What is PubMed? “PubMed is a free resource that is developed and maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI ), that covers journal articles in medicine , nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine , and the health care system .”
Why Use PubMed? PubMed comprises over 24 million citations for biomedical literature,1,40,000 supplementary concepts, and online books of biomedicine and life sciences, behavioral sciences, chemical sciences, and bioengineering. It has information about 5,200 medical journal articles in 40 languages dating back to 1949,and updated daily from the publishers. PubMed also provides access to additional relevant web sites and links to the other NCBI molecular biology resources.
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