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The premier, comprehensive biomedical database from one of the leading sources of medical and healthcare and available on OvidSP.

Updated daily, MEDLINE on OvidSP offers you seamless and up-to-the-minute access to the latest bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 3,900 biomedical journals published in more than 70 countries. Astracts are included more than 75% of the records.

The full MEDLINE product on OvidSP includes:

- Access to Ovid MEDLINE In-Process & Other Non-Indexed Citations, which is Ovid's collection of non-indexed NLM records, both the in-process records as well as PubMed records not in MEDLINE.

- Access to OLDMEDLINE: the National Library of Medicine's online database of approximately 1,700,000 citations to articles from international biomedical journals covering the fields of medicine, preclinical sciences and allied health sciences from 1948 through 1965.

- Subject limits based on PubMed's subject subsets. The addition of these subsets allows users to easily restrict a broad search to their specific area of interest: AIDS, Bioethics, Cancer, Complementary Medicine, History of Medicine, Space Life Sciences, Systematic Reviews, Toxicology.

Other features include:

• Ovid Evidence-Based Medicine Reviews Limit provides quality filter to quickly identify authoritative and relevant evidence and also provides link to article and topic reviews (separate purchase necessary).
• Advanced mapping that analyzes users' natural language queries and suggests appropriate terms for searching.
• Graphical controlled vocabulary thesaurus that contains Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) to describe the subject of each journal.
• Emulation of "dot-dot" and NLM search syntax.

• Euro-Package: Medline/EBMR 2 users
• Euro-Package: Medline/EBMR 5 users

Product Description	Updated	Access	Status	Platform
Medline (1950-Date)	Weekly	Internet	Released	Ovid

• Evidence Based Medicine Reviews
• Circulation
• Neurology
• Obstetrics & Gynecology
• Stroke
• Anesthesia & Analgesia
• Critical Care Medicine
• Annals of Surgery
• Anesthesiology
• Spine