Guides: Health & Life Science Databases: Key List of Databases

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PubMed
NLM's public access version to Medline, the premier database for biomedical literature.
MEDLINE (complete file)
Premier database for bibliographic coverage of biomedical literature. Ovid Interface
EMBASE
Covers biomedical literature. Includes coverage of over 1,800 biomedical titles not offered by Medline/PubMed.
Scopus
Indexes most peer reviewed journals in science, technology, and medicine, and many in the social sciences, arts, and humanities. Scopus also includes a number of trade publications and conference papers, and can perform author and affiliation searching.
Web of Science
Indexes journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Allows for cited reference searching. Includes 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.

Key Hlth & Life Sci Databases

AccessAnesthesiology
Online compendium of medical resources, including procedural videos, Custom Curriculum, search functionality, and quick reference tables and charts which offers tools for resident education and certification/recertification in pain management, critical care, and perioperative medicine
AccessAPN
E-textbooks supporting advanced practice curricula, including Johns Hopkins EBP Practice, AACN Essentials of Critical Care Nursing, Saba's Essentials of Nursing Informatics, and others.
AccessMedicine
Includes access to Harrison's Online, Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment, other core medical texts, Lange clinical review library, USMLE review, drug information, patient education, and many more resources.
AccessSurgery
Includes access to surgical textbooks including Schwartz’s Principles of Surgery and Zollinger’s Atlas of Surgical Operations. Also access to instructional videos, high quality full-color images, interactive board review, and clerkship specific resources.

Acland's Video Atlas of Human Anatomy
Over 300 narrated videos covering human anatomy including upper extremity, lower extremity, trunk, head & neck and internal organs.
Ageline
Aging and middle age from an interdisciplinary perspective. Topics include: psychology, economics, sociology, gerontology, and health.
AGRICOLA
Covers agriculture, agronomy, animal science, breeding, dairy science, farm management, food and nutrition, and zoology.
AGRICOLA - free
Covers agriculture, agronomy, animal science, breeding, dairy science, farm management, food and nutrition, and zoology.
Agricultural & Environmental Science Database
Principal bibliographic abstracting service for the scholarly, professional, and policy literatures on the environment.
AMED (Allied and Complementary Medicine) Database
Includes complementary ("alternative") medicine (CAM) and palliative care.

Bates’ visual guide to physical examination
Combines the Bates’ Physical Examination Videos with the OSCE Clinical Skills Videos for a complete assessment learning solution. The site features more than 8 hours of video content.

BCC Research
Comprehensive market research reports in the areas of Biotechnology, Energy and Resources, Healthcare and Pharmaceuticals.

Best Bets for Vet
Provides reviews of current evidence on clinical topics by searching CAB Abstracts and MEDLINE and summarizing the evidence. The reviews are designed to be a quick tool to incorporate evidence into practice, and are not a fully comprehensive review of all available evidence.
BioCyc
BioCyc is a web portal that provides information on genomes and metabolic pathways for thousands of organisms, it also includes tools for exploring them.
BoardVitals APN
Includes sample tests for Psych/Mental Health, Adult gero acute and primary, and FNP advanced practice certification
BoardVitals USMLE
BoardVitals offers over 3,800 board review questions for USMLE Steps 1, 2, and 3, plus an additional 5,500 Shelf Exam questions for clerkships.
British Nursing Index
Indexes the most popular English language nursing journals published primarily in the UK.

CAB Abstracts
International coverage of veterinary medicine, agriculture, forestry and related bio-science fields.
CAB Abstracts (complete)
International coverage of veterinary medicine, agriculture, forestry and related bio-science fields.
Cancer Mondial (World Cancer Statistics)
Access to information on the occurrence of cancer world-wide held by the Unit of Descriptive Epidemiology at the International Agency for Research on Cancer.
CDC Wonder - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Database of reports, guidelines, and numeric public health data by mortality, natality, disease and demographic groups.
CINAHL/ Nursing
Authoritative coverage of nursing and allied health literature.
ClinicalKey
A clinical search engine. Searches clinically related material produced by Elseiver. Replaces MDConsult. Access includes full text textbooks, Clinics of North America, full text journals, practice guidelines, drug information and patient education.

Cochrane Interactive Learning
Aimed primarily for authors of systematic reviews following Cochrane methodology. It is useful for both introductory-level learners and more experienced learners who want to refresh and update their knowledge.

Cochrane Library
Regularly updated collection of evidence-based medicine databases.
CogNet
Repository for current and topical electronic resources in cognitive science and its six core areas: philosophy of mind, computational intelligence, cognitive psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, and cognitive anthropology.

Complete Anatomy
This interactive anatomy education platform brings together human models, content, and cutting edge technology. Easily navigate the model, use the dissecting tools, and then jump into AI mode. Map the origin/insertion points of muscles or trace the origin path of a nerve. Explore over 1000 detailed videos.

Consultant - Vet Diagnostic Support
Veterinary diagnostic support system used to suggest possible diagnoses or causes for clinical signs and symptoms and provides a brief synopsis of the diagnosis/cause.

Covidence
Covidence is a easy-to-use support tool that can guide you through the Systematic Review process. Consider using for any type of lit review project.
Dissertations
Access two Proquest Databases: “Dissertations & Theses@UnivOfPenn” and “ProQuest Dissertations & Global”

DynaMed
Clinical reference tool created for use primarily at the point-of-care, with clinically-organized summaries for more than 3,000 topics.
Clinical reference tool created for use primarily at the point-of-care, with clinically-organized summaries for more than 3,000 topics.

ECRI Guidelines Trust
ECRI Guidelines Trust is a publicly accessible database of clinical practice guidelines. You must create a personal account before using the database.

EMBASE
Covers biomedical literature. Includes coverage of over 1,800 biomedical titles not offered by Medline/PubMed

Emcare
Complement and extend your CINAHL search with additional results from the nursing and allied health literature.

Evidence-Based Health Database Collection
The Evidence-Based Health Collection an evidence-based resource meant to provide clinicians, students and researchers access to the scientific information to guide clinical decisions and patient care. It indexed material from KSR Evidence, ECRI Guidelines Trust, Lippincott Nursing Solutions Guidelines and the Family Physicians Inquiries Network (FPIN).

GlobalData Medical (aka Medical eTrack)
Focused on the medical device and medical equipment industries, Medical eTrack provides information about companies, product pipelines, clinical trials, deals and procedure information.
GIDEON: global infectious disease & epidemiology network

Global Health
Content covers: public health, tropical and communicable diseases, nutrition, helminthology, entomology and mycology.

Global Index Medicus
Provides worldwide access to biomedical and public health literature produced by and within low-middle income countries.

HEAL (Health Education Assets Library)
Digital repository that allows medical educators to discover, download, and re-use over 22,000 medical education resources
Health and Psychosocial Instruments
Access to information on measurement instruments in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science.
Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project
Aggregate national statistics and trends and selected state statistics about hospital stays, using data from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample, the Kids' Inpatient Database, and the State Inpatient Databases for States that participate.
HealthSTAR/OVID Healthstar
Indexes published literature on health services, technology, administration, and research. Focused on both the clinical and non-clinical aspects of health care delivery.

ISI Journal Citation Reports (JCR)
Journal comparison by accumulating and tabulating citation and article counts. Includes Impact Factor, Immediacy Index, Cited Half-Life, Citing Half-Life, etc.

JAMAevidence
Helps identify the best available evidence by providing guides to the systematic consideration of the validity, importance, and applicability of claims about the assessment of health problems and the outcomes of health care.

JBI Evidence-Based Practice
Search evidence-based best practices, evidence summaries and guidelines reviewed and appraised by JBI. 3,000+ records on a variety of healthcare topics.

Lexi-Comp Online for Dentistry
Provides access to Lexi-Comp's drug information and drug interaction analysis. Dental-specific pharmacology information on over 8,000 prescription drugs, OTCs and natural products.

LWW Health Library Collections
Contains full text access to selected biomedical and basic science books and multimedia assets.

MEDLINE (complete file)
Premier database for bibliographic coverage of biomedical literature. Ovid Interface
MEDLINE In-Process and Other Non-Indexed Citations
NLM's in-process database for MEDLINE. New records are added daily (OVID Interface)
MedlinePlus
Consumer health resources

MedOne Neurosurgery
Online resource providing access to Thieme's entire neurosurgery collection.
MedOne Plastic Surgery
A fully searchable database of ebooks, teaching videos, step-by-step details for reconstructive and aesthetic procedures.

Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print
Descriptive information and reviews of English-language test instruments. Selected subject areas include achievement, behavior assessment, development, education, intelligence and scholastic aptitude, neuropsychology, personality, reading, science, and sensory motor skills.

Merck Index Online
The Merck Index Online is an encyclopedia of chemical substances, including human and veterinary drugs, biologicals and natural products. It contains more than 10,000 monographs. Compounds are selected on the basis of present or historic importance and interest.
Merck Manual
Contains symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment in all fields of medicine.

Micromedex
Suite of databases providing fulltext drug and substance data.

MIDIRS: Maternity and Infant Care Database
Articles and grey literature on pregnancy, childbirth, peri- and postnatal care, maternity services, and the first year of infant development.

NCBI - National Center for Biotechnology
National resource for molecular biology information. Use portal to search all the databases maintained by NCBI. GenBank, Protein, Structure, OMIM, Nucleotide, Genome, PopSet, and Taxonomy.
NIH RePORTER
NIH Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tool Expenditures and Results
OVID Multi-Database Searching
Searches multiple databases simultaneously using OVID Interface. Deduping available.
Primatelit Database
Bibliographic access to the scientific literature on nonhuman primates.
Proquest Dissertations and Theses Fulltext (formerly Dissertation Abstracts)
Indexing (since 1861) and abstracting (since 1980) for doctoral-level dissertations completed at North American universities. Page images or fulltext of all available dissertations - including Penn dissertations - from 1997 to present, with some earlier dissertations. Dissertations from selected European universities are also listed. Selected master's theses are included since 1988.

Psychotherapy.net
Streaming Service accessing training video in the fields of Psychotherapy, Counseling and Social Work.

APA PsycInfo
Indexes literature in psychology and related fields.

APA PsycExtra
Published by the American Psychological Association, is the premier resource for information and data for cutting-edge research and practice in the behavioral and social sciences and an extensive archive of gray literature documenting psychology's development.

PubsHub Journals & Congresses
PsychiatryOnline
Online access to DSM-IV-TR, as well as American Psychiatric Publishing textbooks, journals, and the DSM archives. Includes:
DSM Library
- DSM-IV-TRB.
- DSM-IV-TRB. Handbook of Differential Diagnosis
- DSM-IV-TRB. Casebook and its Treatment Companion complete DSM archives (I-IV)
American Psychiatric Association Practice Guidelines
Textbooks:
- The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry
- What Your Patients Need to Know About Psychiatric Medications
- Essentials of Clinical Psychopharmacology
- Manual of Clinical Psychopharmacology
- Gabbard's Treatments of Psychiatric Disorders
- The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Substance Abuse Treatment
Journals (current content):
- American Journal of Psychiatry
- Psychiatric Services
- Academic Psychiatry
- Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
- Psychosomatics
- Psychiatric News

PsycTests
A repository for the full text of psychological tests and measures as well as a rich source of structured information about the tests. A wide variety of test types are included in PsycTESTS, including achievement and aptitude tests, intelligence tests, tests of cognitive functioning, occupational tests, personality tests, and more.
PsycTherapy
A database of streaming psychotherapy demonstration videos featuring some of the most renowned therapists in North America working with participants on a host of therapeutic topics.

PubMed Central
Free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature
PubMed
NLM's public access version to Medline, the premier database for biomedical literature.
Reaxys
Web-based interface to the Beilstein organic and Gmelin inorganic data, as well as the Elsevier Patent Chemistry Database

RevMan (Cochrane ReviewManager Web)
A web-based systematic-review production software. It is required for anyone doing a Cochrane systematic review and is now available for non-Cochrane systematic reviews “to support evidence synthesis development and evidence-based medical education. RevMan Web facilitates the creation of meta-analyses, forest plots, risk-of-bias tables, and other systematic review elements. It is also widely used in learning or training about systematic review production.” Users can access and work on systematic reviews together anywhere.
Royal College of Physicians: History of Medicine from Folklore to Modern Public Health Policy
Primary source digitized collection covering the history of medicine, medical humanities, medicine and culture, religion, and government, the establishment of public health systems, and the policies governing medical education and practice from 1205 to 1980.
Safety Lit
Citations to journal articles and gray literature on injury, violence, and self-harm, from a multidisciplinary perspective
ScienceDirect Ebooks
Full text ebooks from leading life- and health-sciences publishers. Individual chapters are available for PDF download.

Scopus
Indexes peer reviewed journals in science, technology, and medicine.

Social Work Reference Center
Social Work Reference Center covers a wide array of topics such as adolescent health, aging, end-of-life care, clinical social work and diversity.

Sociological Abstracts
Covers sociology, case work, demographics, policy studies, political science, family studies, feminist studies, and social security programs.

SPORTDiscus with Full Text
SPORTDiscus is the leading bibliographic database for sports and sports medicine research. It includes records from leading sports medicine journals, books, dissertations and more.
Springer Nature | Experiments
Database of reproducible laboratory protocols in the Life and Biomedical Sciences. Includes Methods in Molecular Biology, Nature Protocols and other Springer Nature protocol resources

Toxnet
Collection of government databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals and related areas.

Trip
A clinical search engine designed to find and use high-quality research evidence to support practice and/or care. Search results contain evidence-based synopses, systematic reviews, guidelines, core primary research and more.
U.S. Pharmacopeia National Formulary
Source for FDA enforceable quality standards for drugs, dietary supplements, excipients, procedures for tests, assays, analytical methods, and more.

Ucentral / Unbound Medicine
Portal to medical information including Medline, journal table of contents, and Johns Hopkins ABX Guide.
UpToDate
UpToDate is a practical clinical reference designed to provide instant access to the information you need. It is comprised of thousands of original topic reviews written by a recognized faculty of experts who each address a specific clinical issue and provide detailed recommendations.

Visible Body
3D models of anatomical structures and systems, illustrations, cadaver images paired with CTI or MRI scans, definitions, pronunciations, learning presentations that use this visual content, and more.
VetSRev
A database of citations for systematic reviews produced by the Centre for Evidence-based Veterinary Medicine (CEVM) at the University of Nottingham.
VisualDX
A diagnostic clinical decision support system designed to enhance diagnostic accuracy, aid therapeutic decisions, and improve patient safety. Spanning over 3,000 diseases and including 40,000+ images across all skin types, ages, and variations of disease presentation

Web of Science
Indexes journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Allows for cited reference searching.
WILDPro
Provides information on the natural history, health and management of captive and free-ranging wild animals.

Zoological Record
"The world’s oldest continuing database of animal biology. It is considered the world’s leading taxonomic reference, and with coverage back to 1864, has long acted as the world’s unofficial register of animal names. The broad scope of coverage ranges from biodiversity and the environment to taxonomy and veterinary sciences."