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PubMed: PubMed Alternative Engines

Welcome to PubMed Tutorial that is intended to provide general and basic information on how to search this resource

askMEDLINE

askMedline is an alternative search engine to PubMed that is a free-text, natural language (English only) query for MEDLINE/PubMed

ask MEDLINE (46,47) is designed for handling user queries in the form of questions or complex phrases in the medical setting. It was originally developed as a tool for parsing clinical questions to automatically complete the patient, intervention, comparison, outcome (PICO) form, but was later launched as a tool for the non-expert medical information seeker owing to its ability to retrieve relevant citations from parsed medical terms.

OpenMD

OpenMD is a medical reference service that makes high-quality medical information easily accessible to everyone. OpenMD.com searches billions of documents from government agencies, global health organizations, medical journals, and reference sites.

HubMed

HubMed is an alternative interface of PubMed, mainly used as a way to keep up-to-date with the medical literature.

Aim of PubMed Alternative Engines

This page provides an overview of the various alternative PubMed search engines that search the same content as PubMed but the results are different...