FAQ: Former Databases
Question: Why can't I find this NLM® product?
Answer:
The following NLM products no longer exist. See recommendations below for finding their content:
- AIDSDRUGS
- AIDSLINE®
- AIDSTRIALS
- AVLINE®
- BIOETHICSLINE®
- CATLINE®
- HealthSTAR
- HISTLINE®
- Internet Grateful Med (IGM)
- Journals Database
- Locator
- Mulitple Congenital Anomaly/Mental Retardation (MCA/MR) Syndromes
- OLDMEDLINE
- POPLINE
- SERLINE®
- SPACELINE
For AIDS information, see:
- AIDSinfo®
http://www.aidsinfo.nih.gov/ - Fact Sheet: AIDS Information Resources
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/aidsinfs.html - HIV/AIDS Information
http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/hiv.html - MEDLINE/PubMed limited to the AIDS subset
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed&orig_db=PubMed&cmd_current=Limits&pmfilter_Subsets=AIDS - NLM Gateway
http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov
For AVLINE, CATLINE, SERLINE or LOCATOR content, use:
- LocatorPlus®
http://www.locatorplus.gov - NLM Catalog
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=nlmcatalog
Citations that were in BIOETHICSLINE, HealthSTAR, HISTLINE, OLDMEDLINE, POPLINE, AND SPACELINE are now in MEDLINE®. Use PubMed® or the NLM Gateway (instead of Internet Grateful Med) to search for them:
- PubMed
http://pubmed.gov - NLM Gateway
http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov
The POPLINE database is now maintained by the INFO Project at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Center for Communication Programs
http://www.popline.org/
Some additional sources of information about the database changes, PubMed or the NLM Gateway are:
- The Reorganization of National Library of Medicine® (NLM) Bibliographic Databases
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/conversion/conversion_status.html - Number of Titles Currently Indexed for Index Medicus® and Medline on PubMed
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/num_titles.html - PubMed FAQs
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/faq.html - Fact Sheet PubMed®: MEDLINE® Retrieval on the World Wide Web
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/pubmed.html - Gateway FAQs
http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/gw/Cmd?FAQ.x - Fact Sheet: The NLM Gateway
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/gateway.html
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