LibGuides: Nursing: FNP Program Orientation: MEDLINE vs. PubMed

PubMed vs. MEDLINE

PubMed Central This link opens in a new window
PubMed comprises of citations for biomedical journal articles from MEDLINE (or queued to be included in MEDLINE in the future), other life science journals, and selected medical books.
The Stan State library link adds a code (?otool=cacsuslib) to tell PubMed to add a Find It! link to let you access Stan State library subscriptions or an Interlibrary Loan request form for an article.

Adding Find It! via CSU Stanislaus to PubMed

Use the Stan State link to PubMed. (Any PubMed link from a library page.)
Create a PubMed account. In your PubMed account, under Settings / Account Preferences / Outside Tool, add Find It! @ CSU Stanislaus.

The Find It! services will link to full-text online if the journal is covered by Stan State library subscription. If the library does not own the article, Find It! should link to a OneSearch services page with a "Get a copy" or Interlibrary Loan request form.

MEDLINE (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) premier bibliographic database that contains more than 29 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine. A distinctive feature of MEDLINE is that the records are indexed with (and research is traceable through) NLM Medical Subject Headings (MeSH).
To get the full-text of articles, use the "Find It" button to access CSU Stanislaus library article sources and Get It services.
MEDLINE (Web of Knowledge) This link opens in a new window
The Web of Knowledge has more exact searching for articles in the MEDLINE database.
Subjects include biomedicine and life sciences, bioengineering, public health, clinical care, and plant and animal science.

If Web of Knowledge MEDLINE does not have a Find It! button, look for the "Context sensitive link"

PubMed vs. MEDLINE

Both databases search a similar group of medical literature (mostly medical journals) compiled by the NLM. PubMed includes "future MEDLINE" articles that have not yet been fully indexed (assigned detailed MeSH / Medical Subject Headings), as well as a small amount of additional content (from life sciences journals and selected medical books).
All MEDLINE content is from a medical journals and all content includes detailed indexing according to carefully conrolled and applied Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), insuring all research on a specific content is accessible under standardized terms.

Access to the full articles:

PubMed links to the publisher's site of most articles, and for some articles, but not all, the publishers free online access via their site.
For articles that are not free to the general public online, use the University Library (linked via Find It! or by visiting the library website) to access content already purchased by Stan State (or to have the library acquire a copy for you).