A
Guide to Searching
MEDLINE & MedlinePlus
Spartanburg Community College Library
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What
is MEDLINE?
- The National Library of Medicine's
free online database that contains 10 million references to journal articles in the health
sciences dating back to 1966
- MEDLINE is available on the Web at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/
What is MEDLINEPlus?
- Easy-to-understand resource on
various diseases and health topics for the public
- Includes FULL
TEXT information from MEDLINE,
links to self-help groups, health organizations, medical dictionaries, and clinical trials
- Available at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/
Search Tips-
- Use quotation marks around a phrase
- Use AND, OR, and NOT
- children AND leukemia
- vitamin c OR zinc
- palsy NOT cerebral
- Remember to limit by date
if needed
Are the articles on
MEDLINE full text?
- No - citation and abstract
(summary) only
- MedlinePlus is
FULL TEXT
How do I access the entire
article in Medline?
- Contact a library staff member to
order article(s) through interlibrary loan. There is a $1 charge per article.
- If you are affiliated with a
medical library, you may order the article through their Loansome Doc service.
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Last update
09/17/2008