Resources in Biomedical Sciences

Article Databases for the Biomedical Sciences

Use one or more of these databases to search for articles on a specific topic using keywords, subject headings, authors and more.

MEDLINE

MEDLINE®, the  U.S. National Library of Medicine's® (NLM) premier bibliographic database, contains article citations and abstracts for biomedical journal literature from around the world. 

• PubMed with access to UI full text
  PubMed is also freely available at www.pub.gov, however users will not have access to UI library's full text.

       Alternative MEDLINE search tools

• Ovid Medline  (Ovid Databases)
• Web of Knowledge  (Thomson Reuters Databases)

OTHER BIOMEDICAL DATABASES

• Biosis  (Biological Abstracts)
• Entrez   (NCBI databases)
• Faculty of 1000  (Current awareness)
• SciFinder Scholar  (Chemical Abstracts)
• Scopus  (Sciences, Engineering, Technology)
• Web of Science  (Science Citation Index)

DATABASES for SPECIFIC TOPICS/DISCIPLINES

Clinical Care

• AccessMedicine  (Drugs, Diagnosis, Guidelines, Patient Education)
• Cochrane Library  (Systematic Reviews)
• DynaMed [EBSCO]  (Mobile Version, Evidence Summaries, Diseases & Conditions, Calculators)
• MDConsult  (Journals, Drugs, Patient Education)
• UpToDate  (Diseases & Conditions, Drug Interactions, Patient Information, Calculators)

Nursing

• CINAHL
• Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition

Public Health

• CABI Global Health
• Health & Safety Abstracts    (Public Health)

Other

• Dentistry & Oral Sciences Source    (Dentistry)
• International Pharmaceutical Abstracts    (Pharmaceuticals)
• Springer Protocols  (Laboratory Protocols)
• PsycARTICLES    (Psychiatry)
• Health and Psychosocial Instruments    (Research Instruments)
• MedlinePlus    (Consumer Health)

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