PubMed 10 years strong

PubMed, a favourite research tool of biomedical researchers around the world, celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. First released as an experimental database in January 1996, it was officially launched as a free Web-based version of MEDLINE (which itself turned 35(!!) years old this year) on June 26, 1997. Its first month of official service saw some 2 million searches for the entire month. Current statistics indicate usage typically exceeds three million searches a day.

For more details about PubMed’s history and key milestones, see this National Library of Medicine press release.

I’m trying to imagine life without PubMed – can you?

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