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MEDLINE: Information at a Glance

Resource Type

Online index with citations, abstracts, and links to full-text where available.

Subject Area

Medical, biomedical, nursing, dentistry, allied health, veterinary, and pre-clinical sciences

Availability
Trent - Access available to any valid Trent user, using their Novell Password in the Library, or at home through the PROXY SERVER.
How to Access

Click Here to Connect to MEDLINE via OVID.

For off campus access, learn how to use the proxy server
Description

MEDLINE contains a broad range of medical topics relating to research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, and health care services. Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE contains all records published in Index Medicus and since 2002, most citations previously included in separate NLM specialty databases such as SPACELINE and HISTLINE. Subject content includes anatomy; communication disorders; microbiology; paramedical professions; pathology; physiology; psychiatry; toxicology; dentistry; parasitology; reproductive biology; epidemiology; gene therapy; surgical and pharmaceutical intervention; nursing practice; ethical and legal issues; institutional operations; laboratory techniques and procedures; diagnosis and management; clinical research trials and experimental treatment protocols; legislation and regulation; allied health specialties; continuing education; investigational drugs and new drug uses, and some veterinary medicine.

Trent has access to MEDLINE on Scholars Portal Search. Using the Scholars Portal Search interface, you can simultaneously search several databases. Other databases on Scholars Portal Search include: Biology Digest, BioOne, PsycINFO, Social Services Abstracts, Sociological Abstracts, and TOXLINE among others.

Trent also has access to MEDLINE via OVID. Using the OVID search interface, you can simultaneously searching other databases including CINAHL, Evidence Based Medicine Reviews and HealthSTAR.

Notes

This database works with to locate full-text availability.

Coverage

OVID MEDLINE: 1950 - current

Scholars Portal MEDLINE: 1997 - current

Update Frequency
Weekly.
 
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