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MEDLINE (Medical Literature, Analysis, and Retrieval System Online), produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's premier bibliographic database that contains more than 15 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine. The broad coverage of the database includes basic biomedical research and the clinical sciences since 1950 including nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, allied health, and pre-clinical sciences. MEDLINE also covers life sciences that are vital to biomedical practitioners, researchers, and educators, including some aspects of biology, environmental science, marine biology, plant and animal science as well as biophysics and chemistry. Increased coverage of life sciences began in 2000. The database also includes records that cover the field of space life science and date from 1961 to the present. Examples of these records include basic bone and muscle physiology, psychological effects of isolation, and gravitational effects on plants.
MEDLINE is indexed using NLM's controlled vocabulary, MeSH® (Medical Subject Headings). An online thesaurus is available to aid in locating MeSH® descriptors.
Abstracts, which are taken directly from the published articles, are included for more than 62% of the records added from 1975 forward. Records added before 1975 do not contain abstracts; records added from 1985 to the present have abstracts for about 70% of the records. Approximately 400,000 records are added per year, of which more than 76% are in English.
Records that previously would have been added to AIDSLINE, HealthSTAR, and Toxline are now part of the MEDLINE database. MEDLINE also contains In Process records (formerly known as PreMEDLINE) and In Data Review records. In addition, more than 100,000 records from POPLINE, formerly a standalone database available through NLM, were added to MEDLINE in 2003. These records cover family planning, contraception, fertility, and population issues with data from 1980 to 2000.
MEDLINE covers virtually every area in the broad field of biomedicine, including, but not limited to, the following:
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MEDLINE is produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Questions concerning file content should be directed to: Customer Services Section 8600 Rockville Pike Bethesda, MD 20894
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For Dialog's Redistribution and Archive Policy, enter HELP ERA online. The following terms and conditions also apply.
Some material in the NLM databases are from copyrighted publications of the respective copyright claimants. Users of the NLM databases are solely responsible for compliance with any copyright restrictions and are referred to the publication data appearing in the bibliographic citations, as well as to the copyright notices appearing in the original publications, all of which are hereby incorporated by reference.
NLM represents that the data provided under this Agreement were formulated with a reasonable standard of care. Except for this representation, and as otherwise specifically provided in this Agreement, NLM makes no representation or warranties, expressed or implied. This includes, but is not limited to, any implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, with respect to the NLM datbases, and NLM specifically disclaims any such warranties and representations.
NLM grants permission for users who search NLM databases on DIALOG to retrieve citations/records and store them in personal files for subsequent use or transmit them to other individuals for their subsequent use, as long as this use does not constitute a substitute for searching the databases. The Library would be concerned if searchers were retaining records and using them over the years, since this "file" would not benefit from the error correction, maintenance, and other quality control measures that the Library requires as part of its license agreement. NLM requires no payment for such use of its records. Users contemplating more extensive redistribution should be referred to the copyright clause in the license agreement. NLM does not require payment for this use of the records.
