Indexes to the Literature - Databases covering Health and Medicine
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Database index:
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AgeInfo| AIDSInfo
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| Alcohol & Alcohol Problems Database | Alcohol
Studies Database |
| CIRRIE | Clinical Trials | The Cochrane Library | Drugscope
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| EBSCOHost | Herbmed | IBIDS | Medline |
| NHS Evidence | OT-Seeker | PEDro | RehabData (NARIC) |
| SCOPUS | TOXNET
| Web of Science | UKCRN | ZETOC |
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| Databases that Support Professional &
Clinical Practice |
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Resources marked with this icon are recommended: 
Resources marked with this icon include some full-text (use the "360 Link to full text" buttons): 
| Database | Description
| Passwords needed? |
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| AgeInfo | A database of literature about ageing and related health or social care policy issues. Produced by the Centre for Policy on Ageing and made freely available via Social Care Online | Free access |
| AIDSinfo is the main dissemination
point for US federally approved HIV treatment and prevention guidelines |
Free access |
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| National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
(NIAAA), database contains historic alcohol-related research
information, with over 130,000 records from 1972- |
Free access |
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| The database contains over
70,000 citations for journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations,
conference papers, and audio-visual materials, indexed by the Rutgers
University Center of Alcohol Studies since 1987 |
Free access |
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| CIRRIE
(Database of International Rehabilitation Research) |
Database of bibliographic
citations for non US rehabilitation research material. If you wish
to access US published rehabilitation research material, then search
NARIC's RehabData service |
Free access |
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Several resources are available if you want to find out details
of ongoing clinical trials. Unfortunately, none of them are specific
to UK trials:
NB if you want to find details of completed and published clinical
trials, search Medline or The Cochrane Library (for the Central
Register of Controlled Trials) |
Free access |
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The online version of the full Cochrane database includes several
datasets. It gives you access to the full-text
of all Cochrane Collaboration systematic reviews in the Cochrane
Database of Systematic Reviews. It also gives you access
to abstracts for all the controlled clinical trials contained in
The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials.
Furthermore, the CRD databases (DARE, NEED and HTA) are available.
The interface will search across all of the datasets at once, and
display the results for each one separately. There is
a browseable MESH thesaurus, a search history so that you can combine
previous sets, and some date and field limit options so that you
can restrict your search.
The Cochrane Library covers all aspects of health and medicine,
and Cochrane Reviews are considered the "Gold Standard"
of evidence on which to base decisions about healthcare interventions
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Free access |
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| The database will provide
you with references to literature on narcotics and their effects,
all of which has been collated by the Drugscope Library |
Free access |
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EBSCOHost is the search interface to several full-text collections and bibliographic databases (some of them quite discipline specific). You may select multiple indexes and collections, and cross-search them all at the same time. The most appropriate collections are:
You can also set up an account in EBSCOHost, and save your searches, or set up search alerts |
IT account username and password required | |
| Claims to be an evidence-based
information resource for professionals, researchers, and the general
public |
Free access |
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| A database of bibliographic
citations and abstracts from published, international, and scientific
literature on dietary supplements |
Free access |
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See also:
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Medline covers the fields of medicine, nursing, psychiatry, veterinary
medicine, dental literature, neurology and bioscience from 1966-
The database is freely available in several versions (all look
and are searched differently).
PubMed is the most sophisticated version of the database
- use it for complex literature searches. It has a browseable MESH
Database, an advanced search which includes features such as browseable keyword
indices and a search
history. It includes the ability to save searches or set up search alerts (by creating a MyNCBI account), as well as a journals
database (so you can find the full title for journal abbreviations), and other tools such as Clinical Queries.
There is also a citation
matcher (so that you can check up any partial references you
may have, and find the full details).
PubMed Central is an initiative aimed at providing free
access to papers from a core of participating journals. You can
either search PubMed Central directly for papers, or else search
PubMed itself Access to any any of the free, full-text journal
articles will be linked in via the abstracts.
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Free access |
| Database of evidence based guidance for health and social care topics | ||
| A database that contains
abstracts of systematic reviews and randomised controlled trials relevant
to occupational therapy |
Free access |
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PEDro
(Physiotherapy evidence database)
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Bibliographic references
to english language systematic reviews and controlled trials on physiotherapy |
Free access |
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RehabData
(NARIC)
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A literature database on disability and rehabilitation 1956-. Topics
covered include: physical, mental, and psychiatric disabilities,
independent living, vocational rehabilitation, special education,
assistive technology, law, employment, and other issues as they
relate to people with disabilities.
The database includes:
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Free access |
| SCOPUS Click Login (top right), then Go to the Athens / Other Institution login, then choose from the 'Select your region or group' drop down list. |
An interdisciplinary index (with a strong emphasis on science, technology, medicine and social science) of peer reviewed literature from journals, conferences and other sources (including quality scientific web sites). If you need to conduct an in-depth literature search, then using SCOPUS alongside Pubmed and Web of Science will provide a good complement of coverage for most biomedical and health fields. There will be overlaps in coverage (i.e. duplicates) but also material not available in the other services. | |
| a cluster of databases
on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas |
Free access |
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| Web of Science and ISI Proceedings: part of:
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Log into the Web of Knowledge Gateway, and select the Web of Science tab. Use the tick box to select the "Science Citation Index" as your option to search. The Science Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index of journal articles published in over 5,700 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines. ISI Proceedings indexes papers published in scientific conference proceedings | IT account username and password required |
| UK Clinical Research Network (UKCRN) | UKCRN is the umbrella organisation for a series of clinical research networks around the country that coordinate details of clinical research studies (trials and other methodologies) around the UK. The Portfolio Database does not include MRC trials, or the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials
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Free access |
| The British Library's multidisciplinary Electronic Table of Contents database of c. 20,000 journals and approx. 16,000 conference proceedings from 1993- ZETOC Alert is an e-mail current awareness service, that allows you to set up automated e-mail notification of newly published articles and contents pages that match your search criteria | IT account username and password required |