Medline (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online), a literature database of life sciences and biomedical information, was operational at the National Library of Medicine. It was initially a database production of the printed Index Medicus.
By 2008 Medline ontained "more than 18 million" records from approximately 5,000 selected publications covering biomedicine and health from 1950 to the present.
Filed under: Bibliography, Indexing & Searching Information, Libraries , Medicine, Science
