Medline (Ovid)
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| Full Description | MEDLINE® (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online) is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's® (NLM) premier bibliographic database that contains approximately 12 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine. Articles cover topics in medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.
MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals. Included are citations from Index Medicus, International Nursing Index, Index to Dental Literature, HISTLINE, SPACELINE, PREMEDLINE®, AIDSLINE®, BIOETHICSLINE®, and HealthSTAR®.
The majority of the publications covered in MEDLINE are scholarly journals; a small number of newspapers, magazines, and newsletters considered useful to particular segments of the broad medical community are also included. Contains several separate files
License Dates: 01-Apr-2007 to 31-Mar-2008 GODOT-enabled: Yes OVID Linksolver -enabled: Yes |
| Platform | Ovid |
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| Dates Covered | 1966 to present |
| Simultaneous Users | Unlimited |
| Terms and Conditions |
Interlibrary Loan: From section 4.1 of the licensing agreement: "Ovid’s distributor license with the content providers and publishers does not permit the use of ariel for transmitting E.B.M.R. (Wiley Publishers) or Medline (National Library of Medicine), and other additional content that may be acquired by the eHLBC group from Ovid in the future." Course Packs and Electronic Reserve: From section 5.1 of the licensing agreement: "Members ... may incorporate parts of the Licensed Materials in printed Course Packs and Electronic Reserve collections for the use of Authorized Users in the course of instruction at a Member, but not for Commercial Use. Each such item shall carry appropriate acknowledgement of the source, listing title and author of the extract, title and author of the work, and Ovid. Copies of such items shall be deleted by the Member when they are no longer used for such purpose and or at the end of each course including the examination period and all related course work each school year. Course packs in non-electronic non-print perceptible form, such as audio or Braille, may also be offered to Authorized Users who, in the reasonable opinion of the Member, are visually impaired. Course packs will include only the link to the Ovid delivered content and articles cannot be downloaded and held in course packs due to licensing restrictions between Ovid and the content providers and publishers." |
