MEDLINE is produced by the National Library of Medicine (USA) and is the world's leading bibliographical database for Medicine and Biomedicine. There are over 18 million citations from approx. 4,800 journals, dating back to 1950. MEDLINE is updated daily and has links to full-text documents.
A special feature of MEDLINE is the use of the controlled vocabulary MESH, a very well-maintained thesaurus arranged hierarchically.
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MEDLINE can be accessed through ProQuest, OvidSP or PubMed interfaces.
Access
Access to this database is restricted to the ethz.ch domain. Go to PubMed to access the free version of MEDLINE. If you have any technical problems or questions about access rights, please contact the Database Helpdesk.
Courses
Courses are held by appointment. They explain the various search strategies and features using specific examples.
