PubMed Search Engines Resource Guide

PubMed Search Engines Resource Guide

This information is provided by Margaret Henderson, Librarian VCU Libraries

There is more than one way to search the medical literature (PubMed) stored at the National Library of Medicine. Entrez is the search engine created by NLM to search PubMed, but just like there are multiple search engines to search the Internet (Google, Netscape, etc.) there are multiple engines that can be used to search PubMed. As different groups and people have needed different things from the literature, they have created front-ends or 3rd party tools to search the medical literature. Some of these PubMed interfaces are useful if your specific needs correspond to those of the search tool.

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