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AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors
   AMA
Medicine, nursing, and the health sciences
  • Text
  • Images
Information on manuscript preparation, including visual representations of electronic reference citations
  • Varies
  • Daily

Books@Ovid
   Ovid

Medicine, pharmacology and health sciences
  • Text
  • Images
30+ electronic books on various health related topics
  • Latest editions

  • Varies by title
CareNotes System
    Micromedex
Medicine and health sciences
  • Text
  • Images
  • Links

Customizable patient education documents in English and Spanish

  • Latest edition

  • New documents added quarterly
CINAHL Plus With Full Text
   EBSCO
Nursing and allied health
  • Citations
  • Abstracts
  • Text
1100+ journals and publications
  • 1982+

  • Monthly
Clin-Alert
   Sage Publications
Medicine and health sciences
  • Text
Summaries of adverse drug reactions, drug interactions, and market withdrawals from over 100 key medical and research journals from around the world. Searchable.
  • August 2001-

  • 24 issues per year
Clinical Pharmacology
   Gold Standard Multimedia
Medicine and health sciences
  • Text
Up-to-date, peer-reviewed information on all U.S. prescription, over-the- counter, new and investigational drugs, as well as off-label uses and dosage, herbal supplements, and nutritional information
  • Latest edition

  • Daily
Evidence Based Medical Reviews
   Ovid
Medicine and health sciences
  • Citations
  • Abstracts
  • Text

Multifile database allowing simultaneous searching of the 4 EBMR databases:

ACP Journal Club; Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials; Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews; and Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects.

  • 1991 -

  • Varies
Facts & Comparisons 4.0
    Facts and Comparisons
Medicine and health sciences
  • Text
A variety of tools and resources describing drugs, natural products, therapies and patient information
  • Latest editions

  • Daily
FIRST Consult
   Elsevier
Medicine and health sciences
  • Text
  • Images
Findings from journals and health references organized into a highly accessible format for point-of-care use via the desktop or handhelds, with tools for differential diagnosis, evaluation and management of medical conditions, patient education and procedure skills review.
  • Varies

  • Daily
Health and Psychosocial
Instruments

   Ovid
Health and psychosocial studies
  • Citations
  • Abstracts
Wide variety of evaluation and measurement tools
  • 1985+

  • Quarterly
Health Source:
Consumer Edition

   EBSCO
General health, nutrition, and professional health care
  • Citations
  • Abstracts
  • 190+ journals
  • 1000+ pamphlets
  • 20+ reference books
  • Medical dictionary
  • 1990+

  • Journals daily
  • Books annually
Health Source:
Nursing/Academic Edition

   EBSCO
Nursing and allied health
  • Citations
  • Abstracts
  • Text
600+ journals in full text
  • 1984+

  • Daily
Healthcare Series
   Micromedex
Medicine and health sciences
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  • Images
  • Links

Comparative drug summaries, drug interaction capabilities; multi-level therapeutic class tree; drug identification images; critical emergency, acute care, and disease data; customizable patient education materials; alternative medicine information

  • Latest edition

  • Daily
International Journal of  Pharmaceutical Compounding
   IJPC
Medicine and health sciences
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  • Images
Contains standards for medicines, dosage forms, drug substances, excipients, medical devices, and dietary supplements.
  • Latest edition

  • Annual update plus two supplements per year
International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (IPAB)
   Ovid
Pharmacology and health sciences
  • Citations
  • Abstracts
Worldwide coverage of pharmaceutical science and health-related literature
  • 1970-

  • Monthly
Lexi-Comp ONLINE
   Lexi-Comp
Medicine, pharmacy, nursing and dentistry
  • Records
A system of 13 integrated drug information databases providing point-of-care drug and clinical information through the following modules: interactions, drug identifcation, patient care, calculations, IV compatibility and web search.
  • Varies

  • Daily
MD Consult
   Elsevier
Medicine and health sciences
  • Text
  • Images
A family of online medical information sites serving medical professionals' content needs, integrating books, practice guidelines, patient education materials, drug information and peer-reviewed journals from 50+ publishers, medical societies, and government agencies.
  • Varies

  • Daily
Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics
  The Medical Letter, Inc.
Medicine and health sciences
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Unbiased, critical evaluations of drugs. Appraises drugs in terms of their effectiveness, toxicity, cost, and possible alternatives. Includes access to the Antimicrobial Therapy HandbookAdverse Drug Interactions Program, and patient brochures. Searchable.
  • January 1, 1988 -

  • Biweekly
MEDLINE
   OCLC
All areas of medicine
  • Citations
  • Abstracts
9500+ sources from 70+ countries
  • 1965+

  • Daily
MEDLINE – Ovid MEDLINE
  Ovid
Medicine, nursing, dentistry, allied health, biology, chemistry and biophysics
  • Citations
  • Abstracts
Electronic counterpart of Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and the International Nursing Index
  • 1950 -

  • Daily
Merck Index
   Merck and Co.
  Registration Required
Biology, chemisty, medicine, nursing, and pharmacy
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Index to 10,000 monographs desribing significant chemicals, drugs, and biological substances, searchable by text, properties, and structures. Organic Name Reactions and Supplementary Tables included.
Micromedex Health Care Series
   Micromedex
Medicine and health sciences
  • Test
  • Images
  • Links
  • CareNotes System: customizable patient education documents in English and Spanish.
  • Healthcare Series Online: Comparative drug summaries, drug interactions; therapeutic class trees; drug identification images; emergency, acute care, and disease data; patient education materials; alternative medicine information.
  • Latest edition
  • Quarterly/Daily
Pharmacist’s Letter
  Therapeutic Research
  Registration Required

Medicine and health sciences

  • Text

Online journal including “Detail-Documents” on every topic covered, charts and patient handouts and updates on newly-approved drugs

  • 1996

  • Monthly
PLoS
   Public Library of Science
Biology, medicine and health sciences
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  • Images

Contains full-text of the following open-access, peer-reviewed journals: PLoS Biology, PLoS Medicine, PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS Geneticsand PLoS Pathogens

  • Varies by title

  • Monthly
PubMed
   National Library of Medicine
Medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, healthcare systems, and preclinical sciences
  • Citations
  • Abstracts
  • Text
4,500 biomedical journals, magazines, newspapers, and newsletters
  • 1966+

  • Tuesday and Saturday
ScienceDirect
   Elsevier
All subjects
  • Citations
  • Abstracts
  • Text
1700+ journals with 870+ in full text
  • 1995+

  • Daily
Scopus
   Elsevier
Scientific, technical and medical information, engineering, social sciences, arts and humanities
  • Citations
  • Abstracts
Portal to 18,000+ titles from 5,000+ international publishers, including 16,500+ peer-reviewed journals, 600+ trade publications, 350+ book series, 3.6 million conference papers, 435 million scientific web pages,  and 23 million patents.
  • Cited refrences from 1996+
  • Daily
SpringerLink
    Springer-Kluwer
Sciences, medicine, social sciences and education
  • Citations
  • Abstracts
  • Text
  • Links
380+ journals in full text
  • Varies by title
STAT!Ref
    Teton Data Systems
Medicine and health sciences
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  • Images
40+ electronic books on health-related topics
  • Latest editions

  • Varies by title
Treatment Guidelines from The Medical Letter
  The Medical Letter, Inc.
Medicine and health sciences
  • Text
Review articles of drug classes for treatment of common disorders. Recommends first choice and alternative drugs. Includes access to the Antimicrobial Therapy Handbooks, Adverse Drug Interactions Program, and patient brochures. Searchable.
  • September 1, 2002 -

  • Monthly
USP-NF Online
  The United States Pharmacopeial Convention, Inc. |
   Login Required
   Please ask at Information Desk.

Medicine and health sciences
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  • Images
Contains standards for medicines, dosage forms, drug substances, excipients, medical devices, and dietary supplements.
  • Latest edition

  • Annual update plus two supplements per year
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