Table of Contents: 2016 MAY–JUNE No. 410 Previous Next PubMed Celebrates its 20th Anniversary! Canese K. PubMed Celebrates its 20th Anniversary! NLM Tech Bull. 2016 May-Jun;(410):e12. PubMed was first released two decades ago in January 1996 as an experimental database under the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) retrieval system. The word "experimental" was dropped from the Web