Bibliographical database, with abstracts, on biomedical literature. From 1966-date. There is also an additional database called ExtraMed (see separate entry) covering developing country publications.
Available in several formats:
(a) Pubmed: provides free access to over 11 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960’s and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources. >http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi
(b) Medplus: Available free on (free) registration as Medplus on Medscape WWW (from 1966 onwards) http://www.medscape.com
(c) BioMedNet offers an Evaluated Medline service (with Medline records linked to full text articles form major journals (a fee is charged for each full-text article downloaded), selected citation links and evaluation/recommendations made by experts. Registration (free) is required: database access is then free. Data from 1966 onwards http://research.bmn.com/medline
(d) as a commercial online database (via Dialog (file 154 (1985 onwards), 155 (complete)), STN, Questel, NLM).
(e) On CDROM (from Silverplatter)