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Relevant Databases

Access Medicine
Full text medical text books and clinical library. Includes tutorials, animations, and audio/video presentations related to anatomy, pathophysiology, procedures, and other medical topics.
APA PsycInfo (EBSCOhost) (1887+)
The APA PsycInfo® database, 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.

"contains approximately 5 million citations and summaries dating as far back as the 1600s with DOIs for over 1.4 million records. Ninety-eight percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed. The database also includes information about the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, technology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and others. Journal coverage, which spans from the1800s to present, includes international material selected from around 2,400 periodicals in dozens of languages."
Psychological Abstracts:
* 1927-1947 Microfilm BF1.P65
* 1948-2004 print in remote storage
Bates Visual Guide to Physical Examination
Head-to-toe and systems-based physical examination techniques for the (Advanced) Assessment or Introduction to Clinical Medicine course for Students and faculty in medical, nursing, and related programs.
CINAHL Ultimate (EBSCOhost) (1937+)
CINAHL Ultimate provides 1,815 active full-text journals and covers over 50 nursing specialties. Additionally, it features full-text quick lessons, evidence-based care sheets, continuing education modules, nursing instructional videos, and more.
Clinical Key (Elsevier)
An online search tool that provides physicians with fast clinical answers.
Provided by the College of Medicine.
Cochrane Library (Wiley)
The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making.

UCF subscribes to Cochrane Library on the Wiley platform as of March 2021.
EndNote
EndNote is a reference management tool, for all UCF students, faculty and staff. If you have not yet installed EndNote, submit this Service Now form for assistance with downloading the most current version.. For more citation management options, see our blog post or our EndNote guide.
ERIC (EBSCOhost) (1966+)
ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and research.

ERIC is available from several database vendors, including ProQuest. UCF students are advised to use ERIC in EBSCOhost, which provides many links to full text and allows users to search multiple education databases simultaneously. Users who are not UCF students are advised to use ERIC from DOE because no login is required.
LWW Health Library: Medical Education (Wolters Kluwer)
LWW Health Library: Medical Education provides texts, video & audio, self assessment, cases, and clinical skills resources.

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) is an imprint of the publisher Wolters Kluwer.
Subject areas include:
Anatomy
Behavioral Science
Biochemistry
Embryology
Epidemiology
Genetics
Histology
Intro to Clinical Medicine
Microbiology/Immunology
Neuroscience
Pathology/Pathophysiology
Pharmacology
Physical Examination
Physiology
Review
MEDLINE (EBSCOhost) (1946+)
MEDLINE 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.

Subject content includes anatomy; communication disorders; microbiology; paramedical professions; pathology; physiology; psychiatry; toxicology; dentistry; parasitology; reproductive biology; epidemiology; gene therapy; surgical and pharmaceutical intervention; nursing practice; ethical and legal issues; institutional operations; laboratory techniques and procedures; diagnosis and management; clinical research trials and experimental treatment protocols; legislation and regulation; allied health specialties; continuing education; investigational drugs and new drug uses, and some veterinary medicine.
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

PubMed citations and abstracts include the fields of biomedicine and health, covering portions of the life sciences, behavioral sciences, chemical sciences, and bioengineering. PubMed also provides access to additional relevant web sites and links to the other NCBI molecular biology resources.
PubMed is a free resource that is developed and maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), located at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Publishers of journals can submit their citations to NCBI and then provide access to the full-text of articles at journal web sites using LinkOut."
SPORTDiscus (EBSCOhost) (1975+)
Provided by the Sport Information Resource Centre, SPORTDiscus offers comprehensive, bibliographic coverage of sport, fitness and related disciplines. This database contains well over 1.7 million records with journal and monograph coverage going back to 1800; over 22,000 dissertations and theses and reference to articles in 60 different languages.
Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics)
Provides citation indexing of top high-impact journals with powerful tools such as cited reference searching and Author Finder, 254 categories thoroughly cover the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.

Citation Indexes for finding articles that cite a given author or citation.
- Science Citation Index Expanded (1965+)
- Social Sciences Citation Index (1965+)
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975+)

Citation Connection is now available. This includes:
- Data Citation Index (1900+)
- Derwent Innovations Index – Patents Database (1963+)
- Book Citation Index: Scholarly Books (2005+)
- Conference Proceedings Citation Index (1990+)
- Index Chemicus (IC) (1989+)
- Current Chemical Reactions (1993+)
- Current Contents Connect (1998+)

Evidence-Based Summaries

Access Medicine
Full text medical text books and clinical library. Includes photographs and audio/video presentations related to the various texts in the collections.
Clinical Key (Elsevier)
An online search tool that provides physicians with fast clinical answers.
Provided by the College of Medicine.
Cochrane Library (Wiley)
The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making.

UCF subscribes to Cochrane Library on the Wiley platform as of March 2021.
DynaMedex (EBSCOhost)
combines the clinical expertise and extensive, curated disease content of DynaMed with the comprehensive view into treatment options, depth, and breadth of drug information, and advanced search capabilities of Micromedex. Provide users with evidence-based insights for optimal clinical decision-making and improved patient outcomes.
DynaMedex includes mobile and app access: sign up for a free account on the DynaMedex page. You must be on campus or signed in with your NID to create an account.
Mobile App Access: In late November 2025, the Institutional Network tab—which previously allowed access via IP address authentication—will be removed from the mobile app. Users will need to create a personal account affiliated with the institution.
PEDro -- Physiotherapy Evidence Database
"PEDro is the Physiotherapy Evidence Database, a free database of over 40,000 randomised trials, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy."

Other Databases and Resources

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"
Google Scholar
Free index for broadly searching scholarly literature. This link includes the UCF institution code so links to UCF's full text subscriptions will display.

Use Google Scholar as a first step of discovery, but then focus your research by using specific databases relevant to your subject discipline.
JBI Sumari (Ovid)
Instructions for use
Develop, conduct, and report on systematic reviews of multiple research papers. **You must create a FREE personal Ovid account to access this product.**
UCF has an organizational subscription which covers faculty, staff and students. If collaborating with members from other institutions, each collaborator must also have access to JBI Sumari through their own organization's subscription or an individual subscription.

Usage: evidence based medicine (EBM), clinical resources; systematic reviews.
Provided by the College of Medicine.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global (1637+)
"Each dissertation published since July, 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Simple bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637. Where available, PQDTGlobal provides 24-page previews of dissertations and theses."
For abstracts from 1938-1980 see the print volumes of Dissertation Abstracts International

"ProQuest Dissertations and Theses: Global (PQDTGlobal) is the world's most comprehensive collection of full-text dissertations and theses. As the official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and as the database of record for graduate research, PQDTGlobal includes millions of searchable citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. Over 2.1 million titles are available for purchase as printed copies. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works. It also includes PQDT UK & Ireland content."
Sage Research Methods
The site is designed to guide students to the content they need to learn a little or a lot about research designs and statistical methods.
Science Direct (1997+)
Full text scientific, technical and medical research journals, eBooks, Reference works, handbooks and book series published by Elsevier.
Springer eBooks (2005+)
over 20,000 ebooks from science, technology, and medicine
Springer Nature Link
Providing researchers with access to millions of scientific documents from journals, books, series, protocols and reference works.

Disciplines include:
- Architecture & Design
- Astronomy
- Biomedical Sciences
- Business & Management
- Chemistry
- Computer Science
- Earth Sciences & Geography
- Economics
- Education & Language
- Energy
- Engineering
- Environmental Sciences
- Food Science & Nutrition
- Law
- Life Sciences
- Materials
- Mathematics
- Medicine
- Philosophy
- Physics
- Psychology
- Public Health
- Social Sciences
- Statistics