Alternative Health Watch
Description: This database focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers libraries full text articles for more than 180 international, and often peer-reviewed journals and reports. In addition, there are hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts. Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine. This database features indexing and abstracts going back as far as 1984, and full text going back as far as 1990.

American Hospital Directory EVMS resource
Description: The American Hospital Directory provides online data for over 6,000 hospitals.
Scope: The information about hospitals is built from both public and private sources including Medicare claims data (MedPAR and OPPS), hospital cost reports, and other files obtained from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
Currency: Frequent updates.
More: Call (757) 446-5851 for the user name and password.

Anatomy.TV  EVMS resource
Description: Anatomy.TV is a suite of 3D interactive models of human anatomy. Intuitive controls allow the user to zoom, rotate and peel away layers to educate and communicate with an ease and directness that was never possible with print. A wealth of supporting media, MRIs, X-rays, live-action movies and animations are also included to supplement anatomy.tv's high resolution, computer-generated models.
More: EVMS users can access Anatomy.TV through the Library's home page.

Associates Programs Source
Description:The Associates Programs Source is designed specifically for junior & community colleges with a primary focus on disciplines of study within associate degrees and certification programs. Areas explored include accounting, agricultural sciences, child care services, cosmetology, culinary arts, forestry, food service management, graphic arts, hair dressing, hospitality management, interior design, journalism, plumbing, heating & air conditioning, veterinary technology and welding to name a few. The database is updated weekly on EBSCOhost.

Bandolier   Free resource
Description: Each month PubMed and the Cochrane Library are searched for systematic reviews and meta-analyses published in the recent past. Those that look remotely interesting are read, and where they are both interesting and make sense, they appear in Bandolier, first in the paper version and, after a few months, on the Web site.
Search: The entire site can be searched or topics can be browsed by clicking on the journal issues or topic sections.
Scope: The impetus behind Bandolier was to find information about evidence of effectiveness (or lack of it), and put the results forward as simple bullet points of those things that worked and those that did not: a bandolier with bullets. Information comes from systematic reviews, meta-analyses, randomized trials, and from high quality observational studies.
Use: Content is limited, but it does have a good training section, with tutorials and essays on EBM principles.
Validity: Content is subject to editorial and peer review.
Currency: Publishing began in 1994. Updates are ongoing and occur frequently.
More: http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/index.html Access to the Web version of Bandolier is free.

BestBETs (Best Evidence Topics)   Free resource
Description: BETs are clinically appraised topics developed in the Emergency Department of Manchester Royal Infirmary, UK, to provide rapid evidence-based answers to real-life clinical questions, using a systematic approach to reviewing the literature.
Search: The database can be searched using Boolean operators or browsed by title or topic.
Scope: Each Topic answers a carefully worded 3-part question, using a structured approach to finding and reviewing the literature.
Use: Although BETs initially had an emergency medicine focus, there are a significant number of BETs covering cardiothoracics, nursing, primary care and pediatrics.
Validity: BETs take into account the shortcomings of much current evidence, allowing physicians to make the best of what there is. 
Currency: Appraised topics provide the initial development date and the date of the latest update.
More: www.bestbets.org Access is free.

Business Source Complete
Description: Business Source Complete is the world's definitive scholarly business database, providing the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included. In addition to the searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200 journals.  

CINAHL EVMS resource
Description: The CINAHL database is the authoritative source of information for the professional literature of nursing, allied health, biomedicine, and health care. The database also includes relevant materials from seventeen allied health disciplines, plus biomedicine, management, behavioural sciences, health sciences librarianship, education, and consumer health.
Search: CINAHL tutorial
Scope: CINAHL database provides references to books, book chapters, pamphlets, audiovisuals, dissertations, educational software, selected conference proceedings, standards of professional practice, nurse practice acts, critical paths, and research instruments. It provides indexing for 2,857 journals with over 1,000,000 citations.
Currency: 1982 to present.
More: EVMS users can access CINAHL through the Library's home page.

Cochrane Library  EVMS resource
Description: Cochrane’s Database of Systematic Reviews (DSR) is a collection of high quality systematic reviews of controlled trials, including unpublished trials, produced by groups of collaborators (researchers and practitioners) who are organized through the Cochrane Collaboration. The Cochrane Library includes 7 other databases including: 1) Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE) - critical assessments and structured abstracts of good systematic reviews published elsewhere and 2) Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CCRCT) - bibliographic information on controlled trials.
Search: Each database within the Cochrane Library can be searched simultaneously by using the keyword search function provided from the home page. Search results (number of hits) are listed according to specific database. To display search results, click on the number of hits located directly across from the database name. The search browser is not organized by clinical conditions. Articles are indexed according to the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). Search by using the keyword search function for the best results. Most articles are provided in full-text.
Scope: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (DSR) includes planned [Protocol] and completed [Review] reviews. The topics reflect the interests and priorities of Cochrane Collaboration members.
Use: DSR is best for therapy or preventive care questions that can be addressed by strong quantitative study designs. (Foreground Questions) Does not cover Diagnosis at this time.
Validity: Strictly controlled methods for identifying, reviewing, and performing the meta-analysis for evidence in each review. Extensive links to source evidence including studies excluded from the review.
Applicability: Systematic reviews often include extensive sub-group analyses and policy considerations. Effect sizes usually expressed as absolute risk reduction and number needed to treat. Cumulative meta-analysis can be displayed for subgroups.
Currency: Publishing began in 1993. Updates occur quarterly, the date of last update is given for each review. Substantive changes are highlighted.
More: EVMS associates can access the Cochrane Library through the library’s home page.

Communication & Mass Media Complete
Description: Communication & Mass Media Complete provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. CMMC incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study to create a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth encompassing the breadth of the communication discipline. CMMC offers cover-to-cover (“core”) indexing and abstracts for more than 440 journals, and selected (“priority”) coverage of nearly 200 more, for a combined coverage of more than 640 titles. Furthermore, this database includes full text for 326 journals.  

Computers & Applied Sciences Complete
Description: Computers & Applied Sciences Complete covers the research and development spectrum of the computing and applied sciences disciplines. CASC provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,720 academic journals, professional publications, and other reference sources from a diverse collection. Full text is also available for more than 670 periodicals.  

Current Index to Statistics (CIS)  EVMS resource
Description: CIS is a bibliographic index to publications in statistics, probability, and related fields.
Search: Supports keyword, author, title, and journal or book title queries.
Scope: References are drawn from 162 core journals (as of 2003) that are fully indexed, non-core journals from which articles are selected that have statistical content, proceedings and edited books, and other sources.
Currency: 1975 to present.
More: EVMS users can access CIS through the Library's home page.

DARE Free resource
Description: DARE is a complimentary site produced by the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) that searches a wide spectrum of medical literature including MEDLINE for meta-analyses.
Search: DARE has a well developed search function and supports Boolean and field searching.
Scope: DARE contains summaries of systematic reviews which have met strict quality criteria. Included reviews have to be about the effects of interventions. Potential reviews are identified by hand searching key medical journals, regular searching of bibliographic databases, and by scanning gray literature and selected Web sites.
Use: The database covers a broad range of health and social care topics and can be used for answering questions about the effects of interventions, as well as for developing guidelines and policy making.
Validity: In order to ensure quality, CRD has a policy of using two members of staff to independently select reviews for inclusion and to produce each structured abstract.
Applicability: Each summary also provides a critical commentary on the quality of the review.
Currency: DARE was created by the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination in 1994. It does, however, include records that have an earlier publication date. There are monthly updates to the Web site.
More: www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/crddatabases.htm Access to DARE is free. Also available through the Cochrane Library.

DYNAMED
Description: DynaMed is a clinical reference tool created by physicians for use primarily at the 'point-of-care'. It contains clinically-organized summaries for nearly 2,000 topics.
Search: The database can be searched by keyword or browsed by condition or category.
Scope: Editors monitor the content of over 400 medical journals and systematic evidence review databases.
Use: “Point-of-care” resource covering risk factors, diagnosis, treatment, prevention, prognosis, and patient information.
Validity: Each publication is reviewed cover-to-cover, and each article is evaluated for clinical relevance and scientific validity. The new evidence is then integrated with existing content, and overall conclusions are changed as appropriate representing a synthesis of the best available evidence. Through this process of systematic literature surveillance, the best available evidence determines the content of DynaMed.
Currency: DynaMed is updated daily
More: EVMS users can access DynaMed through the Library's home page.

Economia y Negocios
Description: Economia y Negociosis the result of a collaborative effort between EBSCO Publishing and ESAN (Escuela de Administración de Negocios para Graduados). More than 70,000 records, dating back to the early 1980s, provide coverage for over 300 Spanish and Portuguese-language periodicals published in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Spain, the United States and elsewhere.

eMedicine (Free resource)
Description: Launched in 1996, www.eMedicine.com comprises one of the largest and most current clinical knowledge databases available to physicians and other health care professionals.
Search: Search across all sections or browse by condition in the Adult Medicine, Adult Surgery or Pediatrics sections.
Scope: Nearly 10,000 physician authors and editors contribute to the eMedicine Clinical Knowledge Base, which contains articles on 7,000 diseases and disorders. The database also contains 30,000 multimedia files and features the largest online repository of medical education credits for physicians, nurses, and optometrists.
Validity: eMedicine's professional content undergoes 4 levels of physician peer review plus an additional review by a PharmD prior to publication.
Currency: The evidence-based content, updated regularly, provides the latest practice guidelines in 59 medical specialties.
More: Register through the eMedicine Web site with Medscape to get free access.

Environment Complete
Description: Environment Complete offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. Environment Complete contains more than 1,772,000 records from more than 1,680 domestic and international titles going back to the 1940s (including 1,108 active core titles) as well as more than 100 monographs. The database also contains full text for more than 650 journals.  

ERIC (OVID) EVMS resource
Description: The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a digital library of education-related resources, sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education. ERIC is the world's largest database of journal and non-journal education literature containing nearly 1.2 million citations going back to 1966.
Search: OVID Tutorial
Scope: ERIC consists of two files: Resources in Education, which covers the document literature, consisting of research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, and books; and Current Index to Journals in Education, which covers published journal literature from over 775 periodicals.
Currency: Over 30,000 records added annually.
More: EVMS users can access ERIC through the Library's home page.

EXAM MASTER ONLINE EVMS resource
Description: EXAM MASTER ONLINE is an USMLE and board preparation review tool that provides access to thousands of basic and clinical sciences questions. The interface allows for quick and easy navigation, and provides the ability to create customized practice exams and study blocks. The EXAM MASTER testing interface closely matches what is actually used on the USMLE exam. This new test mode interface includes other features found on the exam including the ability to attach notes to each question.

Factiva®, from Dow Jones.
Description: Factiva provides essential business news and information together with the content delivery tools and services that enable professionals to make better decisions faster. Factiva’s unrivaled collection of more than 10,000 authoritative sources includes the exclusive combination of The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times™, Dow Jones and Reuters newswires and the Associated Press, as well as Reuters Fundamentals, and D&B company profiles.

Faculty Publications  Free EVMS Resource
Description: The Faculty Publications Database is a searchable catalog of citations to articles, book chapters, and books by EVMS faculty. Citations are selected for inclusion through monthly searches of the biomedical literature and direct submissions by faculty members.
Search: The database can be searched using the author name, keyword, periodical title, and publication date (All indexed fields), or by title, abstract, or addresses (all non-indexed fields.) For example, to search for articles published by a particular EVMS department, set the “Field to Search” to All non-indexed fields, and enter the department under “Data to Locate.” The search terms can be combined using the available Boolean operators (and, or, not) located in the first column.
Currency: The database includes citations from July 1998 to the present.
More: To make submissions, send an email to hornbp@evms.edu.

Fuente Academia
Description: Fuente Académica provides full text (including PDF) for a rapidly growing collection of scholarly Spanish language journals. This multi-disciplinary database offers full text content to many academic areas including business & economics, medical sciences, political science, law, computer science, library & information sciences, literature, linguistics, history, philosophy and theology.