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**PubMed Overview**:
– Free database maintained by the NLM
– Contains primarily the MEDLINE database
– Offers over 35 million citations and abstracts
– Allows access to full-text versions of articles
– New records added at an average of nearly one million per year

**PubMed Features and Search Capabilities**:
– Simple searches by entering key aspects of a subject
– Translation of search formulation with relevant terms
– Comprehensive search strategies require understanding of MEDLINE
– Use of MeSH controlled vocabulary for accurate searches
– Reference librarians offer search services

**PubMed Article Parameters and Related Features**:
– Extracts and stores structured information about articles
– Parameters include article type, language, and publication history
– Related features include marking relevant references and identifying related articles
– Generates related articles based on selected studies
– Word-weighted algorithm used for identifying related articles

**PubMed Tools and Enhancements**:
– My NCBI for saving searches and filtering results
– Data mining methods using programming environments like Matlab, Python, or R
– Alternative interfaces for accessing MEDLINE via PubMed
– PubMed Identifier for locating any reference in PubMed
– Improvements in PubMed production and search capabilities

**PubMed Policies and Discontinuations**:
– Policies such as mandatory clinical trial registration evaluated for adherence
– PubMed Commons, a commenting feature, was discontinued in 2018
– askMEDLINE, a tool introduced in 2005, aimed to enhance user experience
– Leasing journal citations from PubMed/MEDLINE was a service provided by NLM
– PubMed has been subject to research on effective literature searching techniques