The difference between the three is a little confusing, but the information below will try to make it clearer.
MEDLINE, maintained by the National Library of Medicine, is a collection of about 5,600 scholarly journals in the fields of medicine and life sciences dating back to 1946.
As a Camosun student, you can search the Medline collection using three different search interfaces. Each one provides slightly different options, which may influence your preference for one over the other. But these differences in functionality can also mean you get slightly different results in each, so it can be a good idea to try all three.
From the U.S. National Library of Medicine. In addition to MEDLINE articles, you have access to PubMed Central papers (full text articles deposited to promote open access), articles that are “in process” i.e., prior to being indexed with MeSH terms, and articles submitted by publishers, “ahead of print.”
Points to keep in mind