How to Choose a MEDLINE Service
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| Note: All versions of MEDLINE include article citations from these databases: HealthSTAR, AIDSLINE, BIOETHICSLINE, HISTLINE, POPLINE, SPACELINE & TOXLINE | ||||
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| Other Databases Included | Evidence- based medicine databases, Clinical Evidence,EMBASE Drugs & Pharm, HAPI,BIOSIS Previews,PsycINFO, Medweaver, PREMEDLINE, Journals@Ovid | PREMEDLINE. Also Molecular Biology,Taxonomy and Genetics databases. | AIDSLINE, CANCERLIT, Articles from 28 medical journals, 26 Clinics of North America and 33 Year Books from 1995 to present. |
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| Best Feature | Excellent interface, Complete Cochrane database. | The most current (a day or two ahead of Ovid). Related articles links. All years in one file. Single Citation Matcher. Clinical Queries. Linkouts. | All in one global search function, Related articles links, Practice guidelines, Drug, patient and news info. | |
| Worst Feature | Clunky citation verification. | Advance search capabilities not evident. Precision searching difficult. |
No explode capability, Clunky printing, No PreMEDLINE, Cannot email/ download complete sets. | |
| Coverage | 1966 - present | 1966 - present | 1966 - present | |
| Updates | daily | daily | weekly | |
| Fields | 30 fields/subfields using "other fields" list or field qualifiers. | 20 most common using pulldown list or field qualifiers. |
14 field qualifiers | |
| Appliable Limits | Evidence-based medicine, local holdings, fulltext, language, gender, age, species, 17 subsets, date, publication types. | Language, gender, age, species, date, publication type, 12 subsets. | Age, human/animal, reviews. | |
| Display Formats for sets | 4 + tailored | 5+ | One with no abstract | |
| Sortable | Yes | Yes | By relevancy or pub. date | |
| Marks Local Holdings | No | No | No | |
| Document Delivery | OHSU Copy Service | Loansome Doc | No | |
| Password Required | Only if saving search strategies or you are non-OHSU | For Loansome Doc and Cubby Service | Yes (self generated) | |
| Download Results | Yes | Yes | No | |
| E-mail Results | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Search Update Method | Automatic SDI; Save strategy | Bookmark in Easy Mode; Cubby Service |
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| Online Help | Context sensitive help within search session & OHSU how to's on Library Web page | Yes | Yes | |
| Availability | www.ohsu.edu/library/ovid/ | www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed is free to all. www.ohsu.edu/library /pubmed.shtml to include OHSU fulltext links. | home.mdconsult.com for OHSU www.merckmedicus.com for some health professionals | |
| Full-Text Links | Yes (select) | Yes (select) | Yes (select) | |
| Related Articles Link | No | Yes | Yes | |
| Additional Features | Concept mapping to MeSH; Same interface for non- MEDLARS databases; Ability to search by grant #. | Clinical Queries filters for diagnosis, prognosis, therapy, etiology. Citation Matcher for verification. MeSH Browser. OLDMEDLINE 1945-65 coming soon. | Clinical Query filters for diagnosis, prognosis, therapy,etiology. Cochrane reviews, clinical trials, opinions and literature reviews. Includes fulltext books, patient info, guidelines CME, and generic alerts | |
