PubMed is maintained by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and it is considered the premier biomedical database providing access to MEDLINE and additional references in nursing & allied health, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system and general sciences.
- Available externally, although connecting from the Mayo intranet is suggested to access the library's journal subscriptions
- Updated almost daily with new citations
- Citations date back to 1946
- Searches using Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
- Clinical Queries allow for easy filtering of topics in the areas of therapy, diagnosis, etiology, prognosis or medical genetics
- Can search by grant number (use [GR] field tag)
- May obtain an overwhelming number of results if not using advanced search techniques
- Proximity searching is not available via the advanced searching option
- Conference abstracts are not indexed
