How many journals does medline index

Only citations for author manuscripts are included. PubMed: Selected citations only. Every article published in the journal will be indexed in PubMed but not in Medline. In order to be included in Medline, a journal has to undergo a rather rigorous and selective review process. Once a journal is officially included in Index Medicus , the records will undergo extensive processing, having MeSH headings applied to them and other value-adding indexing.

Medical Subject Headings MeSH describe the actual content of an article and provide details about the information discussed in the article. Usually headings are assigned to each record.

For example, an article entitled "Maxillofacial injuries associated with domestic violence" would include the following MeSH terms:. One of the benefits of using MeSH terms is that when you search using MeSH terms you get all the articles about a topic, regardless of what term the authors used.

For example, a search for myocardial infarction the MeSH term for heart attack will give you all articles about heart attacks regardless of whether the authors used the term myocardial infarction or heart attack. This is different from internet search engines like Google that only search for the same words. For a fee, these vendors will provide the content of the database through their own interface which may have different search features and capabilities than PubMed.

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