1 An Examination of Medline: A National Library of Medicine Bioscience Database

Medline is just one of the specialty databases maintained by the United States National Library of Medicine and accessed through PubMed. Medline is indexed using the NLM controlled vocabulary, MeSH. MeSH is also the most efficient way to search Medline. The web access to Medline, PubMed is also a part of NCBI’s Entrez family of life science databases. This paper will examine in brief the history of Medline, its content, management, and structure and, the evolution of the online PubMed interface. Brief History of Medline and PubMed The National Library of Medicine (NLM) began the world’s largest healt