What IS MEDLINE?

• MEDLINE is the online counterpart to the MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System (MEDLARS) that originated in 1964.
  • It is the major part of the PubMed literature database, developed and maintained by the NLM National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
  • It includes literature published from 1966 to present, and selected coverage of literature prior to that period.
  • Several academic aggregators / search platform companies provide proprietary platforms for searching MEDLINE; the Whittemore Library gets our MEDLINE search interface from Ebsco.

What's the Difference Between MEDLINE and PubMed?

PubMed® contains more than 38 million citations for biomedical literature from 

• MEDLINE
• life science journals
• online books

PubMed is a free online search interface.  Citations may include links to full text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites

MEDLINE's Basic Search Page

If you're used to using RamSearch or other Ebsco databases, the general layout of MEDLINE's simple search page will look very familiar - one search box, and a few buttons allowing the searcher to limit their search results after they run their first search.

MEDLINE's Advanced Search Page

Access the Advanced Search Page by clicking the "Advanced Search" link just above the Basic search box to the right.