12 Facts About PubMed

PubMed is a free search engine accessing primarily the MEDLINE database of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics.

PubMed, first released in January 1996, ushered in the era of private, free, home- and office-based MEDLINE searching.

The PubMed system was offered free to the public starting in June 1997.

PubMed has been reported to include some articles published in predatory journals.

New PubMed interface was launched in October 2009 and encouraged the use of such quick, Google-like search formulations; they have been described as 'telegram' searches.

Simple searches on PubMed can be carried out by entering key aspects of a subject into PubMed's search window.

Optimal searches in PubMed, it is necessary to understand its core component, MEDLINE, and especially of the MeSH controlled vocabulary used to index MEDLINE articles.

In 2016, PubMed allows authors of articles to comment on articles indexed by PubMed.

In February 2018, PubMed Commons was discontinued due to the fact that "usage has remained minimal".

Lu identifies a sample of 28 current and free Web-based PubMed versions, requiring no installation or registration, which are grouped into four categories:.

Data accessible by PubMed can be mirrored locally using an unofficial tool such as MEDOC.

Millions of PubMed records augment various open data datasets about open access, like Unpaywall.