The U.S. National Library of Medicine produces MEDLINE®, which is hosted on ProQuest. With coverage from 1946 to the present, the database contains millions of citations derived from thousands of biomedical and life science journals and indexed with Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®) from the NLM-controlled vocabulary. YOu can search by keywords or use MeSH subjects and its thesaurus for more specificity.
PubMed® is an abstracting and indexing database that includes MEDLINE and most of PubMed Central®. Abstracting and indexing means there is no full-text content. Instead, the access provided by PubMed is links to the publisher's websites and/or to PubMed Central®.
What do you do if there is no full text?
Use the library's InterLibrary Loan (ILL) service to obtain the full text of an article that is not in PubMed Central®. Never pay fees suggested by publishers to get an article reprint. ILL is a free service for Trevecca students and faculty. Click here to learn more about ILL or make a request.
