NCBI使用手册（英文）ch2.PubMed The Bibliographic Database.pdf

Kathi Canese, et al. PubMed: The Bibliographic Database 2. PubMed: The Bibliographic Database Kathi Canese, Jennifer Jentsch, and Carol Myers Created: October 9, 2002 Updated: August 13, 2003 Summary PubMed is a database developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), one of the institutes of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The database was designed to provide access to citations (with abstracts) from biomedical journals. Subsequently, a linking feature was added to provide access to full-text journal articles at Web sites of participating publishers, as well as to other related Web resources. PubMed is the bibliographic component of the NCBIs Entrez retrieval system. Data Sources MEDLINE® PubMeds primary data resource is MEDLINE, the NLMs premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences, such as molecular biology. MEDLINE contains bibliographic citations and author abstracts from about 4,600 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 other countries. The database contains about 12 million citations dating back to the mid-1960s. Coverage is worldwide, but most records are from English-language sources or have English abstracts. Non-MEDLINE ® In addition to MEDLINE citations, PubMed provides access to non-MEDLINE resources, such as out-of-scope citations, citations that precede MEDLINE selection, and PubMed Central (PMC; see Chapter 9) citations. Together, these are often referred to as “PubMed-only citations.” Out-of- scope citations are primarily from general science and chemistry journals tha