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PubMed – Literature database National Library of Medicine, USA

General Information

Name

PubMed – Literature database National Library of Medicine, USA

URL

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=PubMed

Description

Bibliographic information incl. abstracts about medicinal journal articles from 1954 onwards (17 Mio citations including 260 000 tagged as “historical article”)

Keyword language

English

Remarks

Particularly useful for drug therapy history

 

Search strategy

Form

One search field

Type of search

Fulltext

Connection of keywords

Automatically AND

Possible: OR, NOT

Truncation

* at word end

Phrases

“…..”

Search Limits

In „advanced word search“: Publ. date, -place, -type, -language, publisher

Search should be limited to “Historical article” (mark box on page “limits” or add

AND "historical article"[Publication Type]

to search box

Example

History of the NSAIDs aspirin and diclofenac

(aspirin OR diclofenac) AND  "historical article"[Publication Type]

Detailed description

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/pubmed.html