Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine® (NLM®), MEDLINE thoroughly covers biomedicine and the life sciences, bioengineering, public health, clinical care, and plant and animal science. It includes records from journals, newspapers, magazines, and newsletters. MEDLINE contains over 31 million records and approximately 1 million records are added annually from 83 countries.
MEDLINE contains millions of records of journal articles, review articles, clinical trials, letters and editorials in all areas of the life sciences, with particular emphasis on biomedicine, clinical medicine and experimental medicine. MEDLINE records are created by NLM and collaborating partners.
Source publications for MEDLINE cover basic biomedical research and the clinical sciences. Major subject areas include nursing, dentistry, public health, genetics, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, allied health, and pre-clinical sciences. MEDLINE also covers life sciences that are vital to biomedical practitioners, researchers, and educators, including some aspects of biology, environmental science, marine biology, plant and animal science as well as biophysics and chemistry. Increased coverage of life sciences began in 2000. By the end of 2001, most citations previously included in separate NLM specialty databases had also been added to MEDLINE.
Database Coverage: 1950 to present