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Licensed Databases available to EVMS users
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freely available databases are included under "By
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subjects
Research
Articles/ Primary Research
Evidence-Based
Medicine
Clinical "Point-of-Care" (brief synopses of best evidence)
Practice Guidelines
Consumer Health
- MedlinePlus
MedlinePlus, National
Library of Medicine’s and the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) consumer
health database featuring extensive information from
trusted sources on over 700 diseases and conditions.
- CAPHIS The Consumer and Patient Health Section (CAPHIS) of the Medical Library
Association (MLA) has selected their top 100 consumer health Web sites.
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Consumer Health Complete
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Salud en Espanol Spanish version of CHC
- Healthfinder Since 1997,
healthfinder® has been recognized as a key resource for
finding the best government and nonprofit health and human services
information on the Internet. It comes from the US Department of Health and
Human Services.
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Medical
Library Association's Top Ten Web Sites The Medical Library Association (MLA) has identified ten particularly useful
Web sites.
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Public Health
Basic Sciences
Psychology/ Social Sciences
Database Collections
Business
Computational Molecular Biology Sources
Computers/
Information Science
Education
Engineering
Environmental
Health/Toxicology
Genomics and
Genetics
Law
Multidisciplinary/Reference
News
Statistical
Sources
Database Information and Tutorials
EVMS network account holders can access these
resources from on-campus through a link on the main
Library Web page.
EVMS network account holders can access them
from off-campus via the EVMS
proxy server.
If you have questions about these resources,
please contact the Library (446-5851) or email the Information Desk (library@evms.edu).
For training information, call April Pace,
Education Coordinator, at
446-5846.
Academic Search Complete
Description: Academic Search Complete
is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary
full-text database, with more than 5,500 full-text periodicals, including more
than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database
offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,500 journals and a total of more
than 10,000 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings,
etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the
majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited
references are provided for nearly 1,000 journals.
Access Medicine
Description: AccessMedicine is designed for direct access to the
information necessary for completing evaluations, diagnoses,
case management decisions, conducting research, medical
education, or self-assessment and board review.
Contains over 55 textbooks including Harrison's Online,
CURRENT Medical Diagnosis and Treatment, Tintinalli's
Emergency Medicine, and the Lange Educational Library.
Includes USMLEasy, with 3,800 USMLE-formatted questions,
answers and explanations including references back to
AccessMedicine for further reading.
Currency: Updated daily by world-renowned physicians and expanded
continuously.
ACP Journal Club
EVMS resource
Description: ACP
Journal Club (ACPJC) is an evidence based surveillance and abstracting service
published by the American
College
of Physicians (ACP). It contains structured abstracts that summarize the
most important methodologically sound articles pertaining to clinical practice.
Search: Uses
'full-text' search techniques (the database will look for search terms in the
article text and title) to find abstracts. Indexed articles provide links to the
PubMed record and are available in full-text. The Basic
Search function allows you to enter key terms and phrases that will be
searched against the ACPJC collection. The Advance Search function
provides a search template that allows the use of Boolean logic
(AND/OR/NOT/NEAR) to combine search terms and search like terms. Click on the
SEARCH button in the tool bar at the top of the page. The default is the Basic
Search. Search results are displayed by the title of the article. Click on the
title and the full-text will be displayed.
Scope: Primary
and secondary (reviews and guidelines) clinical studies that meet key
methodological criteria are summarized and commented on by experts. Covers
internal medicine and primary care.
Use: Best used
for questions that can be addressed using clinical research, strongest for
therapy and prognosis, weaker for diagnosis and causation. (Foreground
Questions)
Validity:
Articles are selected if they report evidence that could change what
practitioners do. Explicit methods of selecting and summarizing articles are
described in the introduction.
Applicability:
Each abstract summarizes details about patients, practitioners and practices;
experts comment on clinical relevance.
Currency:
Publishing began in 1991. Six issues per year.
More: EVMS
associates can access ACP Journal Club through the
Electronic Journals Page.
ACP Medicine EVMS resource
Description: ACP
Medicine is an evidence-based internal medicine diagnosis and treatment
reference. Developed from WebMD® Scientific American® Medicine, ACP Medicine is
continually updated and is available in several print and electronic formats.
Search: ACP
Medicine is designed to allow the user to browse by topic or use a keyword
search function. ACP Medicine provides 'full-text' search techniques (the
database will look for search terms in the article text and title).
Scope: Covers the 15 subspecialties of internal medicine, plus key topics
in Women's Health, Preventive Medicine, Psychiatry, and more.
Use: Organized by
health condition and disease. ACP Medicine provides in-depth coverage of topics.
It is an excellent source for Background Questions.
Validity:
Content is
subject to editorial, peer and user review.
Applicability:
Narrative
summaries of conditions including sections on epidemiology.
Currency:.
Updates are ongoing and occur frequently.
Over 30% new content per year.
More: EVMS associates can
access ACP Medicine from
STAT!Ref.
ACP PIER
EVMS resource
Description:
PIER© is an evidence-based internal medicine guidance tool designed to improve clinical care at
the point of care. PIER© is a product of ACP, The American College of
Physicians. It integrates and builds on other ACP-ASIM publications including
ACP Journal Club and MKSAP. Content derives from evidence-based synopses of the
literature on a condition or disease.
Search: PIER is
designed to allow the user to browse by topic or use a keyword search function.
PIER provides 'full-text' search techniques (the database will look for search
terms in the article text and title).
Scope: PIER© is a
collection of disease modules that can be searched, found alphabetically or
browsed by organ system. Subcategories for each disease are: Prevention,
Screening, Diagnosis, Consultation for Diagnosis, Hospitalization, Non-drug
Therapy, Drug Therapy, Patient Education, Consultation for Management, and
Follow-up.
Additional topics are addressed under Complementary and Alternative Medicine,
Ethical and Legal Issues and Procedures.
Use: Organized by
health condition and disease, optimized for quick review of disease management.
Most complete for prevention, diagnosis and therapy. (Background Questions)
Validity:
Content is
subject to editorial, peer and user review, relies on sources (e.g., ACP Journal
Club) for much of the filtering and appraisal of validity.
Applicability:
Quick access
to lists of key points in disease management. Guidelines are given for
application to patient care.
Currency:
Publishing
began in 2002. Updates are ongoing and occur frequently.
More: EVMS
associates can access ACP PIER from
STAT!Ref.
PDA Access Available: email April Pace at
paceaa@evms.edu for instructions.
(Palm OS devices only)
ACS
(American Chemical Society) Publications
Includes full-text from all 34 American Chemical Society
publications, from the broad coverage journals such as the
Journal of the American Chemical Society to the specialist
journals such as Environmental Science and Technology.
Advanced Polymers Abstracts
Captures technical information about the uses,
manufacturing, and properties of thermoset and thermoplastic
resins -- materials that compete heavily with metals for
structural applications. A a subset of the Engineered
Materials Abstracts database.
Currency: 1982 to present.
African-American Poetry, 1760 – 1900
Over 3.3 million bibliographic
records of journal articles, theses, patents, software, and
technical reports related to agriculture. This
extensive database provides selective worldwide coverage of
primary information sources in agriculture and related
fields. The literature cited is primarily in English, but
over one-third of the database comprises citations in
Western European, Slavic, Asian, and African languages.
Since 1985, the CAB Thesaurus has been used to select
controlled vocabulary terms for subject indexing. Library of
Congress Subject Headings are used as controlled vocabulary
for cataloging records.
Currency: 1970 to present. Updates Monthly.
Currency: 1982 to present.
For the benefit of researchers
working with algae, fungi, protozoa, or lichens, this
journal separates out all the relevant studies in the
literature and organizes them in one source for easy
reference.
Currency: 1982 to present. Updates Monthly.
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.
Alternative Press Index with Archive
Nearly 290 alternative, radical and left periodicals,
newspapers and magazines that report and analyze the
practices and theories of cultural, economic, political and
social change. The coverage in the database currently
extends back to 1991.
Aluminum Industry Abstracts
Comprehensive coverage of the world's technical literature
on aluminum, production processes, products, applications,
and business developments.
Currency: 1971-Current; updates Monthly
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.
American Math Society Journals
Full-text access to all 8 journals published by the AMS.
American Poetry Database
American Poetry includes 40,356 poems from 1,288 works by
209 poets, along with six landmark anthologies of American
poetry. The database gathers the works of the most
influential American poets, from the Colonial period to the
early twentieth century.
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.
Animal Behavior Abstracts
Significant papers relevant to animal behavior, with
subjects ranging from neurophysiology to behavioral ecology,
from genetics to applied ethology, are covered.
Currency: 1982 to present. Updates Monthly.
Annual Reviews
Includes the Biological and Medical Sciences Suite, the
Physical Sciences Suite, and the Social Sciences Suite.
ANTE: Abstracts in New Technologies and Engineering
Coverage includes new technologies such as information
technology and computing, electronics, biotechnology,
medical technology, as well as engineering (including
construction, electrical and chemical engineering) and
allied subject areas.
Currency: 1981-Current; updates Monthly
Aqualine
(1960-)
Provides comprehensive focus on trade, technical and
scientific literature concerning all aspects of water
resources.
Currency: 1960 to present. Updates Monthly.
ArticleFirst
Index of articles from the areas of business, science,
humanities, social sciences, medicine, technology, and
popular culture.
Arts & Humanities Search
Arts and Humanities Search indexes more than 1,300 of the
world's leading arts and humanities journals.
ASFA 1: Biological Sciences and Living Resources
Provides extensive coverage of basic and applied research on
aquatic organisms.
Currency: 1971 to present. Updates Monthly.
ASFA 2: Ocean Technology, Policy and Non-Living
Resources
Coverage spans the wide-ranging fields of oceanography:
physical, descriptive, dynamical, chemical, geological, and
biological aspects areextensively examined, as well as
limnology, ocean engineering, and specific resources.
Currency: 1971 to present. Updates Monthly.
ASFA 3: Aquatic Pollution and Environmental Quality
Abstracts journal devoted exclusively to research and policy
on the contamination of oceans, seas, lakes, rivers, and
estuaries.
Currency: 1990 to present. Updates Monthly.
ASFA Aquaculture Abstracts
Provides specific coverage of the planned management of
aquatic organisms.
Currency: 1984 to present. Updates Monthly.
ASFA Marine Biotechnology Abstracts
Summarizes findings and practical applications concerned
with the science, technology, and management of marine
environments.
Currency: 1989 to present. Updates Monthly.
ASFA: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts Database
Collection
Provided by a growing network of information centers
monitoring over 5,000 serial publications, books, reports,
conference proceedings, translations and limited
distribution literature.
ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts
An indexing and abstracting tool covering health, social
services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race
relations and education. Updated monthly, ASSIA provides a
comprehensive source of social science and health
information for the practical and academic professional.
ASSIA currently contains over 375,000 records from over 500
journals published in 16 different countries, including the
UK and US.
Currency: 1987 to present. Updates Monthly.
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.
Association for
Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library
Citations and full-text articles in the area of computing
and information technologies from journals, magazines, and
conference proceedings published by the ACM, one of the
world's largest computing societies.
Bacteriology Abstracts (Microbiology B)
Provides access to clinical findings as well as all aspects
of pure bacteriology, biochemistry, and genetics.r-reaching
clinical findings as well as all aspects of pure
bacteriology, biochemistry, and genetics. Currency: 1982 to present.
Updates Monthly.
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.
Biology Digest
A compilation of abstracts and indexes of domestic and
international literature in the area of life sciences.
Currency: 1989 to present. Updates Monthly.
BioOne
Includes a broad selection of full-text, peer-reviewed
journals & bulletins published by American Institute of
Biological Sciences (AIBS) member societies & other closely
related organizations. Currently, around 45 journals are
available.
Currency: 2000 to present. Updates Monthly.
Biotechnology and Bioengineering Abstracts
Covers ground-breaking research, applications, regulatory
developments and new patents across all areas of
biotechnology and bioengineering, including medical,
pharmaceutical, agricultural, environmental and marine
biology.
Currency: 1982 to present. Updates Monthly.
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.
Currency: 1982 to present.
Calcium and Calcified Tissue Abstracts
Assembles pertinent information from wide-ranging sources,
reflecting the multi-disciplinary nature of calcium
research.
Currency: 1982 to present. Updates Monthly.
Ceramic Abstracts/World Ceramic Abstracts
Provides international coverage on the manufacture,
processing, applications, properties and testing of
traditional and advanced ceramics.
Currency: 1975 to present. Updates Monthly.
Chemoreception Abstracts
Brings together studies from many diverse disciplines
relating to the biochemistry, neurobiology, molecular
biology, and physiology of smell, taste, internal
chemoreception, chemotaxis, and infochemicals such as
pheromones.
Currency: 1982 to present. Updates Monthly.
CINAHL
EVMS resource
Description: The
CINAHL database is the authoritative source of information for the
professional literature of nursing, allied health, biomedicine, and
healthcare. 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.
Clase and Periódica
Indexes documents published in Latin American journals
specializing in the social sciences and humanities.
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.
Columbia
International Affairs Online (CIAO)
Full text of more than 400 working papers, 40 conference
proceedings, and 10 books annually, as well as abstracts
from leadinginternational relations research journals, brief
reports, monthly statistics and maps.
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.
Composites Industry Abstracts
Focuses on polymers and ceramics reinforced with fibers,
honeycombs, whiskers and laminates. Sources covered include
over 3,000 periodicals, conference proceedings, technical
reports, trade journal/newsletter items, patents, books, and
press releases.
Currency: 1981-Current; updates Monthly
Computer and Information Systems Abstracts
Provides a comprehensive monthly update on the latest
theoretical research and practical applications. Includes
over 3,000 periodicals, conference proceedings, technical
reports, trade journal/newsletter items, patents, books, and
press releases.
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.
Conference Papers Index
Conference Papers provides
citations to papers and poster sessions presented at major
scientific meetings around the world.
Currency: 1982 to present. Updates Bimonthly.
Consumer Health Complete
Comprehensive resource for
consumer-oriented health content. It is designed to support
patients' information needs and foster an overall
understanding of health-related topics. CHC provides content
covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream
medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic
and integrated medicine. This full text database covers
topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol,
fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, men &
women's health, etc.
Contemporary Women's Issues
Contemporary Women's Issues (CWI) is a multidisciplinary,
full-text database that brings together relevant content
from mainstream periodicals, "gray" literature, and the
alternative press, with a focus on the critical issues and
events that influence women's lives in more than 190
countries. CWI includes English-language titles from East
and West Africa, Asia, and South and Central America, the
Caribbean, North America and Europe.
Includes information from journals, newsletters, research reports from
non-profit groups, government and international agencies,
along with fact sheets.
Copper Data Center Database
Online bibliographic database of the world's literature on
copper, copper alloys, and copper technology.
Currency: 1965 to present. Updates Monthly.
Corrosion Abstracts
International sources of literature are scanned and
abstracted in the areas of general corrosion, testing,
corrosion characteristics, preventive measures, materials
construction and performance, and equipment for many
industries.
Currency: 1980 to present. Updates Monthly.
CRC Handbook of
Chemistry & Physics
Online version of reference work that provides chemical and
physical data for scientists and engineers.
CSA Biological Sciences Database Collection
Offers abstracts and citations to a wide range of research
in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology and ecology, and some
aspects of agriculture and veterinary science.
Currency: 1982 to present. Updates Monthly.
CSA Engineered Materials Abstracts
An electronic database containing Ceramics, Composites and
Polymers subfiles. Sources covered include over 3,000
periodicals, conference proceedings, technical reports,
trade journal/newsletter items, patents, books, and press
releases.
Currency: 1986 to present. Updates Monthly.
CSA Materials Business File
Covers industry news, product and process developments,
plant development and construction, international trade
data, government regulations, and management issues.
Currency: 1985 to present. Updates Monthly.
CSA Mechanical and Transportation Engineering
Provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the serials
literature in mechanical and transportation engineering and
their complementary fields.
Currency: 1966 to present. Updates Monthly.
CSA Neurosciences Abstracts
Covers all aspects of vertebrate and invertebrate
neuroscience.
Currency: 1982 to present. Updates Monthly.
CSA Technology Collection
Searches the CSA technology and engineering databases.
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.
Dissertation Abstracts
The complete range of academic subjects appearing in
dissertations accepted at accredited institutions.
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 in Family Medicine.
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.
PDA Access Available: email April Pace at
paceaa@evms.edu for instructions and a
unique serial number.
Ecology Abstracts
Focuses on how organisms interact with their environments
and with other organisms. Includes relevant papers on
evolutionary biology, economics, and systems analysis as
they relate to ecosystems or the environment.
Currency: 1982 to present. Updates Monthly.
EconLit
Indexes and abstracts 400 journals as well as working
papers, dissertations and books. Produced by the Journal of
Economic Literature.
Currency: 1969 to present. Updates Monthly.
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.
Education Research Complete
Description:
Education Research Complete is the definitive online
resource for education research. Topics covered include all
levels of education from early childhood to higher
education, and all educational specialties, such as
multilingual education, health education, and testing.
Education Research Complete provides indexing and
abstracts for more than 1,840 journals, as well as full text
for more than 950 journals, and includes full text for more
than 81 books and monographs, and for numerous
education-related conference papers.
EIS: Digests of Environmental Impact Statements
Extracts key issues from government-released environmental
impact statements. Each entry includes a description of the
project, sections on positive impact and negative
consequences, and legal mandates.
Currency: 1985 to present. Updates Bimonthly.
Electronics and Communications Abstracts
Provides international coverage as well as coverage of
numerous non-serial publications. Sources covered include
over 3,000 periodicals, conference proceedings, technical
reports, trade journal/newsletter items, patents, books, and
press releases.
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
healthcare 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.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Provides the complete text of
Encyclopaedia Britannica with search capabilities,
related links, and multimedia enhancements.
Engineered Materials Abstracts
Engineered Materials Abstracts
is an electronic database containing Ceramics, Composites
and Polymers subfiles. EMA is specifically designed to serve
materials sciences researchers, engineers and scientists.
Currency: 1986 to present. Updates Monthly.
English Poetry 600-1900
English Poetry, 600-1900, contains poems in English from
Anglo-Saxon times to the end of the nineteenth century by
writers from the British Isles. It covers the works of 1,257
named poets and many items by different anonymous hands.
Entomology Abstracts
Gathers and summarizes recent information on millions of
insects and insect-like species.
Currency: 1982 to present. Updates Monthly.
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.
Environmental Engineering Abstracts
Environmental Science and Pollution Management
Currency: 1967 to present. Updates Monthly.
ERIC 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: EBSCOhost
Tutorial; 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
harnetsm@evms.edu.
FirstSearch
EVMS resource
Description: FirstSearch is an OCLC services providing access to 20
databases including WorldCat and ArticleFirst.
Search: The database supports Boolean (and, or, not) searching and offers
basic keyword searching and advanced field searching. Users can also limit a
search by database or topic.
Scope: FirstSearch offers access to more than 10 million full-text and
full-image articles on most research topics.
More: EVMS
users can access FirstSearch through the
Library's home page.
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.
Genetics Abstracts
The amalgamation of recombinant DNA technology with
traditional genetics has sparked a proliferation of
specialized journals and primary papers - heralding an era
of immensely diversified research directions. Since recent
studies have shown that research work conducted in one
organism is relevant to many other experimental systems,
scientists need a practical means for keeping up with
wide-ranging findings that are important to their own
studies. Genetics Abstracts provides that means, sifting the
worldwide literature for significant advances as they happen
and forging an essential link among different systems. Its
unique blend of articles gives readers the widest possible
perspective of genetics as a whole, from microbes to plants
to humans. The burgeoning field of molecular genetics is
emphasized, with important information on all aspects of
DNA, differentiation and development, RNA, protein
synthesis, ribosomes, nuclear proteins and chromatin,
enzymes, and gene regulation. 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.
Currency: 1982 to present. Updates Monthly.
GEOBASE
Records covering the worldwide literature on geology,
geography and ecology.
GPO Monthly Catalog
Records of all subjects of interest to the US Government.
Produced by the Government Printing Office.
GreenFILE
In keeping with our commitment to environmental
consciousness, EBSCO proudly offers GreenFILE, a freely
accessible research database focusing on the relationship
between human beings and the environment, with
well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging
from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources
and beyond. Comprised of scholarly and general interest
titles, as well as government documents and reports,
GreenFILE offers a unique perspective on the positive and
negative ways humans affect the ecology. Drawing on the
connection between the environment and disciplines such as
agriculture, education, law, health and technology,
GreenFILE will serve as an informative resource for anyone
concerned about the issues facing our planet.
GreenFILE's initial release will include A&I for more than
600 titles, including comprehensive coverage – from to
volume 1, issue 1 to present – for Bioscience (back
to 1964), Conservation Biology (back to 1987), i>Journal
of Ecology (back to 1913) and Journal of Environmental
Planning & Management (back to 1948). The total number
of records is approximately 295,000, and full text is
provided for more than 4,600 records from open access
titles. Note: Be sure to set a bookmark for
http://www.greeninfoonline.com. This link takes you
directly to the GreenFILE database.
HarpWeek
EVMS
resource
Description: HarpWeek is the full text of Harper’s Weekly from 1857
through 1912.
More: EVMS
users can access HarpWeek through the Library's
home page.
Cited studies
are geared to help individuals identify, evaluate, and
eliminate or control risks and hazards across the spectrum
of environmental and occupational situations. The database
provides the latest perspectives on topics of widespread
concern such as aviation and aerospace safety, environmental
safety, nuclear safety, medical safety occupational safety,
and ergonomics. Health and safety related aspects of
pollution, waste disposal, radiation, pesticides, epidemics
- and countless other phenomena having the potential to
threaten the public, the environment, or the workplace
itself - are reported here. Drawing on government reports as
well as journal articles, conference proceedings, books, and
other publications, Health and Safety Science Abstracts
synthesizes the most important new developments in safety
science and human factors research.
Currency: 1981 to present.
Updates Monthly.
Health Source: Consumer Edition
Description:
This database is the richest collection of consumer health
information available to libraries worldwide, providing
information on many health topics including the medical
sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports
medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer
Edition provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer
health magazines.
Health Source: Nursing/ Academic Edition
Description:
This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text
journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health
Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features the
Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug
patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
Hospitality & Tourism Complete
Description: Hospitality & Tourism Index is a
bibliographic database covering scholarly research and
industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and
tourism. This comprehensive database contains more than
721,000 records from more than 650 titles, with coverage
dating as far back as 1965.
Human Genome Abstracts
Offers a comprehensive source for developments and promising
applications emerging from international genome research,
including the massive Human Genome Project.
Currency: 1990-1995
Humanities International Complete
Description: Humanities International Complete
provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other
published sources from around the world. Produced by
Whitston Publishing (an imprint of EBSCO Publishing), this
database includes all data from Humanities International
Index (more than 2,000 journals and 2 million records)
plus unique full text content, much of which is not found in
other databases. The database includes full text for more
than 730 journals.
Immunology Abstracts
Summarizes studies relating to all aspects of immune systems
in man and animals, in normal functions and disorders.
Industrial and Applied Microbiology Abstracts (Microbiology A)Assembles
significant findings and practical applications in
agricultural, food and beverage, chemical, and
pharmaceutical industries.
Currency: 1982 to present. Updates Monthly.
IOP (Institute of Physics)
Journals
Full-text access to IOP journals.
Legal Collection
Description:
This database contains full text for more than 250 of the
world's most respected, scholarly law journals. The Legal
Collection is an authoritative source for information on
current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal
world.
LexisNexis Academic
Description: News and business content from newspapers, periodicals, television and radio
broadcasts, newswires, blogs, corporate directories and
financial information. Search deep backfiles of hundreds of
local, regional, and national newspapers from around the
world, in English and major European languages.
Over 6,000 individual sources.
LexisNexis Congressional
Description: The most
comprehensive online resource available for Congressional
hearings, public issues, legislation, history, and legal
research.
Perform
in-depth research with access to the full-text of more than
214 years worth of detailed information about Congress,
including member biographies, committee assignments, voting
records, financial data, and the full-text of key regulatory
and statutory resources.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
Abstracts and indexes the
international literature in linguistics and related
disciplines in the language sciences. The database covers
all aspects of the study of language including phonetics,
phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete
coverage is given to various fields of linguistics including
descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and
geographical linguistics. The database provides abstracts of
journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from
over 1,500 serials publications, and also provides abstracts
of books, book chapters, and dissertations.
Currency:
1973-Current:Monthly
updates.
EBSCO Publishing is proud to
provide the Library, Information Science & Technology
Abstracts (LISTA) database as a free resource to
anyone interested in libraries and information management.
This world-class bibliographic database provides coverage on
subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging,
bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information
management and more. Delivered via the EBSCOhost
platform, LISTA indexes nearly 600 periodicals plus books,
research reports, and proceedings. With coverage dating back
to the mid-1960s, it is the oldest continuously produced
database covering the field of information science.
Note: Be sure to set a bookmark
for
www.libraryresearch.com. This link takes you directly to
the LISTA database.
Literature Resource Center
Full-text biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses
of more than 120,000 writers from a variety of periods and
disciplines. Includes access to the MLA International
Bibliographic database.
Masterfile Premier
Description:
This multidisciplinary database provides full text for more
than 1,750 general reference publications with full text
information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually
every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE
Premier also includes nearly 500 full text reference
books, full text from 86,019 biographies, 105,787 full text
primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 293,480
photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via
EBSCOhost.
Materials Research Database with METADEX
Sources covered include over 3,000 periodicals, conference
proceedings, technical reports, trade journal/newsletter
items, patents, books, and press releases. Includes 8
subfiles.
MDConsult
EVMS resource
Description: MDConsult is a database produced by a joint venture of the
leading medical publishers that includes more than 50 full text reference works,
over 70 full text key medical journals, 6,500 patient education handouts, 600
peer-reviewed practice guidelines, and full text drug information.
Search: MDConsult supports basic and advanced searching. You may
search through all sections simultaneously for your topic or limit your search
to type of resource. Book and journals titles can also be searched
individually.
Scope: In addition medical textbooks and journals, MD Consult
reports on "Today in Medicine," "What patients are reading", and other sources
of current medical information, along with offering CME opportunities.
Use: Helpful resource for physicians and other healthcare professionals.
Currency:
Weekly
updates.
More: EVMS users can access MDConsult through the
Library's home page.
Medical
Modeling and Simulation Database (MMSD)
Description: The premier gateway to a broad
array of resources and services related to the medical
modeling and simulation world, including content for
practitioners, researchers, and those working in academia.
Contains a Research Articles database, a Companies and
Products database, and a Simulation Centers database.
Currency: Updated quarterly.
MedicLatina
Description:
MedicLatina is a unique collection
of medical research and investigatory journals from renowned
Latin American and Spanish publishers. This Spanish language
database contains full text for nearly 120 peer-reviewed
medical journals in native Spanish.
MEDLINE
EVMS resource
Description: MEDLINE®, the National Library of Medicine's (NLM)
bibliographic database, is the primary source in the United States for
information from the biomedical literature, containing over 16 million
references to articles from more than 4,800 journals. MEDLINE® is the
computerized counterpart of Index Medicus, the Index to Dental Literature, and
the International Nursing Index.
Search:
EBSCOhost Tutorial; OVID
Tutorial
Scope: MEDLINE® covers basic biomedical research and the clinical
sciences since 1966. It also includes nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine,
pharmacy, allied health, and pre-clinical sciences. The full text of the article
is generally not provided, but over 75 percent of the records contain abstracts
written by the article's author. The database is international in scope.
Use: This version of MEDLINE® (see also PubMed and PubMed LinkOut below)
is produced by OVID and identifies which journals are held in the EVMS Library
collection. OVID MEDLINE provides full-text links to 140 journals.
Currency: Updated daily. Indexed citations to 1966. Un-indexed
citations from 1950-1966.
More: EVMS users can access MEDLINE through the
Library's home page.
MedlinePlus
(Consumer Health)
Free resource
Description: MedlinePlus provides information to help answer health
questions. MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from NLM, the
National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and
health-related organizations.
Search: Search
tips
Scope: Contains extensive information from the National Institutes
of Health and other trusted sources on over 700 diseases and conditions. There
are also lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia and a medical
dictionary, health information in Spanish, extensive information on prescription
and nonprescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to
thousands of clinical trials.
Currency: MedlinePlus is updated daily.
More: http://medlineplus.gov. Access
to MedlinePlus is free.
Mergent Horizon
Mergent Horizon is a detailed industrial classification
system that maps companies to their core lines of
business and captures relationship exposure to their
suppliers, partners, customers and competitors. By
classifying companies according to their products and
services, Mergent Horizon allows for true comparables by
providing information that helps students understand a
company and its competitive position in the marketplace.
Mergent Online
Mergent Online is the authoritative source for
information on over 10,000 US companies listed on the
NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ exchanges, 20,000 non-US companies
representing 95% of the non-US global market
capitalization, 8,000 inactive companies which have been
merged, acquired etc., and over 1 million privately held
companies. Mergent Online includes financial
information, annual reports, executive biographies, and
historical information outlining merger and acquisition
activity and extensive bankruptcy and reorganization
details.
METADEX
Comprehensive source for information on metals and alloys: their properties,
manufacturing, applications, and development. Contains over 1,425,000
references.
Military & Government Collection
Description:
Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and
government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic
journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites.
The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text
for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for nearly
400 titles.
MLA International Bibliography
(InfoTrac)
EVMS resource
Description: The MLA International Bibliography is a subject index
for books and articles published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and
linguistics. It is produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA).
More: EVMS
users can access MLA Int. Bib. through the
Library's home page.
NCJRS: National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts
Published by the Office of
Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice's National
Criminal Justice Reference Service, an information
clearinghouse for people around the U.S. and the world
involved with research, policy, and practice related to
criminal and juvenile justice, and drug control. The NCJRS
Abstracts Database contains summaries of over 189,000 U.S.
and international publications, including federal, state,
and local government reports, books, research reports,
journal articles, audiovisual presentations, and unpublished
research. The NCJRS Abstracts Database excludes most legal
decisions, opinions, and statutes. The collection has been
developed to meet the needs of criminal justice
professionals, researchers, policymakers, and technical and
legal experts. Unique elements of the collection include
agency produced documents and final grant reports of Office
of Justice Programs sponsored research. Documents are either
written in English or have an English-language summary.
Currency: 1970 to present. Updates Monthly.
Newspaper Source
Description:
Newspaper Source Plus provides cover-to-cover full text
for 131 national & international newspapers and selective
full text for more than 335 U.S newspapers. The database
also contains full-text television & radio news transcripts.
Nucleic Acids Abstracts
Includes detailed perspectives on innovative cloning and
sequencing strategies as well as gene regulatory sequences
and proteins, RNA processing and transport, RNA editing DNA
biosynthesis, transcription factors and oncoproteins.
Currency: 1982 to present. Updates Monthly.
Oceanic Abstracts
Focuses on marine biology and physical oceanography,
fisheries, aquaculture, non-living resources, meteorology
and geology, plus environmental, technological, and
legislative topics.
Currency: 1981 to present. Updates Monthly.
Oncogenes and Growth Factors Abstracts
Covers every aspect of oncogene research into the molecular
basis of malignant transformations.
Currency: 1989 to present. Updates Monthly.
OTSeeker
Free resource
Description:
OTSeeker contains abstracts of systematic reviews and randomized controlled
trials relevant to occupational therapy.
Search: The database can be searched by keyword or field.
Scope: Occupational therapy practice.
Use: Use to answer questions about the effects of interventions or
treatments.
Validity: Trials have been critically appraised and rated to help
evaluate their validity and interpretability.
Currency: On-going updates.
More:
www.otseeker.com/ Access to OTSeeker is free.
Oxford English Dictionary
EVMS
resource
Description: The
Oxford English Dictionary is "the ultimate authority on the English language as
well as a history of English speech and thought from its infancy to the present
day". It is a unique source of scholarly information on the meaning, history and
pronunciation of words both past and present.
More: EVMS
users can access the OED through the Library's
home page.
Oxford Reference
Online
Premium Collection contains more than 100 Oxford University
Press dictionaries and reference books. Texts are updated
after new editions of the print book are published.
PAIS International with Archive
Contains references to more than 553,300 journal articles,
books, government documents, statistical directories, grey
literature, researchreports, conference reports,
publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet
material, and more.
Currency: 1972 to present. Updates Monthly.
PapersFirst
Papers included in every congress, conference, exposition,
workshop, symposium, and meeting received at The British
Library.
Pedro: The
Physiotherapy Evidence Database Free
Description: PEDro is the Physiotherapy Evidence Database. It has been developed to give
rapid access to bibliographic details and abstracts of randomized controlled
trials, systematic reviews and evidence-based clinical practice guidelines in
physiotherapy.
Search: The
database can be searched by keyword or field.
Scope: Physiotherapy
Use: Use to answer questions about the effects of interventions or
treatments.
Validity: Most
trials on the database have been rated for quality to help you quickly
discriminate between trials which are likely to be valid and interpretable and
those which are not.
Currency: Updated
monthly.
More: www.pedro.fhs.usyd.edu.au/ Access
to PEDro is free.
Physical Education Index
Indexed and classified records from peer-reviewed journals,
report literature, conference proceedings, trade magazines,
patents, and other publications. Includes abstracts, e-mail
addresses, expanded publisher and author information, and
other data.
Currency: 1970 to present. Updates Monthly.
Plant Science
Includes citations and abstracts of scientific literature on
plant science, focussing on all plant scientific aspects,
especially on pathology, symbiosis, biochemistry, genetics,
biotechnology, techniques and environmental biology.
Currency: 1994 to present. Updates Monthly.
Pollution Abstracts
Provides access to environmental information necessary to
resolve day-to-day problems, ensure ongoing compliance, and
handle emergency situations more effectively.
ProceedingsFirst
Citations and the table of contents for every congress,
symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting
received at the British Library.
Project Muse
Offers 250 journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers. One
of the academic community's primary electronic journals
resources, it covers the fields of literature and criticism,
history, visual and performing arts, cultural studies,
education, and others.
PsycArticles
Definitive source of searchable full-text, peer-reviewed,
scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. Contains 59
journals – 48 published by the American Psychological
Association (APA) and 11 from allied organizations.
PsychBITE
Free resource
Description:
PsychBITE™
(Psychological Database for Brain Impairment Treatment Efficacy) is a database
that catalogues studies of cognitive, behavioral and other treatments for
psychological problems and issues occurring as a consequence of acquired brain
impairment (ABI). The types of studies contained on this database are Systematic
Reviews, Randomized Controlled Trials (RCT), Non-Randomized Controlled Trials
(non-RCT), Case Series (CS), and Single Subject Design (SSD).
Search: The
database can be searched by keyword or field.
Scope: PsychBITE encompasses a range of disciplines including neurology,
nursing, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, psychiatry, psychogeriatrics,
rehabilitation medicine, social work, and speech pathology obviously,
psychology.
Use: To enable clinicians and researchers to quickly identify, evaluate and
implement evidence-based interventions for psychological issues experienced by
people with acquired brain impairment.
Validity: Studies are rated for their methodological quality, evaluating
various aspects of scientific rigor.
Currency: On-going
updates.
More:
http://www.PsycBITE.com Access to
PsychBite is free.
PsycINFO
EVMS
resource
Description: PsycINFO® is an electronic bibliographic database that provides
abstracts and citations to the scholarly literature in the behavioral sciences
and mental health. It is the complete American Psychological Association
database.
Search:
EBSCOhost Tutorial; OVID
Tutorial
Scope: PsycINFO® contains citations and
summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, as
well as citations to dissertations, in the field of psychology and the
psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry,
nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics,
anthropology, business, and law. It
includes international material selected from more than 2,000 periodicals
written in over 25 languages.
Currency: 1800s to the present. Over 100,000 references
are added annually through regular updates.
More: EVMS
users can access PsycINFO through the Library's
home page.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
Description:
This database provides nearly 575 full text publications, including nearly 550
peer-reviewed titles. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection covers
topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry &
psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental
methods. Nearly every full text title included in this database is indexed in
PsycINFO.
Currency: This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
PubMed
Free Resource
Description: PubMed is the National
Library of Medicine's (NLM) free version of Medline. It includes the complete
Medline database. MEDLINE®, NLM's bibliographic database, is the primary source
in the United States for information from the biomedical literature, containing
over 16 million references to articles from more than 4,800 journals. MEDLINE®
is the computerized counterpart of Index Medicus, the Index to Dental
Literature, and the International Nursing Index.
Search: PubMed
tutorial
www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/pubmed.html
Scope: MEDLINE® covers basic biomedical research and the clinical
sciences since 1966. It also includes nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine,
pharmacy, allied health, and pre-clinical sciences. The full text of the article
is generally not provided, but over 75 percent of the records contain abstracts
written by the article's author. The database is international in scope.
Currency: Updated daily. Indexed citations to 1966. Un-indexed
citations from 1950-1966.
More: EVMS users can access PubMed through the
Library's home page
or directly at http://pubmed.gov.
PubMed LinkOut
provides links from Medline citations to EVMS
full-text journals.
FAQSee PubMed above.
PubMed: Clinical Queries
Free resource
(http://pubmed.gov) or (better) through
EVMS
library
for Link-out version of PubMed with links to select full-text.
Description:
PubMed
Clinical Queries offers a user-friendly filtered search approach to the Medline
database. Designed for busy practitioners, Clinical Queries is a specialized
interface that provides fast, reliable access to clinical studies that are more
likely to have strong research methods.
Search:
Clinical
Queries offers four clinical study categories to choose from: therapy,
diagnosis, etiology, and prognosis. Searches can also be limited by sensitivity (for broad
search results) or specificity (for precise search results). Systematic Reviews only.
Scope:
Covers evidence-based studies contained within the Medline database of 16 million
citations.
Use:
Best source
when searching for recent biomedical journal articles. (Foreground Questions)
Validity: Pre-set methodological filters enable the searcher to quickly
locate the relevant literature in the four clinical categories.
Applicability:
Clinical Query
includes search filters for therapy, diagnosis, etiology, and prognosis.
Currency:
Updates are
ongoing and occur daily.
More:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/clinical.html
Free resource.
Regional Business News
Description: This database provides
comprehensive full text coverage for regional business
publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage
of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all
metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This
database is updated on a daily basis.
Religion & Philosophy Collection
Description: Religion & Philosophy Collection
provides extensive coverage of such topics as world
religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious
history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of
language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy.
Religion & Philosophy Collection offers nearly 300 full
text journals, including more than 250 peer-reviewed titles,
making it an essential tool for researchers and students of
theology and philosophical studies.
Risk Abstracts
Provides broad, multidisciplinary coverage of risk-related
concerns ranges from public and environmental health to
social issues and psychological aspects.
Currency: 1990-Current; updates Quarterly
Safety Science & Risk Abstracts
Provides comprehensive, timely
information across the fields of public health, safety, and
industrial hygiene. Cited studies are geared to help
researchers identify, evaluate, and eliminate or control
risks and hazards from environmental and occupational
situations.
Currency: 1981-Current; updates Monthly
Social Services Abstracts
CSA Social Services Abstracts provides bibliographic
coverage of current research focused on social work, human
services, and related areas, including social welfare,
social policy, and community development. The database
abstracts and indexes over 1,300+ serials publications and
includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations,
and citations to book reviews.
Currency: 1979-Current; updates Monthly
Sociological Abstracts
Provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book
reviews drawn from over 1,800+ serials publications, and
also provides abstracts of books, book chapters,
dissertations, and conference papers.
Currency: 1952-Current; updates Monthly
Solid State and Superconductivity Abstracts
Provides global coverage on all aspects of theory,
production, and application of solid state materials and
devices - as well as the new high- and low-temperature
superconductivity technology.
STAT!Ref EVMS resource
Description: STAT!Ref is an electronic medical library that enables users to cross-search
more than 20 medical textbook resources including ACP Pier, ACP Medicine,
Harrison's, the Red Book, DrugPoint Systems, and the
Griffith 5 Minute Clinical Consult.
Search: STAT!Ref
allows you to search either an individual book, selected books, or all books.
STAT!Ref permits the use of Boolean operators, AND OR NEAR or ADJ, as well as
allowing you to select how NEAR (how many words apart) words should be.
Online quick guide
Scope: Full-text medical and drug information for healthcare professionals
from medical textbooks.
Currency: STAT!Ref contains the latest electronic updates of included
textbooks and databases.
More: EVMS users can access STAT!Ref through the
Library's home page.
STAT-USA
STAT-USA/Internet, a service of the U.S. Department
of Commerce, is a single point of access to authoritative business, trade,
and economic information from across the Federal Government.
Teacher Reference Center (TRC)
This index of over 260 titles from the most popular teacher
and administrator trade journals, periodicals, and books is
now also offered free via the EBSCOhost
platform. This database provides coverage on key education
topics such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current
Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional
Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science &
Mathematics, and more for K-12 Teachers & Librarians.
Toxicology Abstracts
Covers issues from social poisons and substance abuse to
natural toxins, from legislation and recommended standards
to environmental issues.
Currency: 1981 to present. Updates Monthly.
Toxline
Provides bibliographic citations and abstracts from the core
journal literature in toxicology. Produced by the National
Library of Medicine. Currency: 1996 to present.
Updates Monthly.
UpToDate
EVMS resource available on-campus or at EVMS clinical
locations only
Description:
UpToDate
is a clinical consulting tool covering the internal medicine
subspecialties, family medicine and pediatrics. Topic
reviews are based on clinical conditions. Topic cards may
contain aids such as graphs, photos, calculators, and links
to drug information and MEDLINE abstracts of cited articles.
Search: Browse
the table of contents or search using key words. Searches
can be narrowed by a topic list or by entering a second
search term after the first search is completed. No Boolean
searching. UpToDate also provides a tutorial on their
website.
Scope: Covers
internal medicine, family medicine, pediatrics, and
obstetrics; some are still in development. Strong in all
areas including clinical presentation, differential
diagnosis, and causation but the “strength of evidence”
is best presented for therapy. Some patient education
materials are available.
Use: Best
for questions relating to diagnosis and disease management. (Background
Questions)
Validity: Topic
reviews are written by experts and peer reviewed. Reviewers
monitor over 200 journals each month. UpToDate includes
detailed up-to-date references for each topic card;
references link to Medline abstracts. Editors are developing
a process to make topic reviews explicitly evidence-based.
Currency: Publishing
began in 1992. Updates occur every 4 months, date of last
update is given for each topic card.
More: www.uptodate.com
Individual
annual subscriptions are about $500.
Vente et Gestion
Description: Vente et Gestion provides full
text coverage for French language business journals serving
both the academic and the professional researcher. This
collection also includes publications covering topics such
as accounting & tax, administration, industry &
manufacturing, marketing, logistics, technology and others.
Virginia
Heritage Project
Virginia Heritage, a consolidated database of finding aids
to manuscript and archival collections, provides information
about historical materials that document Virginia history
and culture from 1607 to the present.
Virology and AIDS Abstracts
Comprehensive coverage of the world literature on every
aspect of virology in humans, animals, and plants is
featured, with topics ranging from replication cycles to
oncology.
Currency: 1982 to present. Updates monthly.
Water Resources Abstracts
Provides summaries of the world's technical and scientific
literature on water-related topics covering the
characteristics, conservation, control, pollution,
treatment, use and management of water resources.
Currency: 1967 to present. Updates monthly.
WELDASEARCH
Contains abstracts to journal articles, research reports,
books, st&ards, patents, theses & special publications in
the areas of joining metals, plastics & ceramics, metal &
ceramic spraying, thermal cutting, brazing, soldering and
related topics.
Women's Studies International
Description: Women’s Studies International,
produced by NISC, covers the core disciplines in Women’s
Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research.
Coverage includes more than 586,600 records and spans from
1972 and earlier to present. This database supports
curriculum development in the areas of sociology, history,
political science & economy, public policy, international
relations, arts & humanities, business and education. Over
2,000 periodical sources are represented.
World Almanacs
Includes biographies, encyclopedia entries, facts, and
statistics.
WorldCat EVMS
resource
Description: WorldCat is a worldwide
union catalog created and maintained collectively by more than 9,000 member
institutions.
Search: Search through FirstSearch (above).
Scope: WorldCat-listed resources span thousands of years and nearly every
form of human expression. Records exist for everything from stone tablets to
electronic books, wax recordings to MP3s, DVDs and Web sites.
Use: Use to identify and locate resources by library/ institution.
Currency: Updates are on-going.
More: EVMS users can access WorldCat through
FirstSearch on the Library's home page.
WorldScopeGLOBAL
Basic financial information on public companies worldwide.
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