Table 1

Examples of retrieval services for MEDLINE

service
availability
relevance score
description

PubMed
public/free
no
NLM's search engine for MEDLINE
SLIM
public/free
no
alternative search interface using slider controllers to implement search limits, methodology filters, and MeSH terminologies
askMEDLINE
public/free
no
free-text, natural language query tool for PubMed
eTBLAST
public/free
yes
inputs an entire paragraph and returns articles that are similar to it
Ovid's MEDLINE
subscription required
no
a search engine to MEDLINE
HubMed
public/free
yes
shows first the articles that contain the search terms most frequently in the title and/or abstract
PubMedAssistant
public/free
no
biologist-friendly interface for enhanced PubMed search
CISMeF
public/free
no
gives ranked list of relevant specialties that relate to topics discussed in each article
GoPubMed
public/free
no
classifies the retrieved articles using Gene Ontology terms
AnneOTate
public/free
no
A tool for summarizing the results of a PubMed query
ArrowSmith
public/free
no
A tool for identifying links between two sets of Medline articles
PubMed Gold
public/free
no
finds PDFs for PubMed citations

Siadaty et al. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2007 7:1   doi:10.1186/1472-6947-7-1