PubMed.gov is compiled by the National Library of Medicine (NLM). It offers descriptions of more than 38 million biomedical and life sciences journal articles, many of which are available in Full Text. The site is free to the public and requires no special privileges to access.
PubMed @ UMSL contains all the citations held at PubMed.gov, with the added benefit of connecting you to resources purchased by UMSL through subscriptions. These resources are not freely available on the Internet.
No, although there is a lot of overlap. PubMed is the larger of the two databases. It includes the entire MEDLINE database plus "ahead of print" citations, in-process citations, and citations for most NCBI Bookshelf books, among others. MEDLINE contains more than 31 million references, about 7 million fewer than PubMed.
In addition to the instructions found in UMSL's two PubMed guides, many videos and tutorials can be found in the Using PubMed in Evidence-Based Practice Training Course from the National Library of Medicine. On the PubMed site, you'll also see a User Guide link in the top right corner of each page, right below the blue Search button.
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