Access to MEDLINE & National Library of Medicine Resources

OSU ID HOLDERS that wish to access these databases from OFF-CAMPUS must first log into EZProxy. To learn more about EZProxy and off-campus access, please read Off-Campus Access to Library Resources.

Open to everyone. No OSU ID needed.

OSU offers three ways to access MEDLINE:

PubMed (via National Library of Medicine)

• NOTE: This version of MEDLINE includes out of scope citations from a selected group of MEDLINE indexed journals, citations preceeding the date of journal inclusion in MEDLINE, additional life sciences journals that submit full text to PubMed Central and pass qualitative review by NLM.
• NOTE: To search subject subsets choose the subset from the 'Limits' screen (AIDS (equivalent to searching AIDSLINE), Complementary Medicine (complementary and alternative medicine), Core Clinical Journals, Dental Journals (Index to Dental Literature), MEDLINE (does not include the additional content listed in the bullet above in this description), Nursing Journals (International Nursing Index NOT CINAHL), Toxicology (toxicology subset NOT ToxNET).
• NOTE: Can export results to Reference Manager and EndNote.
• Updated continuously
• Coverage 1966-present
• Access MEDLINE (via PubMed)

MEDLINE (via EBSCO)

• NOTE: This version of MEDLINE includes additional information from AIDSLINE (AIDS information 1980-present, updated weekly), BIOETHICSLINE (Ethics and related public policy issues in health care and biomedical research, 1973-present), and HealthSTAR (Health policy and administration)
• NOTE: Can export results to Reference Manager and EndNote.
• Coverage: 1966 - present unless otherwise noted
• Access MEDLINE (via EBSCO) (OSU ID required)

MEDLINE (via Web of Science)

• NOTE: This version of MEDLINE includes records from OLDMEDLINE, which covers the biomedical literature from 1950-1965. These records lack some of the detailed indexing evident in MEDLINE records.
• NOTE: Can export results to Reference Manager and EndNote.
• Coverage: MEDLINE 1966 - present
• Coverage: OLDMEDLINE 1950 - 1965
• Access MEDLINE (via Web of Science) (OSU ID required)

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