Joe Felsenstein (joe at evolution.genetics.washington.edu) wrote:
: In article <E7Hw5A.C3r.B.midge at bath.ac.uk>,
: W R Bennett <bspwrb at bath.ac.uk> wrote:
: >Our university, as with many others, has a license to access MEDLINE and
: >SCI, but these databases only go as far back as 1981. Anyone know if
: >there's a (free) gateway which would allow me to on-line search for
: >abstracts as far back as 1970 in the life sciences?
There are lots of free Medline systems, some better than others of course.
The best right now in my opinion is part of NCBI Entrez system at
http://www4.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/
It goes back to 1966.
Medline has traditionally gone back to 1966. NLM has recently announced a
backfile called OLDMEDLINE, which covers 1964-1965. Your Medical Library
should be able to search it, but I haven't seen it available free.
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