MEDLINE

Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine^® (NLM^®), MEDLINE thoroughly covers biomedicine and the life sciences, bioengineering, public health, clinical care, and plant and animal science. Includes records from journals, newspapers, magazines, and newsletters.

MEDLINE is the premier database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). It contains millions of records of journal articles in all areas of the life sciences, with particular emphasis on biomedicine. MEDLINE records are created by NLM and collaborating partners.

Source publications for MEDLINE cover basic biomedical research and the clinical sciences. Major subject areas include nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, allied health, and pre-clinical sciences. MEDLINE also covers life sciences that are vital to biomedical practitioners, researchers, and educators, including some aspects of biology, environmental science, marine biology, plant and animal science as well as biophysics and chemistry. Increased coverage of life sciences began in 2000. By the end of 2001, most citations previously included in separate NLM specialty databases had also been added to MEDLINE.

Database Coverage: 1950 to present