PubMed has citation information (i.e., title, author, journal, publication date) and abstracts of published articles and books. PubMed includes the MEDLINE® database, citations for articles in PubMed Central (PMC) the free full-text archive, articles that report on research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and citations for books from the NCBI online Bookshelf (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books).
PubMed includes links to the full text from various sources:
UHSP library: When full text is NOT available, you will be directed to our interlibrary loan request form
PubMed Central (PMC) archive
Publisher's websites: The sites will often ask you to PAY for the article
Provides access to articles in national & international medical research journals and citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books; subject coverage includes medicine, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and health care. PubMed Tutorial
See the figure below to understand the Pubmed search results page.
See the image below to identify the parts of a PubMed item record.
