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Indexes and Databases
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Article Indexes
Medline (FirstSearch) The major index to medical research, from clinical medicine to cellular and biomolecular biology. Produced by the US National Library of Medicine. Coverage: 1965 - present. Updated daily.
MD Consult For general access, click the "Open Generic Account." Allied health, nursing and physical assistant students should use the Personal Account. Select "Get Personal Account" from the initial page. MD Consult includes 49 medical reference texts, full-text articles from 70 journals, MEDLINE and other sources, clinical practice guidelines, patient education handouts, drug information and current medical information.
STAT!Ref Online Library This is a collection of online health sciences texts including clinical texts, drug information, general practice and specialized medicine titles. Search results are displayed as citations, which lead to the full-text, complete with tables, graphics and links. STAT!Ref also includes databases such as MedCalc3000, Point-of-care tools and learning resources. Please LOGOFF, so others may use the database.
Medline Plus Health information from the National Library of Medicine presented accessibly for professionals and non-professionals.
Health and Wellness Resource Center An index to articles as well as information from a variety of reference sources. Includes links to medical encyclopedias, a dictionary, drug and herb finder, health organization directory, and some newspapers. Coverage 1980-present. Updated daily.
American Medical AssociationAccess to JAMA, and other specialty journals in medicine, as well as links to science journals. If the link under patient information is followed to the AMA Library, then to the Medical Resource Center, links will be found to free electronic journals and electronic books.
PubMed PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's interface for searching MEDLINE, the major index to medical research, from clinical medicine to cellular and biomolecular biology. Provides free citations and abstracts, but limited full text. Coverage: 1966 - present. Updated weekly.
Tips for using PubMed effectively are found in the NLM PubMed tutorial and UFL PubMed tutorial.
CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health) Indexes journals in nursing and related fields with full text for 560 of them. Some go back as far as 1937. Updated weekly.
List of Journals Indexed for Medline
The list is a PDF file that includes an alphabetic list of journals by abbreviated title. Click through the Terms and Conditions page to get to it.
InfoTrac Health Reference Center - Academic Indexes articles with abstracts and selected full text from medical journals and other publications about medicine, nutrition, and related subjects. Coverage: 1980-present.
OVID Nursing Collection Indexes hundreds of nursing journals and provides full text access to over forty of these journals. Searches can be limited just to full text or review articles. Updated daily.
Cochrane Library Evidence-based medicine databases including systematic reviews and a controlled trials register on the effects of health care.
MedscapeOne time registration required. Free access to Medline, and access to full-text medical articles.
PsycINFO Psychological Abstracts BF 1 .P65 (General Stacks)
Covers world-wide literature in psychology and related disciplines. Journal articles, technical reports, books, book chapters, and dissertations are included. Coverage: 1887-present. Updated weekly.
Use the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms for subject words: BF1 .P65x 2001 (Education Lib. and Waldo Ref.)
LexisNexis Academic Indexes thousands of domestic and foreign newspapers, as well as journals, and other publications in News, Business company reports and articles, Legal Research, Medical and Reference. The legal research category includes law reviews, law news, federal and state laws and cases. Mostly full text. Coverage dates vary.
PsycARTICLES Full-text access to over 75 major peer-reviewed psychology journals. Coverage varies. Updated weekly.
Science Citation Index
(Web of Science) Science Citation Index indexes articles published in the major scholarly journals for science, medicine and engineering. Search by topic, author, journal, affiliation, or use the Cited Ref. search to find articles that have cited a specific author or publication. The reference list for each article can also be viewed. Coverage: 1900 - present. More info
Social Work Abstracts Index of over 45,000 citations to journal articles in social work and related fields produced by the National Association of Social Workers. Also includes the latest edition of the NASW Clinical Register. Coverage is from 1977 to the present.
Print: HV 1 .N3x (Ref) 1977-1993
Science Direct Database for scientific research that contains the citations and abstracts of more than 1,800 Elsevier journals in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences as well as selected full text articles. Science Direct can be searched as a database or browsed by individual title. Coverage varies.
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