MEDLINE (via ISI Web of Knowledge)

Description

Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE is the premier database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and the pre-clinical sciences. MEDLINE can also be accessed via OVID and SciFinder Scholar search systems.

The Web of Knowledge version allows ranked analysis of search results by author, Medical Subject Headings (MESH), publication type & year, and journal title. It also provides direct access to the Web of Science citation information for any MEDLINE article. MEDLINE uses controlled vocabulary, (MeSH), for indexing articles.Using MeSH in search queries will help retrieve information that uses different terminology for the same concept.

Leads to citations to journal articles from several thousand international biomedical journals.

Dates Covered

1950 to the present. Updated weekly.

Print Counterpart

No print counterpart.

Related Databases

· MEDLINE via OVID: (1966 to present) - restricted to UB faculty, staff, and students.
MEDLINE via HUBNET: open to participating HUBNET institutions.

Access Notes

Off-Campus Access to Libraries resources requires a UBITName and password.

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