On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Dean Giustini <
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> 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