- Produced by NCBI, PubMed is part of the Entrez retrieval system of related biomolecular databases
- It includes MEDLINE, a premier NLM biomedical database of worldwide journal literature in medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, public health and the preclinical sciences
- It is an excellent database for finding some articles on most health/medicine topics.
- It citations come from more than 5,000 biomedical journals.
- PubMed has more than 21 million citations from the 1940's to the present.
- It includes very recent articles and updated each week. Coverage is current as participating publishers submit electronic citations daily
- It is free to anyone with internet access.
- PubMed includes links to full text at publisher or library web sites
