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Ah, if you cut and paste the links into your web address line.......they should work On 20 August 2012 13:19, Patricia Anderson <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Dean, that link sends me to a UBC login page ... :( - Patricia > > On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Dean Giustini <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > I think the terms PubMed & MEDLINE create confusion for users the world > > over. If you are interested in why, continue reading. If not, safely > delete > > this message. > > > > As I indicate here http://hlwiki.slais.ubc.ca/index.php/PubMed_-_MEDLINE > > > > MEDLINE is part of PubMed; PubMed, however, contains a number of > additional > > elements (as Ahmed kindly pointed out). > > Here are PubMed's total citations as of today > > http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=all[sb] > > As Connie says, all citations destined for MEDLINE are indexed; if they > > aren't meant to be in MEDLINE, they may still have index terms (see PMID: > > http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22667080) > > > > Keep in mind that the National Library of Medicine leases MEDLINE > > information to private vendors such as OVID Technologies, EBSCO and > > SilverPlatter. They create files such as MEDLINE 2007-2012 (including "in > > process" citations) which have not been indexed yet. > > > > > > I hope this helps. ~Dean Giustini, UBC biomed librarian > > > > -- > Patricia Anderson, [log in to unmask] > Emerging Technologies Librarian > University of Michigan > http://www.lib.umich.edu/users/pfa >