PubMed is an interface for searching biomedical and life sciences journal articles developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the US National Library of Medicine. It provides bibliographic details and abstracts of published articles free of cost. Medical subject headings (MeSH) are used to index articles in a hierarchical vocabulary to provide consistency. Searches can be performed on the PubMed website using keywords or advanced search options to retrieve relevant records, though it does not provide full text articles. Additional tools help refine searches. While making content freely available, PubMed preserves copyright and represents documents in XML for long-term preservation of scientific literature. However, it does not support citation searching.