The National Library of

Medicine online

resources

Salima M’seffar INH- Bibliotheque

m_salima2000@yahoo.fr

1. Information is well organized

2. Selection criteria applied by experts

3. Information is from known sources such as

peer reviewed journals, books and credible

institutions

4. Information is Free

5. About 272 online resources accessible

WHY?

Highlights of MEDLINE

• MEDLINE is a database of citations to published biomedical journal articles.

• MEDLINE has almost 19 million citations since 1946

• Currently, citations from approximately 5,600 worldwide journals in 39 languages

• NLM analyzes the content of MEDLINE

articles and assigns Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) to MEDLINE citations.

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MEDLINE’s Scope Evolves

See Journals Recently Accepted for Inclusion in MEDLINE.

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MEDLINE Basic Bibliographic Citation

Journal Source Information

Title of the journal article Names of the Authors

First Author Affiliation

 Abstract published with the article Language in which the article was published

Publication Type (description of the type of article, e.g., Review, Letter, etc.)

Controlled Vocabulary search terms (Medical Subject Headings)

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Country identified

MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) terms reflect the content of the article.

NLM assigns the most specific term possible.

You can search PubMed using MeSH. 7

* = a major concept.

Subheadings are used with MeSH headings to be more specific.

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PubMed

http://www.pubmed.gov/ 9

What’s in PubMed1% In Process

5% Other

94% MEDLINE

Includes: • records for online

books & chapters• out of scope articles

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MedlinePlus

AIDSInfo: http://aidsinfo.nih.gov/

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MIMCom: www.nlm.nih.gov/mimcom/

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As a conclusion…

• http://www.nlm.nih.gov/services/international.html