Best Bet Databases in
Health & Medicine
- PubMed
Scholarly journal articles about health and medicine, nursing, audiology, and biology. Includes entire MEDLINE via EBSCO database plus more than 1 million additional life sciences article citations that are not in MEDLINE via EBSCO.
1950s-current.
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PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) premier database of scholarly citations covering nearly 4,500 journals published in the U.S. and more than 70 other countries. New citations are added weekly.
PubMed is more current than MEDLINE via EBSCO and in addition to providing access to MEDLINE, PubMed provides access to:
- The out-of-scope citations (e.g., articles on plate tectonics or astrophysics) from certain MEDLINE journals, primarily general science and chemistry journals, for which the life sciences articles are indexed for MEDLINE
- Citations that precede the date that a journal was selected for MEDLINE indexing
- Some additional life science journals that submit full text to PubMedCentral(c) and receive a qualitative review by NLM.
- CINAHL Plus with Full Text
Scholarly journal articles about nursing and allied health. Includes nursing interventions, management, education, theory, and history. Also includes allied health topics such as physical and occupational therapy.
1981-current.
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CINAHL with Full Text (Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature) indexes over 950 English-language nursing and allied health journals and publications of the American Nurses' Association and the National League for Nursing. Includes full-text for more than 580 journals.
CINAHL also covers relevant materials from biomedicine, management, behavioral sciences, health sciences librarianship, education, and consumer health.
Indexes books, book chapters, pamphlets, audiovisuals, dissertations, educational software, conference proceedings, standards of professional practice, nurse practice acts, critical paths, and research instruments.
Subjects include:
- Aging
- AIDS
- Cancer
- Diseases
- Healthcare
- Medicine
- Nursing
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Public Health
- Rehabilitation
Access restricted to University of Connecticut.
- PsycINFO
Scholarly articles in psychology, plus medicine, psychiatry, education, social work, criminology, social science, business, & organizational behavior.
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1872-present.
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Covers the academic, research and practice literature -- including journal articles, dissertations, book chapters, books, technical reports -- from over 45 countries in more than 30 languages. From the American Psychological Association.
Subjects include:
- Business (advertising & marketing)
- Communication Sciences
- Education
- Medicine
- Psychiatry
- Psychology
- Sociology
Access restricted to University of Connecticut.
- Scopus
Scholarly journal articles with a heavy emphasis on science topics. A great database for high quality scholarly articles on any topic. International scope. Excellent for citation searching.
1996-present for citation searching; 1966 to present for general searching.
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Because UConn holds a license to
Beilstein CrossFire, users can see summaries of compounds and reaction information in Scopus for any article that is also indexed in Beilstein Crossfire.
Using the Papers application from Mekentosj to search Scopus? Papers should prompt you for the Scopus ID (36298) when you do a Scopus search. If it doesn't, or if you need to change it, it go to Preferences, Plugins, Search Engines. Also, Papers can also be configured to use our off campus authentication system (EZproxy), so you might want to add http://ezproxy.lib.uconn.edu/login?url=%@ in the "library proxy" box under "Preferences, Sources".
Access restricted to University of Connecticut.
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The University of Connecticut Libraries purchases access to
Licensed Electronic Resources on behalf of the University of
Connecticut community. License agreements usually stipulate
the following rights and restrictions:
Permitted Uses: Authorized Users may typically display, download,
print, and copy a reasonable portion (generally one or two
articles or one book chapter) of the Licensed Electronic
Resource.
Restrictions: Systematic downloading, distributing, or
retaining substantial portions of information or using
software such as scripts, agents, or robots, to retrieve
information is generally prohibited.