Internet Grateful Med

With the arrival of the World Wide Web and its ability to facilitate global communication came the opportunity to expand the services of the NLM. In 1997, the cumbersome methods of searching the MEDLINE database were replaced with user-friendlier search systems, namely Internet Grateful Med and PubMed. Moreover, searching via these resources was now free. These search systems fueled a 10-fold increase in the use of MEDLINE to 75 million searches annually. Today, more than 250 million MEDLINE searches are performed each year. In addition to MEDLINE, users can access almost any of the NLM databases from the NLM health information page, http //www.nlm.nih.gov/hinfo.html. 

Grateful Med. Since 1998, Internet Grateful Med searches MEDLINE using the PubMed retrieval engine. 

MEDLINE Search via PubMed or via Internet Grateful Med (below) Can be searched using NLM s controlled vocabulary, MeSH, or by author name, title word, text word, journal name, phrase, alone or in combination. The result of a search is a list of citations (including authors, title, source, and often an abstract) to journal articles. 

Internet Grateful Med www.igm.nlm.nih.gov Launched in 1997 to provide free access via the World Wide Web to MEDLINE. Also provides access to 14 other NLM databases. ... 

Table 3 Choosing PubMed versus Internet Grateful Med...

The Internet Grateful Med Web site provides a variety of database accesses to a variety of searches including MEDLINE, AIDS line, AIDS drugs, AIDS trials, Chemical Identification, NIH Clinical Alerts, and a variety of other very useful access sites. 

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