What is the difference between PubMed and Medline?
PubMed is an interface used to search Medline and additional biomedical and health content. Medline is an index of over 31 million citations dating back to 1946. PubMed, started in 1996, contains 37 million+ citations. PubMed is considered by many to be more user-friendly, and contains many links to full text content via publisher websites, and PubMed Central (open access full text and "in process," and "ahead of print" articles). When you use the PubMed@Belmont link on the library website, you will get easy access to our subscription content. You will get slightly different results by searching in each database.
Though searching in Medline (and Medline Ultimate through Belmont) is a little more labor-intensive than PubMed, we do recommend searching in both databases when possible. All Medline articles have been indexed with assigned MeSH terms. If you have a specific search you are doing you will get the closest, most specific match to your terms by searching in Medline. This is why it is good to perform your search in more than one database.
Here is the link to the National Library of Medicine’s page with a much more complete explanation of how Medline, Pubmed and PubMedCentral are different: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/dif_med_pub.html