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AccessMedicine

Medical reference books including Harrison's Online; Goodman & Gilman's Pharmacology, 11e; Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment; and Hurst's The Heart.
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BIOSIS Previews

Scholarly articles in biology. Essential source for research in biology. 1969-current.
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Excellent search for biology-related research. The premier database of world biology literature, and a primary source for any biology-related research, BIOSIS Previews contains the references to journal literature from Biological Abstracts, the references to meetings, reports, review articles, books and monographs from Biological Abstracts/RRM, as well as some unique references.
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CAB Direct
Covers agriculture. Includes animal, dairy & veterinary sciences; entomology; plant sciences; forestry; aquaculture & fisheries; farming; agricultural economics; food & human nutrition; earth & environmental sciences. 1973-current.
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Coverage is international, including literature from over 125 countries. Indexes over 9,000 journals and 2,500 books are every year. Updated weekly. The Helminthology database is part of CAB Direct's data. Subject coverage:
- Plant Science (including horticulture)
- Animal Science (including nutrition & zoology)
- Pathogen, pest, parasite and weed management
- Human health and hygiene (including human nutrition)
- Natural resources and ecology
- Forestry, forest products and agroforestry
- Soil Science
- Rural Development, Tourism and Economics
- Food science and food products
- Biotechnology
- Agricultural Engineering
- Veterinary Medicine
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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
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Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Evidence for and against the effectiveness and appropriateness of treatments (medications, surgery, rehabilitation, education, etc). current.
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A "systematic review" identifies an intervention for a specific disease or other problem in health care, and determines whether or not this intervention works. They summarize conclusions about effectiveness, and provide a unique collation of the known evidence on a given topic.
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.
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Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment

Concise, authoritative answers on every aspect of inpatient and outpatient care 2010 edition.
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Emphasizes the practical features of clinical diagnosis and patient management in all fields of internal medicine and in specialties of interest to primary care practitioners and subspecialists who provide generalist care.
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HAPI (Health & Psychosocial Instruments)

Citations to measurement instruments such as questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/ manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, and tests. 1985-current.
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Health and Psychosocial Instruments provides ready access to information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/ manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests) in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science.
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Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine
Full-text of the Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine textbook. Most current edition.

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You can search several online products from this AccessMedicine site, but Harrison's is the only one for which UConn users can view the results.
Some of the features in Harrison's Online:
- new and revised content from the Harrison's editors and contributors, updated regularly
- late-breaking clinical trial data
- updated therapy
- new references links to related web sites
- added illustrations
- Podcasts
- self-assessment questions
The subscription to Harrison's Online is made available to the University of Connecticut through the Lyman Maynard Stowe Library of the UConn Health Center.
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Health & Wellness Resource Center
Contains scholarly and popular articles on all aspects of medicine, health, and alternative health. Also includes health-related videos, medical & alternative health encyclopedias, health assessment tools, and a drug and herb finder. some 1980s to current.
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Over 400 full-text medical journals and fitness magazines. Designed for nursing and allied health students, as well as consumer health researchers. In addition to magazines and journals, provides health-related pamphlets, and many encyclopedias, including:
Traditional medicine:
- Advice for the Patient: Drug Information in Lay Language
- The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
- Medical and Health Information Directory
- Mosby's Medical, Nursing, & Allied Health Dictionary
- PDR Family Guide to Nutrition and Health
- PDR Family Guide to Prescription Drugs
- PDR Family Guide to Over-the-Counter Drugs
- USP DI-Volume II
Alternative medicine
- PDR Family Guide to Natural Medicines and Healing Therapies
- PDR for Herbal Medicines
- Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Health
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MDConsult
Full-text of over 35 medical textbooks, full-text articles from scholarly journals, clinical practice guidelines, patient education handouts, and prescribing information on over 30,000 medications. current.

Free registration required for access.
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Subject coverage includes:
- Allergy, Asthma & Immunology
- Alternative Medicine
- Anesthesiology & Pain Management
- Cardiology
- Dermatology
- Emergency Medicine
- Endocrinology & Metabolism
- Family Medicine
- Gastroenterology
- Geriatric Medicine
- Hematology
- Infectious Disease
- Internal Medicine
- Nephrology
- Neurology
- Obstetrics & Gynecology
- Oncology
- Ophthalmology
- Orthopedic Surgery
- Pathology
- Pediatrics
- Psychiatry
- Pulmonary Medicine
- Rheumatology
- Surgery, General
- Urology
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Medline via Ovid

Scholarly journal articles about health and medicine, nursing, audiology, and biology. Search Medline with ERIC, PsycINFO, and Academic Search Premier through EBSCO.
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Medline covers nearly 4,500 journals published in the U.S. and more than 70 other countries. New citations are added weekly.
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MICROMEDEX Healthcare Series
Provides drug and dosage information, toxicologic substances and patient information databases, and other information and data to support clinical care decisions. Current.
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Databases included:
- Alternative Medicine
- DISEASEDEX™
- DRUGDEX® System
- MARTINDALE: The Complete Drug Reference
- Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)
- Physicians' Desk Reference PDR®
- POISINDEX® System
- REPRORISK® System
- TOMES® System
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PsycINFO
Scholarly articles in psychology, plus medicine, psychiatry, education, social work, criminology, social science, business, & organizational behavior. Search Tips! 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
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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.
Also Known As
- Medline via PubMed
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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.
R2Library
Electronic books in medicine, nursing, and allied health. Create a user name & password to access the R2 Library from off-campus. books published 2004-current.
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Titles include:
- Basic and Clinical Neurocardiology
- Current Consult. Cardiology
- DeGowin's Diagnostic Examination
- Essentials of Clinical Geriatrics
- Functional Neuroanatomy
- Grant Application Writer's Handbook
- Medical Interview
- Principles and Practice of Pain Medicine
Note: Remote access to the R2 Library requires a free personal account by creating an individual user name and password.
One user per book at a time.
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Rehabilitation and Physical Medicine: EMBASE

EMBASE: Rehabilitation and Physical Medicine is now part of SCOPUS. Search SCOPUS to find all content previously included in EMBASE: Rehabilitation and Physical Medicine. Most recent 10 years.
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EMBASE: Rehabilitation and Physical Medicine is now part of SCOPUS. Search SCOPUS to find all content previously included in EMBASE: Rehabilitation and Physical Medicine.
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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".
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Sociological Abstracts
Scholarly journal articles about sociology and other social and behavioral sciences. Includes culture & social structure; economic development; evaluation research; family & social welfare; management and complex organizations; policy planning. 1963-present.
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Some cited references included. Major areas of coverage include:
- Culture and social structure
- Demography and human biology
- Economic development
- Environmental interactions
- Evaluation research
- Family and social welfare
- Health and medicine and law
- History and theory of sociology
- Management and complex organizations
- Mass phenomena and political interactions
- Methodology and research technology
- Policy, planning, forecast and speculation
- Radical sociology
- Religion and science
- Rural and urban sociology
- Social development
- Social differentiation
- Social psychology and group interaction
- Sociology of the arts, business, education
- Studies in violence and power
- Substance abuse and addiction
- Welfare services
- Women's studies
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SPORTDiscus
Scholarly journal articles about sport, fitness, and physical education topics including both practical and research literature. Covers sports medicine, exercise psychology, biomechanics, psychology, training, coaching, physical education and fitness. 1975-present.
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Further coverage includes social and psychological aspects of sport and leisure, including play, games and dance. International coverage comes from:
- Olympic Museum Database: Contains more than 11,000 references to books, reports and other materials on sport and Olympic games held in the Olympic Museum collection in Switzerland.
- ATLANTES: A Spanish-language sport database published in Spain with more than 7,000 citations dating from 1980 through 1996.
- HERACLES: The largest French-language sport database covering sport, physical education and fitness with over 71,000 records dating from 1975-1997.
Subjects include:
- Athletics
- Health Sciences
- Sports
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Stat!Ref Electronic Medical Library

Medical and drug information designed exclusively for physicians. Search more than 31 medical texts from McGraw Hill, Mosby, Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins and more. current.

Click "I accept" at the End User License page to access Stat!Ref.
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Note: for access to STEDMAN'S MEDICAL DICTIONARY select the Stedman's Dictionary link from the STAT!Ref header at the top of the search page.
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Web of Science
Scholarly journal articles in the sciences, social sciences, arts & humanities. A great database for high quality scholarly articles on any topic. Excellent for citation searching. 1994- present.
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Science Citation Index

Subjects include:
- Agriculture
- Astronomy
- Biochemistry
- Biology
- Biotechnology
- Chemistry
- Computer Science
- Materials Science
- Mathematics
- Medicine
- Neuroscience
- Oncology
- Patents, when a patent is part of the record
- Pediatrics
- Pharmacology
- Physics
- Plant Sciences
- Psychiatry
- Veterinary Science & Zoology
Social Sciences Citation Index
Subjects include:
- Anthropology
- History
- Information Science & Library Science
- Law
- Linguistics
- Philosophy
- Political Science & Industrial Relations
- Psychiatry & Psychology
- Public Health
- Social Work & Sociology
- Substance Abuse
- Urban Studies
- Women's Studies
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Subjects include:
- Art & Architecture
- Archaeology
- Asian Studies
- Classics
- Dance
- Folklore
- History
- Language & Linguistics
- Literature & Literary Reviews
- Music
- Philosophy
- Poetry
- Radio, Television, & Film
- Religion
- Theater
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