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CHOOSING
AN APPROPRIATE DATABASE
MEDLINE is sold by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to a variety of commercial vendors and software producers, including OVID, Inc. The NLM also mounts its own MEDLINE system, PubMed, on the Internet. The Alumni Medical Library of the Boston University Medical Center subscribes to MEDLINE on OVID, and has named our system, BUMC MEDLINE Plus.
Because MEDLINE is a very large
database, it has been segmented into smaller files covering different years. If
you are doing a comprehensive search, you may want to consider searching the full
MEDLINE database from 1966 to the present.
If you are only interested in current
information, or if your topic concerns a recent development, you may want to search
the current few years of MEDLINE. Most searches would use the "front file" which dates from 1996 to the present time. This front file includes all of the contents of the Journals@OVID database, all of the EBM-related databases, and all of the most recent MEDLINE files.
After you have browsed through the available database options, click on the "front file" -- MEDLINE <1996 to the present> to go to the next screen.
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-- To begin a search, click the name of the desired database.
-- To get more information about a database, click the information icon: 
-- Click the select more than one database to search tab to search up to 5 databases at once.
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