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CAB Abstracts (complete)

Formerly produced by Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, this database comprises international coverage of veterinary medicine, agriculture, forestry and related bio-science fields, including: human health; human nutrition; animal health; and resource management and conservation. Also rural sociology.

Tips for Developing and Refining a Literature Search Strategy

How to Improve Database Search Results - University of Washington, Seattle

SHERPa : Further Information on Embase

How to Improve Database Search Results - University of Washington, Seattle

Tips for Developing and Refining a Literature Search Strategy

EBM Medline Fact Sheet

Tips to keep in mind when searching Medline.

Searching the Cochrane Library

CAT Crawler - Bioinformatics Institute

This is an online resource contains Critically Appraised Topics (CAT). from a variety of CAT libraries such as the Emergency Department, Manchester Royal Infirmary, UK (BestBETs), Centre for Evidence Based Medicine, Oxford (CATBank), Evidence-Based Journal Club Review, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine (PedsCCM), Department of Pediatric, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor (UMHS), and the Department of Internal Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill - UNC-CH. Search CAT Crawler.

Embase

EMBASE from Elsevier B.V. is a comprehensive pharmacological and biomedical database renowned for extensive indexing of drug information from 4,550 journals published in 70 countries. It is one of the most current biomedical databases available.

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (evidence-based medicine)

A systematic review identifies an intervention for a specific disease or other problem in health care, and determines whether or not this intervention works. To do this authors locate, appraise and synthesize evidence from as many relevant scientific studies as possible. They summarize conclusions about effectiveness, and provide a unique collation of the known evidence on a given topic, so that others can easily review the primary studies for any intervention.

Systematic reviews differ from other types of review in that they adhere to a strict design in order to make them more comprehensive, thus minimizing the chance of bias, and ensuring their reliability. Rather than reflecting the views of the authors, or being based on a partial selection of the literature, (as is the case with many articles and reviews that are not explicitly systematic), they contain all known references to trials on a particular intervention and a comprehensive summary of the available evidence. The reviews are therefore also valuable sources of information for those receiving care, as well as for decision makers and researchers.

ISI Citation Indexes (Web of Science)

The ISI Citation Indexes include the Science Citation Index, the Social Science Citation Index, and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
Search for specific articles by subject, author, journal, and/or author address, as well as for articles that cite a known author or work.

MEDLINE (latest years)

MEDLINE (latest years) 1996-current
The premier source for bibliographic coverage of biomedical literature. MEDLINE encompasses information from Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing Index, as well as other sources of coverage in the areas of allied health, biological and physical sciences, humanities and information science as they relate to medicine and health care, communication disorders, population biology, and reproductive biology. Resources in all languages are represented.

MEDLINE (complete file)

The premier database for bibliographic coverage of biomedical literature. MEDLINE encompasses information from Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing Index, as well as other sources of coverage in the areas of allied health, biological and physical sciences, humanities and information science as they relate to medicine and health care, communication disorders, population biology, and reproductive biology. Resources in all languages are represented.

ISI Citation Indexes (Web of Science)

MEDLINE (complete file)

Primary Care Question Answering Service - NLH (National Library of Health, United Kingdom)

This is a pilot project. Essentially the NLH Question-Answering service seeks to answer questions that health professionals have been unable to answer for themselves.

EBM for UW (University of Washington) Medicine Residents - CATs by Topic

Topics are arranged by general topics such as renal, pulmonary, dermatiology, etc.

BestBETs

BETs (Best Evidence Topics) were 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. BETs take into account the shortcomings of much current evidence, allowing physicians to make the best of what there is.

Biomedical Databases

Databases that contain biomedical literature which can be applied to clinical questions.

Medline (complete file) - The premier database for bibliographic coverage of clinical and biomedical literature.

PubMed Plus - PubMed is the public access version to Medline, the premier database for biomedical literature. PubMedPlus is an enhanced version with links to full-text journals that the Penn Library subscribes to.

TRIP - Turning Research Into Practi

Provides access to evidence-based publications in an easy-to-use format with access to full-text articles, medical images, patient leaflets, guidelines, e-textbooks, and more. You are allowed 3 free searches before you are asked to subscribed to TRIP.

SUMSearch

Developed by the University of Texas Health Science Center, this search engine simultaneously searches multiple web sites and collates the results on one page. The majority of the links provided by SUMSearch come from three Internet sites - the National Library of Medicine (NLM), DARE, and the National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC).

PubMed Plus (Penn Only)

PubMed is the public access version to Medline, the premier database for biomedical literature. PubMedPlus is an enhanced version with links to full-text journals that the Penn Library subscribes to. Once the "Log-in" is completed, any full-text articles to which Penn Libraries subscribe will become available within the PubMed system by clicking on the Penn Text icon. The MEDLINE database is widely recognized as the premier source for bibliographic coverage of biomedical literature. The PubMed version of MEDLINE includes the PREMEDLINE database, which provides very current basic citation information and abstracts before the full records are prepared and added to MEDLINE. New records are added to PREMEDLINE daily. In addition, for participating journals that are indexed selectively for MEDLINE, PubMed includes all articles from that journal, not just those that are included in MEDLINE. PubMed is also the literature component of the Entrez retrieval system for molecular biology information. Holdings: 1950 to the present. Updated daily.