PubMed® Online and App Resources
Third party tools to access PubMed or the MEDLINE subset of PubMed
Check out the wide variety of alternative interfaces and access points to PubMed.gov. This is only a list of existing resources, no endorsement is offered or intended.
Information
- Alerts: PubMed New and Noteworthy
(Also available as: feed)
National Library of Medicine - Articles:
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PubMed and beyond: a survey of
web tools for searching biomedical literature:
Biomedical Literature Search Tools: Supporting information list
Zhiyong Lu, NCBI, 2011 -
NLM Technical Bulletin
(Includes detailed articles explaining changes to PubMed
and other NLM databases)
National Library of Medicine
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PubMed and beyond: a survey of
web tools for searching biomedical literature:
- Blogs:
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PubMed Commons Blog
National Library of Medicine -
PubMed Search
Strategies
Cindy Schmidt
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PubMed Commons Blog
- NLM:
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Gallery of Mobile Apps
and Sites
National Library of Medicine -
MeSH on Demand: Identify MeSH
Terms in a text
National Library of Medicine -
National Network of Libraries of Medicine, -
PubMed Brochures
National Network of Libraries of Medicine
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Gallery of Mobile Apps
and Sites
- Research guides and WIKIs:
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PubMed Alternative
Engines
University Libraries, American University of Beirut -
PubMed Alternative
Interfaces
Dean Giustini, University of British Columbi -
PubMed Alternatives
Margaret Henderson, Virginia Commonwealth University Tompkins-McCaw Library -
PubMed Alternatives
D. Samuel Gottesman Library, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
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PubMed Alternative
Engines
Search Engines
(m) indicates a mobile-enabled interface.
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Anne O'Tate
University of Illinois at Chicago -
BibliMed: a smart Medline interface
BiblioMed -
BioMedLib Search Engine
BioMedLib -
BioMedLib Review
BioMedLib -
BITOLA: Biomedical Discovery Support System. An
interactive literature-based biomedical discovery support
system
Dimitar Hristovski and Borut Peterlin -
EBI Search:
European Bioinformatics Institute -
FASTA+: Finding Associated Concepts with Text
Analysis
National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM), School of Computer Science, The University of Manchester -
Ask HelioBLAST: text similarity searching in
for relevant and informative content
HelioText -
HubMed:
PubMed rewired. An alternative interface to the PubMed
medical literature database
HubMed -
MedlineTrend: automated yearly statistics
of PubMed results for any query
Alexandra Dan Corlan -
MEDSUM: The MEDLINE Summary Tool
Mike Galsworthy, Institute for Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, University of Ljubljana -
MiSearch: Adaptive PubMed Search Tool
University of Michigan -
PMinstant: Search PubMed instantly
Johnathan Bouman -
POPLINE: Your connection to the world's
reproductive health literature
K4Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health -
PubGet: Find
papers fast
Ramy Arnaout, Ian Connor, Ryan Jones -
PubMed PubReMiner: Detailed analysis of
PubMed Search results
Jan Koster, Universiteit va Amsterdam -
PubPeer:
Search publications and join the conversation
PubPeer, LLC -
Quertle: Relationship-driven biomedical
search
JGeneDx; Ariadne -
SLIM:
Slider Interface for MEDLINE/PubMed searches
National Library of Medicine - (m) Unbound MEDLINE
Unbound Medicine -
XplorMed
Carolina Perez-Iratxeta, Peer Bork, Miguel A. Andrade -
Yale MeSH Analyzer: analze up to 20
PMIDs
Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale University.
Search Engines with Graphic Options
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COREMINE Medical: Explore connections - Build
your biomedical mindmap.
Coremine Medical -
PubAnatomy: Integrated Exploration of
Biomedical Literature and Data
Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute, University of Michigan -
PubAtlas: Association Explorer
Consortium for Neuropsychiatric Phenomics -
PubNet: Publication Network Graph Utility. A
flexible system for visualizing literature-derived
networks
JSM Douglas, GT Montelione, M Gerstein -
PubVenn: Visual PubMed Search
Ed Sperr
Apps and Downloads
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PubMed4Hh (PubMed for
Handhelds)
For iPhone, iPod touch, iPad
National Library of Medicine -
PubMed On Tap
For iPhone, iPod touch, iPad
ReferencesOnTap -
Unbound MEDLINE
For iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, Android smartphone and tablet
Unbound Medicine
Mobile Interfaces
See above for mobile-enabled search engines, indicated with (m).
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BabelMeSH: a collection of multi-language
Search engines for MEDLINE/PubMed
National Library of Medicine -
NLM Mobile (with links to PubMed
sites)
National Library of Medicine -
PICO Linguist: searching MEDLINE/PubMed
for PICO (Patient, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome)
results
National Library of Medicine -
PubGet Mobile
Ramy Arnaout, Ian Connor, Ryan Jones -
PubMed for Handhelds
National Library of Medicine- askMEDLINE: free-text, natural language (English only) query for MEDLINE/PubMed
- Disease Associations: with GSpell
- MEDLINE/PubMed Journal Browser
- MeSH Speller + askMEDLINE
- PICO: Search PubMed/MEDLINE via PICO with Spelling Checker
- Search MEDLINE/PubMed
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PubMed Mobile
National Library of Medicine -
Txt2MEDLINE: Search MEDLINE/PubMed by
SMS
(text messaging system)
National Library of Medicine
Multilingual Resources
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BabelMeSH: a collection of multi-language
Search engines for MEDLINE/PubMed
National Library of Medicine -
MeSH Terms Lookup: Translate option
available
National Library of Medicine -
PICO Linguist: searching MEDLINE/PubMed
for PICO (Patient, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome)
results
National Library of Medicine -
Non-English Guides to
PubMed
National Library of Medicine
Browser Add-ons
API and Related Information
- NLM APIs
- Building Customized Data Pipelines Using the Entrez Programming Utilities (eUtils)
- Entrez Programming Utilities Help
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