Medline (Ovid or EBSCO) |
PubMed |
Embase |
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| Access | Available by subscription |
Freely available anywhere |
Available by subscription |
| Coverage |
1966 - present (+ selected older) Medical & biomedical sciences 26 million+ records
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1966 - present (+ selected older) Medline plus articles not yet added to Medline and additional life sciences content 29 million+ records |
1947 - present (+ selected older) PubMed plus additional international coverage and drug & pharmacy journals 32 million+ records Includes grey literature (e.g. conference abstracts) |
| Other Features |
'Find similar' and 'find citing articles' (Ovid); 'find similar results' (EBSCO)
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'Similar articles' Link from a result to systematic reviews that reference it
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'Find similar' and 'find citing articles' Device-specific and pharmacovigilance search options
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| Strengths |
Guided MeSH subject searching |
Automatic mapping to MeSH terms Recent publications Clinical queries & genetics topics Free & available anywhere |
Guided Emtree subject searching Recent publications & conference papers Drug & pharmacy topics |
