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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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• 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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• Cochrane Library
  The Cochrane Library provides reliable and up-to-date information on the effects of interventions in health care. current.
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  Includes:

  • The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (Cochrane Reviews)
  • Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (Other Reviews)
  • The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (Clinical Trials)
  • The Cochrane Database of Methodology Reviews (Methods Reviews)
  • The Cochrane Methodology Register (Methods Studies)
  • Health Technology Assessment Database (Technology Assessments)
  • NHS Economic Evaluation Database (Economic Evaluations)

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• Drugs & Pharmacology: EMBASE
  EMBASE: Drugs & Pharmacology is now part of SCOPUS. Search SCOPUS to find all content previously included in EMBASE: Drugs & Pharmacology. 1990-current; updated quarterly.
  

  Cancelled Aug 2009

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  EMBASE: Drugs & Pharmacology is now part of SCOPUS. Search SCOPUS to find all content previously included in EMBASE: Drugs & Pharmacology.

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• International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (IPA)
  Material from over 750 pharmaceutical, medical, and health-related journals. International scope. 1970-current.
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  Topics covered include biopharmaceutics, pharmacokinetics, new drug delivery systems, pharmacist liability, legal, political and ethical issues, and more. Over 285,000 records have been indexed. Subjects:

  • Drugs
  • Ethics
  • Government Regulations
  • Health Sciences
  • Healthcare
  • Medicine
  • Microbiology
  • Pharmaceutical
  • Pharmacology
  • Research & Development
  • Science & Technology
  • Side Effects
  • Toxicology

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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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• 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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• Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database
  Over 1,000 reports on herbal and non-herbal natural medicines. Includes scientific and common names of the product, its uses, effectiveness, mechanisms of actions, safety, adverse reactions, and manufacturers. current.
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• Natural Standard (Integrative Medicine)
  Evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies. Contains three sub-databases: Herbs & Supplements, Condition Center, and Alternative Modalities. Each therapy includes scientific data and expert opinions.
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  Validated rating scales are used to evaluate the quality of available evidence. Information is incorporated into comprehensive monographs which are designed to facilitate clinical decision making. All monographs undergo blinded editorial and peer review prior to inclusion.

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• NLM Gateway
  Citations and abstracts to worldwide biomedical literature, including meeting reports, directory of health information organizations, and descriptions of current health research. 1966-current.
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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.
• Reaxys
  Reaxys provides in-depth chemical substance and reaction data particularly useful for compound synthesis.
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  The Reaxys database provides a single platform to search the Beilstein Handbook of Organic Chemistry, Gmelin Handbook of Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry, the US Patent and Trademark Office Database and world and European patents. Reaxys provides in-depth chemical substance and reaction data particularly useful for compound synthesis.

  Reaxys includes both the Beilstein Handbook of Organic Chemistry and the Gmelin Handbook of Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry

  Please note: to register as a user, click on the "register" link in the upper right of the red bar at the top of the initial screen.

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• SciFinder Scholar
  SciFinder Scholar client is no longer available. Please use the web based version .

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  • Chemical Abstracts

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  SciFinder Scholar client is no longer available. Please use the web based version

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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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• 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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• TOXNET (Toxicology Data Network)
  Scientific articles, factual information, and data on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases. 1966-current.
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  Also covers Toxic Release Information (data on the estimated quantities of chemicals released to the environment or transferred off-site for waste treatment, and information related to source reduction and recycling), and Chemical Information (identified by name, structural diagram, or CAS Registry Number).
• 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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