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Best Databases for Nursing
- CINAHL Plus with Full Text (EBSCOhost) (1937+)Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature. Indexes nursing, allied health, biomedical, and consumer health journals.
- MEDLINE (EBSCOhost) (1946+)The largest medical database in the world. This database includes scholarly articles from all categories of medicine and includes nursing journals.
- PubMed (MEDLINE) (1948+)PubMed® comprises more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
To authenticate for full-text off-campus, log in - APA PsycInfo (EBSCOhost) (1887+)American Psychological Association's (APA) renowned resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health.
- Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (Wiley)"contains full text articles, as well as protocols focusing on the effects of healthcare"
- Health & Psychosocial Instruments (EBSCOhost) (1985+)Information about behavioral measurement instruments (such as questionnaires, interview schedules, coding schemes/manuals, rating scales, and tests) gathered from hundreds of journals covering health sciences and psychosocial sciences.
- Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics)
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Provides citation indexing of top high-impact journals with powerful tools such as cited reference searching and Author Finder, 256 categories thoroughly cover the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.
Best Databases for Medicine
- Access MedicineFull text medical text books and clinical library. Includes photographs and audio/video presentations related to the various texts in the collections.
- MEDLINE (EBSCOhost) (1946+)"provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 5,400 current biomedical journals."
- Thieme Connect: Online Journals (2000+)full text medical journals
- Thieme MedOne EducationOnline access to the Flexibook Atlases and Textbooks, the popular series of color atlases and pocket textbooks in anatomy, basic science, clinical science, and radiology.
Drugs & Pharmaceuticals
- Alt-HealthWatch (EBSCOhost) (1990+)Focusing on complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care
- ClinicalTrials.govprovides patients, family members, health care professionals, and members of the public easy access to information on clinical trials for a wide range of diseases and conditions
- Facts and Comparisons (WoltersKluwer)Drug information and references. Also includes clinical calculators, warnings, codes & indexes, and medication guides.
- Health and Medicine (Gale OneFile) (1980+)Multi-source database provides access to the full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus the wide variety of personal health information sources in InfoTrac's award-winning Health Reference Center.
- Medical Letter (The Medical Letter) (1988+)Critical appraisals of new drugs and comparative reviews of older drugs.
- Treatment Guidelines from The Medical Letter (2002-2014)Provides unbiased prescribing recommendations featuring drug treatment of major indications, recommendations for first-choice and alternative drugs, and comparative assessment of drug effectiveness, safety and cost. Treatment Guidelines ceased in 2014. Access is provided for 2002-2014.
- Natural Medicines Comprehensive DatabaseInformation about herbs, supplements and other "natural" medicines.
Other Databases for Medicine
- Abstracts in New Technology & Engineering -- ANTE (ProQuest) (1993+)
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publications from the U.K. & the U.S. covering new technologies such as information technology & computing, electronics, biotechnology, medical technology, as well as engineering (including construction, electrical & chemical engineering) & allied subject areas. - Abstracts in Social Gerontology (EBSCOhost)Indexes social gerontology journals, including the psychology of aging, elder abuse, society and the elderly.
- AgeLine* (AARP)No longer freely available. Detailed summaries of more than 90,000 publications about aging and the 50+ population. See also the AgeLine Thesaurus.
See also Abstracts in Social Gerontology - Annual Reviews (1932+)Annual Reviews publishes authoritative, analytic reviews in more than 45 focused disciplines in the sciences and social sciences.
- BIOSIS Citation IndexCovers all major areas in the life sciences, with broad coverage in molecular and cell biology, pharmacology, endocrinology, genetics, neurosciences, infectious diseases, ecology and organismal biology
- Biological Science Collection (ProQuest) (1946+)
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"This database includes the renowned Biological Sciences, MEDLINE, and TOXLINE databases and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications. The database includes specialized, editorially-curated A&I resources providing access to the extensive variety of biology’s cutting edge research, with applications to medicine, technology and the environment." - BioMed Central (OpenAccess Central)"an STM (Science, Technology and Medicine) publisher of 269 peer-reviewed open access journals. The portfolio of journals spans all areas of biology, biomedicine and medicine"
- BioOne (2000+)Full-texts of high-impact bioscience research journals, an innovative collaboration between scientific societies, libraries, academe and the private sector.
- Biotechnology & Bioengineering Abstracts (ProQuest) (1982+)
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Provides coverage of research across all areas of biotechnology and bioengineering, including medical, pharmaceutical, agricultural, environmental and marine biology. - Biotechnology Research Abstracts (ProQuest)
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Provides bibliographic coverage of ground-breaking research, applications, regulatory developments and new patents across all areas of biotechnology and bioengineering, including medical, pharmaceutical, agricultural, environmental and marine biology.
For user help, see the ProQuest Science & Technology Training Materials guide and the ProQuest Biological Science Collection guide. - CINAHL Plus with Full Text (EBSCOhost) (1937+)Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature. Indexes nursing, allied health, biomedical, and consumer health journals.
- Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (Wiley)"a bibliography of controlled trials...as part of an international effort to hand search the world's journals and create an unbiased source of data for systematic reviews"
- Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (Wiley)"contains full text articles, as well as protocols focusing on the effects of healthcare"
- Colloquium Digital Library of Life Sciences (Portico)The Morgan & Claypool Colloquium eBooks are now freely available via Portico. Each eBook is also in the Library's Primo Discovery service.
- Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE)*DARE ceased at the end of March 2015. The database can still be accessed via the University of York Centre for Reviews and Dissemination
- DynaMed Plus (EBSCOhost)A point-of-care reference resource providing clinicians with evidence to support clinical decision-making. DynaMed Plus includes mobile and app access: sign up for a free account on the DynaMed Plus index page. You must be on campus or signed in with your NID to create an account.
- Endocrinology Abstracts (ProQuest) (1985-1986)This interdisciplinary database offers abstracts and citations to a wide range of research in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology and ecology, and some aspects of agriculture and veterinary science.
- Evidence Based Medicine Reviews* (OVID) (1991+)database of medical journals from Wolters Kluwer via Ovid interface.
See Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - Genetics Abstracts (ProQuest) (1982+)
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An essential resource for scientists across the life sciences, Genetics Abstracts will prove particularly useful to researchers and institutions directly and indirectly involved in the Human Genome Project. - Health & Psychosocial Instruments (EBSCOhost) (1985+)Information about behavioral measurement instruments (such as questionnaires, interview schedules, coding schemes/manuals, rating scales, and tests) gathered from hundreds of journals covering health sciences and psychosocial sciences.
- Health and Wellness (Gale) (1980+)Topics in health and medicine, medications, and wellness. Includes encyclopedias, directories, medical dictionary, magazines, journals, and newspapers.
- Health Sciences (SAGE Journals)Browse journals by discipline: Allied Health; Cardiology & Cardiovascular Medicine; Dentistry; Emergency Medicine & Critical Care; Endocrinology & Metabolism; General Medicine; Geriatrics; Medico-legal; Neurology; Nursing; Nutrition; Oncology; Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine; Otolaryngology; Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care; Pediatrics; Pharmacology & Toxicology; Psychiatry & Psychology; Public Health; Pulmonary & Respiratory Medicine; Radiology; Research Methods & Evaluation; Surgery; Veterinary Medicine
- Health Source: Nursing/Academic & Consumer Editions (EBSCOhost) (1984+)Provides full text for nearly 540 scholarly health journals, and over 190 consumer journals, as well as indexing and abstracting of over 700 health-related journals and magazines.
- Health Technology Assessments (HTA)This database is available from the CRD database website."
Provides details of completed and ongoing health technology assessments (studies of the medical, social, ethical and economic implications of healthcare interventions) from around the world. "The HTA database is produced by the NIHR Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) at the University of York, UK. - HealthFindera free guide to reliable consumer health and human services information, developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Human Genome Abstracts (ProQuest) (1982-1995)This interdisciplinary database offers abstracts and citations to a wide range of research in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology and ecology, and some aspects of agriculture and veterinary science.
- PubMed (MEDLINE) (1948+)PubMed® comprises more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
To authenticate for full-text off-campus, log in - MedlinePlusThe consumer health database from the National Library of Medicine, MedlinePlus has extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over 800 diseases and conditions.
- Medscape"Medscape from WebMD offers specialists, primary care physicians, and other health professionals the Web's most robust and integrated medical information and educational tools. After a simple, 1-time, free registration, Medscape from WebMD automatically delivers to you a personalized specialty site that best fits your registration profile."
- Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print (EBSCOhost) (1985+)Information about and reviews of English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas.
- National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)the U.S. Federal Government's principal vital and health statistics agency
- National Guideline Clearinghouse"Clinical practice guidelines are statements that include recommendations intended to optimize patient care that are informed by a systematic review of evidence and an assessment of the benefits and harms of alternative care options."
- Nature Journals (Springer-Nature)NPG publishes journals and online databases across the life, physical and applied sciences and, most recently, clinical medicine.
- OpenDOAR - The Directory of Open Access Repositoriesa growing list of international institutional & subject-based repositories, as well as archives set up by funding agencies - like the National Institutes for Health in the USA or the Wellcome Trust in the UK and Europe.
- Oxford Scholarship OnlineAccess to the full text of over 4,000 Oxford monographs in Biology, Business & Management, Classical Studies, Economics & Finance, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Mathematics, Music, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Public Health & Epidemiology, Religion, and Social Work
- APA PsycInfo (EBSCOhost) (1887+)American Psychological Association's (APA) renowned resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health.
- Science Citation Index Expanded (1965+)
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a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the sciences. - Science Direct (1997+)
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Full text scientific, technical and medical research journals, eBooks, Reference works, handbooks and book series published by Elsevier. - SPORTDiscus (EBSCOhost) (1975+)comprehensive, bibliographic coverage of sport, fitness and related disciplines.
- TOXLINE (ProQuest) (1999+)"This database, produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, provides bibliographic citations and abstracts from the core journal literature in all areas of toxicology, including chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pesticides, environmental pollutants and mutagens and teratogens."
- Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics)
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Provides citation indexing of top high-impact journals with powerful tools such as cited reference searching and Author Finder, 256 categories thoroughly cover the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. - Wiley Online Library-Now linking to Wiley Online Homepage. For Publications, click link for Journals, Reference Works, or Online Books below search box
-Full text of Wiley's scholarly journals and many eBooks covering a variety of disciplines.
-See also Wiley-IEEE eBooks
What about Google Scholar?
Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com) is a database of scholarly articles and is an excellent resource.
(If you're looking for nursing articles, the best place to start is Cinahl since it contains all nursing journals.)
If you use Google Scholar, be sure and set the Scholar Preferences so that articles link to the full text the UCF Library buys for you.
Click on Scholar Preferences, then in the Library Links box, type in University of Central Florida Libraries, and select.
Save your preferences.
The Get Full Text @ UCF link will now be added to the results in Google Scholar.