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This blog is created to raise awareness about the importance and value of libraries among the people of our country, special importance is given to exhibit contribution of health science librarians in health and social care within institutions and in nation building.
The health science librarians provide information resources to support health care. They encourage widespread use of health information among doctors, medical students, nurses, physiotherapists, dietitians, social workers and researchers.
The technological advancement has enabled libraries to move beyond the four walls of a building, as a result, we, the librarians strive to meet the health information needs of a larger community and try to amend health information delivery at every region, so that people live better, healthier, happier and more productive lives.

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Tuesday, February 19, 2013

 MEDLINE versus PubMed (Journal citation databases of U.S. NLM )

MEDLINE is available since 1960 covering over 20 million citations from 5600 scholarly biomedical and life science  journals published  around the world. It  covers citations from 1946 onwards.

PubMed was launched in 1996 covers more than 22 million references include citations from PubMed Central (PMC), in process citations etc. AND MEDLINE is a subset of PubMed.

Searching to these databases is free of charge AND does not require any registration so just delve on to find citations and many FULL TEXT  articles on the NLM Databases.

Find more information about these on National Library of Medicine website


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