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Thursday, September 3, 2015

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PUBMED AND MEDLINE

As early as 1879, US National Library of Medicine started maintaining a bibliography of all the articles in various journals, the name of the compilation was Index Medicus MEDLINE is the electronic version of original raw data that is Index Medicus with the US National Library of Medicine. The database is updated very frequently by them and is robust. The electronic version was initially only with the librarians and the computers used by the librarians was known as MEDLARS.
The MEDLINE was open for public in 1996 through which the public can search it from different location around the world. This is essential  as the super computer database is in USA. The public interface for MEDLINE is known as PUBMED.

You should also know that there are other interfaces by which you can operate the raw data of National Library of Medicine , they are EBSCO and ISI
That is the same source of information “MEDLINE” can be read via Pubmed , EBCSO and ISI



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