Medline (Ebsco)
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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. Content producer: U.S. National Library of Medicine License Dates: 01-Apr-2007 to 31-Mar-2008 GODOT-enabled: Yes OVID Linksolver enabled: Yes RSS Feeds: EBSCOhost Search Alerts & Journal Alerts Available via RSS Feeds see: http://support.ebsco.com/knowledge_base/detail.php?id=2485 |
| Platform | Ebsco |
| Titles Covered | 5,250 indexed |
| Dates Covered | 1966 to present |
| Simultaneous Users | Unlimited |
| Terms and Conditions |
ILL, Electronic Reserve & Course Packs: EBSCO Publishing does not have any intellectual property rights in the full text content included in the databases other than the right to include these articles in the databases. The intellectual property rights in the articles are controlled by the publisher. Users must abide by Copyright Act of 1976 as well as any contractual restrictions, copyright restrictions, or other restrictions provided by publishers and specified in the products. With regard to electronic reserves, authorized users are allowed to use EBSCOhost articles for electronic reserves as long as they comply with copyright law, the policy of the subscribing library and the copyright statement within an individual record. Generally, it is acceptable to use one article per issue and to put it on electronic reserve for only one semester. Using more than one article per issue, or using an article for more than one semester, would require permission from the publisher. With regard to course packs, customers may not use EBSCOhost content for course packs unless permission is first obtained from the publisher. With regard to interlibrary loan, EBSCOhost products may be used for ILL unless ILL is specifically prohibited by the publisher in the copyright statement within an individual record. |
