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Enhancing PubMed: from a Medical Database to beyond
An introduction to tools supporting PubMed
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Author
- Xuzeng He (ORCID: 0009–0005–7317–7426)
Introduction
PubMed is a free Web literature search service developed and maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), and it is also a part of NCBI’s Entrez retrieval system that provides access to a diverse set of 38 databases. PubMed currently includes citations and abstracts from over 5000 life science journals for biomedical articles dating back to 1948. Since its inception, PubMed has served as the primary tool for electronically searching and retrieving biomedical literature. Every day, users worldwide issue millions of queries, relying on its access to stay updated on the latest developments and make discoveries in their respective fields.
In this post, we introduce some efforts made by various researchers to make PubMed more useful in different directions.
PubMed Labs
As the biomedical literature grows at an exponential rate, the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine has recently developed…
