PubMed

PubMed is an English-language text-based meta- database of medical articles based on the total area of ​​biomedicine of the National Medical Library of the United States ( National Library of Medicine, NLM). Each entry in the PubMed is a PubMed ID ( PMID, Eng. PubMed identifier) ​​assigned. PubMed provides free access to MEDLINE, OLDMEDLINE ( before 1966 ) and PubMed Central.

The database was developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information ( National Center for Biotechnology Information, NCBI). The database is accessible via Entrez Gene, the central search system for major medical databases including PubMed, PubChem, nucleotide and protein sequences, protein structures, complex genomes and others. You can query the database both via the Internet browser or via a programming interface ( API).

PubMed documented medical articles in professional journals and is equipped with links to full-text journals. It is a bibliographic reference database ( references of journal articles: more than 22 million " quotes "). The functional area includes medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, public health, psychology, biology, genetics, biochemistry, cell biology, biotechnology, biomedical, etc. Listed are 5635 ( August 2012) biomedical journals. Every year, growing to approximately 500,000 documents PubMed. The indexing is based on Medical Subject Headings ( MeSH).