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OLDMEDLINE contains citations to articles from international biomedical journals covering the fields of medicine, preclinical sciences and allied health sciences. Subject searching of this file is available through key words (the original Medical Subject Headings, assigned prior to 1965) and text phrases. Unlike MEDLINE, this file contains no abstracts nor MeSH heading field data from NLM's current controlled vocabulary.

  • Data Format: Text (periodical article citations)
  • Frequency of updates: Updated as NLM releases data; releases are irregular

Subject headings

  • Medicine--Periodicals--Indexes.
  • Medical sciences--Periodicals--Indexes.
  • Nursing--Periodicals--Indexes.
  • Medicine--Indexes.
  • Medical sciences--Indexes.
  • Nursing--Indexes.
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