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MEDLINE with Full Text (via Ebsco)

Access

If required login using your university email address and password.

All EBSCO databases are moving to a new interface on the 5th August.

If you have Saved searches and records, these will be automatically transferred.

Custom folders and Alerts will not transfer.  The new interface will give you an option to download a report of your old folders (In projects) but this is a large unwieldy file.  There a few things you can do in the current site to avoid this:

  • Delete any custom folders you no longer need.
  • If you have saved searches in a custom folder, you can select it and "Move to" the Saved searched folder.
  • Back up saved items in RefWorks.
  • Search Alerts will need to be retrieved and saved as a search to be recreated in the new interface.
  • Journal alerts will need to be set up in the new interface, so keep a list.

Full Details

MEDLINE is a Full-text version of PubMed, the U.S. National Library of Medicine journal citation database covering medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.  This version includes citations from 5,200 scholarly journals and full-text from more than 1,450. Its articles have been assigned MeSH (Medical subject headings) indexing within a tree hierarchy of subheadings and explosion capabilities. You can use this as an alternative way to search for articles, see the guide to Subject searching.

PubMed vs MedLine. Some people find the search easier in Pubmed and it searches wider content but it does not provide full-text, just occasional links to freely available content. MEDLINE is better for targeted Medical subject searching (has better indexing) and quick access to the full-text content.

Date Range

Coverage dating back to 1949 and full-text back to 1965.

Size

1450 full-text journals.

Features

Simple and advanced search options.
Search specific journals.

Search Tips

Can search using MeSH terminology.

Other information

A tutorial is available from the website.

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