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MEDLINE with Full Text (via Ebsco)

Access

If required login using your university email address and password.

The new look Ebsco interface is now live.  

We have the following guides to help you use the new website:
Quick Guide to Using Ebsco Eresources  
Advanced Searching in Ebsco Eresources 
Subject searching

Key updates:

  • Searching functionality stays the same in terms of entering keywords, building search strategies and viewing results
  • Any previous saved searches you had should have carried over into this new look
  • Ability to save and download more results than previously
  • A ‘Recent Activity’ log of searches and viewed records
  • New ‘Add to Project’ feature to save results for specific named projects
  • A new MyEbsco area which includes access to projects, saved items and recent activity log

If you previously created custom folders in the old version you will get a report to work with when you first login again.  Visit the Ebsco guidance for assistance with this. 

Any queries please email skills@cumbria.ac.uk  

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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