Medicine: Clinical Sciences
The Cochrane Library
Independent high-quality evidence for health care decision making
Coverage varies by database; 1800 - present
A collection of databases that contain high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. Cochrane reviews represent the highest level of evidence on which to base clinical treatment decisions. [
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EMBASE: Excerpta Medica & EMBASE Classic
1947 - present
A "major biomedical and pharmaceutical database indexing over 3,500 international journals in the following fields: drug research, pharmacology, pharmaceutics, toxicology, clinical and experimental human medicine, health policy and management, public health, occupational health, environmental health, drug dependence and abuse, psychiatry, forensic medicine, and biomedical engineering/instrumentation." [
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Healthstar
Ovid Healthstar
1966 - present
Selected citations from the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) MEDLINE and former HealthSTAR databases covering published literature on clinical and non-clinical aspects of health care delivery including health services, technology, administration, and research. [
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MEDLINE®
Ovid MEDLINE
1950 - present
Major bibliographic database for clinical medicine, including: internal medicine, general medicine, primary care, family medicine, and general practice, as well as: veterinary medicine, nursing, allied health, dentistry, and pre-clinical sciences. [
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PsycINFO
1806 - present
Comprehensive international database for Psychology [
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PubMed
Includes open access version of MEDLINE®
1966 - present
Index and abstract database covering the fields of "medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and preclinical sciences. It includes access to MEDLINE® and to citations for selected articles in life science journals not included in MEDLINE. ..[It] also provides access to additional relevant Web sites and links to the other NCBI molecular biology resources." [
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HSDB
Hazardous Substances Data Bank
Current
Contains comprehensive information on over 5,000 hazardous chemicals including coverage of significant human exposure, environmental fate, toxicity (including ecotoxicity), standards and regulations from the US National Library of Medicine. A database within the
CHEM-BANK [
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Access Note: Search defaults to ALL CHEM-BANK databases. Narrow your search to one or more databases by clicking on Clear All then making your selection. [
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RTECS
Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances
Current
Contains identification and toxicity data on over 168,000 chemicals. A database within the
CHEM-BANK [
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Access Note: Search defaults to ALL CHEM-BANK databases. Narrow your search to one or more databases by clicking on Clear All then making your selection. [
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TOXNET
Toxicology Data Network
Coverage varies
Portal to databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases. [
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Web of Science® with Conference Proceedings
WOS
SCI: 1899 - present; SSCI: 1956-present; A&HCI: 1975-present ; CPSI-S: 1990-present; CPSI-SSH: 1990-present
Collection of three citation databases, providing abstracts and indexing and cited reference searching to approximately 10,000 high impact scholarly research journals worldwide, including Open Access journals and over 110,000 conference proceedings, and covering topics in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.
Access Note: By default all five sub-databases are searched. To select one or more databases, change the default by clicking on [Change Limits and Settings] . [
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Natural Standard
The Authority on Integrative Medicine
Current
A collection of nine databases, providing high quality, evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies; compiled by an international research collaborative, with contributions from clinicians and researchers from eminent academic institutions. [
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Scopus
A&I: 1823 - present; complete metadata including references: 1996 - present
A very large abstract and index database of research literature and quality web sources covering the science, technology, and medicine (STM), and social sciences. [
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Health & Safety Science Abstracts
1981 - present
A comprehensive bibliographic database with abstracts, it indexes government reports, journal articles, conference proceedings, books, and other publications relating to public health, safety, and industrial hygiene, and covering the most important new developments in safety science and human factors research. [
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Journal Citation Reports®
JCR Science Edition; JCR Social Sciences Edition
From 2004 to the last complete year. Updated in June of each year
"Allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from over 7,500 scholarly and technical journals from more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries." There are two editions:
JCR Science Edition and
JCR Social Sciences Edition [
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Annual Reviews & Backfile
1930 - present; Vol. 1 - present
A collection of review series in 45 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences. [
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GenBank
coverage varies
Genetic sequence database
Health & Wellness Resource Center
Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module
1980 - present
A reference database containing consumer related health information in full text, including "integrated access to medical, health, and wellness information". Includes nearly 400 health/medical journals, numerous reference volumes, over 700 health videos from partner Healthology, Inc., hundreds of pamphlets and health-related articles from 2,200 general interest publications in addition to a broad collection of Gale reference titles. [
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Health Reference Center Academic
1980 - present
Multi-source database provides access to the full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus the wide variety of personal health information sources, including:consumer health magazines, newsletters, pamphlets, newspaper articles, topical overviews, and reference books. [
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