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    12/4/2017 What'sthedifferencebetweenPubMed,Medline&Embase?

    ResearchTipsLibGuidesatKingEdwardMemorialHospital
    What'sthedifferencebetweenPubMed,Medline&Embase?

    WhatisPubMed? WhatisMedline? WhatisEmbase?

    AsubsetofPubMed(actuallyabout98%)
    OnlineversionofIndexMedicusproducedbytheUS madeavailablebyNLMtocommercial
    AnElsevierdatabase.
    NationalLibraryofMedicine(NLM). suppliers.
    FreelyavailableontheInternet. Availablebysubscriptionthroughanumberof
    Availablebysubscriptionthroughanumber
    interfaces.AtKEMHwehavetheOVIDinterface.
    ofinterfaces.AtKEMHwehavetheOVID
    interface.

    CoverageofPubMed CoverageofMedline CoverageofEmbase

    Backto1966andselectivelyto1809.
    Containsover25millionrecords.Inadditionto
    Backto1947andselectivelyto1902.
    Medline,Pubmedcontains:
    Containsover29millionrecordsfrommorethan
    Backto1946.
    1.'inprocess'citations 8,500journalsfromatleast90countries.
    Containsover22millionrecordsfrom5,600
    2.someoldercitations IncludesallofMedlineplusover2,000extratitles
    mainlyUSjournals.
    3.citationstononmedicaljournals (includingmoreEUjournals)and260,000
    Somefulltextand'Findit@WNHS'links.
    4.citationstoebooks conferenceabstracts.
    Subjectcoverage=medical&biomedical
    Somefulltextand'Findit@WNHS'links.
    Somefreefulltext(PubMedCentral)&'Findit@ sciences.
    Subjectcoverage=Medline+drug&pharmacy
    WNHS'linksifaccessedthroughlibrary
    journals.
    Subjectcoverage=medical,biomedical&life
    sciences.

    SearchingPubMed SearchingMedline SearchingEmbase

    AdvancedSearchwithguidedmappingof
    keywordstoEmtree(MeSHplussynonyms)
    Easykeywordsearchingandautomaticmappingto AdvancedSearchoffersguidedmappingof
    terms.
    MeSHterms. keywordstoMeSHterms
    Basic'naturallanguage'searchwithsynonym
    Nosubheadingselection. Searchtopicsmaybelimitedbyselecting
    searching&relevanceranking.
    Resultsmaybelimitedtoreviewsandfulltext. subheadings
    Subheadingsincludespecificdrugrelatedtopics.
    'ClinicalQueries'allowssearchingforclinicaltrials, Variouslimiters,includingEBMReviewsand
    Extensivelimitingoptionsavailable,including
    systematicreviewsandmedicalgeneticstopics typesofclinicalquery.
    typesofEBM,clinicaltrials&routesofdrug
    administration.

    OtherFeaturesofPubMed OtherFeaturesofMedline OtherFeaturesofEmbase

    'Relatedcitations',includinghighlightingofreview
    articles.Linkfromaparticularresulttosystematic 'FindSimilar'and'FindCitingArticles'. 'FindSimilar'and'FindCitingArticles'.
    reviewsreferencingthatstudy. Registertosavesearches,createemail Registertosavesearches,createemailalerts&
    Registerwith'MyNCBI'tosavesearches,setup alerts&RSSfeeds. RSSfeeds.
    alerts&customisefilters CitationsmaybeexportedtoEndNote. CitationsmaybeexportedtoEndNote.
    CitationsmaybeexportedtoEndNote.

    UsePubMed: UseMedline: UseEmbase:

    Ifyouareunabletoaccesssubscriptiondatabases. ForguidedEmtreesubjectsearching(including
    Foreasykeywordsearching(automaticallymapsto ForguidedMeSHsubjectsearching. MeSH).
    MeSH). Forextensivemedicalsubheadingsand Forgreatbasic,naturallanguagesearch.
    Forclinicalqueries. othersearchlimitingoptions. Fordrug/pharmacytopics(coverageplus
    Forgeneticstopics. subheadingoptions)
    Tobeofferedrelatedcitationsandlinkstosystematic Topickuprecentarticles&conferencepapers.
    reviewscitingastudy. Forextensivesearchlimitingoptions.

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