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Best Bets: Databases
AccessAnesthesiology This link opens in a new window
In AccessAnesthesiology, physicians and residents can access a compendium of medical resources, including exclusive procedural videos, Custom Curriculum, and power search functionality, blended seamlessly with tables and charts designed for quick reference. Backed by an esteemed advisory board, AccessAnesthesiology offers multiple tools for resident education and certification/recertification in pain managements, critical care, and perioperative medicine.
LWW Health Library This link opens in a new window
LWW Health Library contains ebooks, procedural videos, images, cases, and quiz banks. WSU library provides access to various LWW Health Libraries including medical education, clinical rotation, medical specialties, pharmacy, etc.
ClinicalKey This link opens in a new window
Full text access to select health science textbooks, journals, procedural videos, clinical practice guidelines, drug information, patient handouts, and CME materials with particular emphasis on medicine and surgery.
CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window
CINAHL Complete is a comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 750 journals indexed in CINAHL. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index with no embargo. CINAHL Complete is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature.
PubMed@Wayne This link opens in a new window
PubMed is a project developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), located at the National Institutes of Health (NIH)--Overview. NLM's search service to access the 9 million citations in MEDLINE and Pre-MEDLINE (with links to participating on-line journals), and other related databases --Home page.
UptoDate Online This link opens in a new window
UpToDate is a comprehensive evidence-based clinical information resource composed of topic reviews which are written by physician authors. The topic reviews go through an extensive peer review process to ensure accuracy and reliability. UpToDate is designed to provide health care providers with concise, practical answers to medical questions at the point of care. Patrons are required to register for a free personal account to use UpToDate. The account will become inactive if it is not used for 30 days.
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Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window
Consists chiefly of 7 databases: Cochrane database of systematic reviews Database of abstracts of reviews of effectiveness (DARE) Cochrane central register of controlled trials (CENTRAL) Cochrane database of methodology reviews Cochrane methodology register Health technology assessment database (HTA) and NHS Economic evaluation database (NHS EED).
DynaMed This link opens in a new window EMBASE This link opens in a new window
EMBASE (Excerpta Medica Database) covers worldwide literature, especially from Europe, in the field of biomedical and health sciences with special emphasis given to drug research, pharmacology, pharmacy, pharmacoeconomics, toxicology, basic biological research, etc.
Scopus This link opens in a new window
Scopus is the world's largest abstracts database.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
This database is an online version of the ISI indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index from 1975-. A search can be limited to one index (i.e. Science Citation Index OR Social Science Citation Index).
ERIC - ProQuest This link opens in a new window
The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature. The ERIC database corresponds to two printed journals: Resources in Education (RIE) and Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). Both journals provide access to some 14,000 documents and over 20,000 journal articles per year.
PubMed Tips
- Always use PubMed@Wayne from Shiffman website to get full text articles.
- If you have PMID ( (e.g. 20730446), search it to find that particular article.
- When no PMID, use Single Citation Matcher to identify a particular article.
- Use Clinical Queries for specific clinical study category and scope, as well as systematic review articles, etc.
- Use Specific Topic Queries to limit your sesarch to specific subjects or journal collections.
- Use MyNCBI account to save search queries, citations, create a bibliography, get monthly table of contents (TOC) alerts, etc.