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ABOUT MEDLINE
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MEDLINE is sold by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to commercial vendors and software producers. 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 the OVID software, and has named our system, BUMC MEDLINE Plus/OVID.

The OVID "Database Selection" screen below shows you the databases and time ranges that are available for searching:


Database Field Guide Ovid MEDLINE(R) 1996 to [The current week]
Database Field Guide Ovid MEDLINE(R) Daily Update [For the current day]
Database Field Guide Ovid MEDLINE(R) 1966 to [The current week]
Database Field Guide Your Journals@Ovid
Database Field Guide CINAHL - Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature 1982 to [The current week]
Database Field Guide EBM Reviews Full Text - Cochrane DSR, ACP Journal Club, and DARE
Database Field Guide EBM Reviews - ACP Journal Club 1991 to [The current month]
Database Field Guide EBM Reviews - Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials 1st Quarter [The current year]
Database Field Guide EBM Reviews - Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 4th Quarter [The current year]
Database Field Guide EBM Reviews - Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects 1st Quarter [The current year]
Database Field Guide Ovid MEDLINE(R) In-Process & Other Non-Indexed Citations and Ovid MEDLINE(R) 1966 to Present
Database Field Guide Ovid OLDMEDLINE(R) 1950 to 1965

Most searchers use the MEDLINE "front file" which dates from 1996 to the present time.