PubMed is a critical resource for biomedical research, housing over 37 million citations from MEDLINE and other sources, and serving as a cornerstone for researchers, physicians, and the public.

PubMed, MEDLINE and PubMed Central are all funded by the National Library of Medicine but are different databases. PubMed has been reported to include some articles published in predatory journals.

The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced on 1 February that it will discontinue PubMed Commons, a tool that allows scientists to comment on articles indexed in the agency’s popular PubMed ...

A temporary outage of the US-government-funded PubMed database of biomedical literature over the weekend sent many researchers globally into a panic. Although the disruption does not seem to have been ...

The German National Library of Medicine (ZB Med) has announced its intention to create an "open, reliable and sustainable alternative" to the PubMed database. This is one of the most important and ...