1. PubMed PubMed is the free interface that provides access to the MEDLINE bibliographic database of the National Library of Medicine.

2. Medline  indexes literature in medicine, nursing, dentistry, pharmacology, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the pre-clinical sciences.  contains bibliographic citations and abstracts from more than 4,800 biomedical journals

3. Medline  is international  includes more than 14 million citations  covers from the mid-1960’s to today  can also be searched through FirstSearch

4. PubMed Tutorials  Galter Library of Northwestern University has an excellent, user friendly PubMed tutorial available at: http://www.galter.northwestern.edu/t utorials/pubmed/

5. PubMed Tutorials  Mount Sinai School of Medicine also has an easy to use PubMed tutorial at: http://www.mssm.edu/library/tutorials /pubmed.html

6. Link to PubMed  Can be accessed at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query. fcgi?db=PubMed  Both brief and indepth search technique tutorials are available at: www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/pubmed.html

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