations may be exported to EndNote.
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- 'Find Similar' and 'Find Citing Articles'.
- Register to save searches, create email alerts & RSS feeds.
- Citations may be exported to EndNote.
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- 'Find Similar' and 'Find Citing Articles'.
- Register to save searches, create email alerts & RSS feeds.
- Citations may be exported to EndNote.
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| Use PubMed: |
Use Medline: |
Use Embase: |
- If you are unable to access subscription databases.
- For easy keyword searching (automatically maps to MeSH).
- For clinical queries.
- For genetics topics.
- To be offered related citations and links to systematic reviews citing a study.
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- For guided MeSH subject searching.
- For extensive medical subheadings and other search limiting options.
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- For guided Emtree subject searching (including MeSH).
- For great basic, natural language search.
- For drug/pharmacy topics (coverage plus subheading options)
- To pick up recent articles & conference papers.
- For extensive search limiting options.
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