PubMed is a version of MEDLINE provided by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Center for Biotechnology Information. Although it was originally designed to link genetic sequence data to the published literature, it is now used by many people to search MEDLINE, plus other data sets like PREMEDLINE (newly published articles not yet indexed in MEDLINE) and OLDMEDLINE (articles indexed before 1966; currently goes back to the 1950's). For more information about PubMed, see the NLM PubMed Fact Sheet.
The NLM Gateway is an interface that allows multi-resource searching of NLM information resources. Search results are grouped by type of resource (Journals, Books/Serials/Audiovisuals, Meeting Abstracts, Databanks, and Consumer Health). For more information about the Gateway, see the Nov-Dec 2000 article from the NLM Technical Bulletin.
Assessing an Information Need [PDF]
Using PubMed - [PDF]
New! PubMed Step-by-Step Search Guide [PDF]
Accessing Online Articles through PubMed [PDF]
PubMed FAQs - from NLM
MEDLINE Comparison Table [PDF]
What's the difference between MEDLINE and PubMed? - from NLM
General Tutorials
Tutorials for Specific PubMed FeaturesTo search PubMed, go to the Library's home page and click on the MEDLINE link; or go directly to PubMed. To search the NLM Gateway, go directly to NLM. Access to PubMed and the NLM Gateway is free to anyone on the Internet, though access to many of the full text materials through these resources is restricted to those who are on campus or who are registered with the Mulford Library.
Mulford Reference Assistance at (419) 383-4218 or MulfordReference@utoledo.edu. Chat and IM reference is also available.
