Database Descriptions

AccessMedicine/USMLEasy
McGraw-Hill's Access Medicine is a collection of electronic medical reference resources. It includes the full text and illustrations of Harrison's, the Lange Educational Library, Hurst's the Heart, Goodman & Gilman's Pharmacology, and much more. USMLEasy Lite version has self-assessment questions and answers to help prepare for the USMLE Step 1, Step 2 CK, and Step 3 Exams. There is a five concurrent user limit. TUTORIAL

AccessSurgery
AccessSurgery is an integrated online resource that provides medical students and practicing surgeons with quick answers to surgical inquiries from trusted sources. In addition to providing unparalleled integrated content, AccessSurgery offers a range of special features designed to support surgical practice such as: surgical videos, differential diagnosis, cancer staging tables, etc. There is a five concurrent user limit. TUTORIAL

BioMed Central
This resource has over 206 peer-reviewed, open access journals covering all areas of Biology and Medicine.

Canary Database
The Canary Database contains studies in the biomedical literature that explore the use of wildlife, domestic, and companion animals as "sentinels" for the effects of chemical, biological, and physical hazards in the environment that may be a risk to human health.

CDC
The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) website is sponsored by the Department of Health and Human Services and offers information on communicable diseases, health topics, and emergency preparedness.

Clinical Pharmacology - PIER
Clinical Pharmacology is a comprehensive drug database that has U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products, and new and investigational drugs. TUTORIAL

PIER (Physicians’ Information and Education Resource) from the American College of Physicians has been integrated with Clinical Pharmacology and relays medical information from diagnosis through management. It is designed to mirror the way healthcare professionals think. TUTORIAL

Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
The Encyclopedia of Life Sciences is a database covering the subjects of: Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, Ecology, Evolution and Diversity of Life, Functional and Comparative Morphology, Genetics and Disease, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Immunology, Microbiology, Neuroscience, Plant Science, Science and Society, Structural Biology, and Virology.

ERIC
ERIC provides free access to more than 1.2 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials and, if available, includes links to full text. ERIC is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences (IES). TUTORIAL

Gale Databases
Gale Cengage Learning databases offered through MORENet

Google Scholar
Google Scholar is a search engine which allows users to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts, and technical reports from all broad areas of research.

Human Anatomy
Human Anatomy is an interactive cadaveric dissection tutorial. Designed to be used as a comprehensive supplement to the gross lab, this program takes the student step-by-step through dissection procedures using the world's largest collection of cadaveric photographs, hundreds of hand-drawn illustrations, and photos from models and skeletons.

MD Consult/First Consult
MD Consult/First Consult provides online access to Elsevier's clinical information database and is continuously updated with evidence-based support for patient education, diagnosis, and management. It gives access to full text reference books and journals, current events in medicine and searches First Consult as the clinical information tool for primary health care providers. TUTORIAL

MedCases
MedCases is an interactive web-based program with simulated patient encounters and clinical cases designed to assist in student, resident, and intern education. You will need to register the first time you use MedCases by entering the Access Code and choosing a username and password. Contact the Circulation Desk at the Library (816) 283-2290 for the Access Code. TUTORIAL

Medical Letter
The Medical Letter summarizes vital drug facts, focusing on elements such as mechanism of action, pharmacology, clinical studies, adverse effects, drug interactions, dosing, and product pricing. Articles are searchable from 1988 to the present, and it is updated biweekly. This resource also includes access to Treatment Guidelines, Adverse Drug Interactions Program, Drugs of Choice, and Handbook of Antimicrobial Therapy.

MedlinePlus (Consumer)
MedlinePlus brings together information from the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), other government agencies, and health-related organizations.

Natural Standard
An international research collaboration that aggregates and synthesizes data on complementary and alternative therapies. Clinical decision support for dietary supplements, herbs, vitamins, minerals, non-prescription drugs, functional foods, diets, complementary practices (modalities), exercises, and medical conditions with an integrative approach to healthcare.

NewsBank
The electronic newspaper editions of the Kansas City Star (1991-current), St. Louis Post Dispatch (1988-current), Springfield News Leader (1999-current), Chicago Tribune (1985-current), Wichita Eagle (1984-current), Washington Post (1977-current), Los Angeles Times (1985-current), Des Moines Register (1999-current), Louisville Courier Journal (1999-current), and Tulsa World (1989-current) are available. Paid ads are excluded.

OSTMED.DR®
The Osteopathic Literature Database is a bibliographic index sponsored by the American Osteopathic Association and the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine. It is hosted by the Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine.

OVID (MEDLINE)
Resources searched by OVID are the 1,200+ journals with abstracts and TOCs available in Journals@OVID Full Text, MEDLINE, and Evidence-Based Medicine Reviews (ACP Journal Club, Cochrane, DARE, and CCTR). There is a ten concurrent user limit to access OVID, and a one concurrent user limit on each Library subscribed journal title. TUTORIAL

PubMed (MEDLINE)
PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's database that provides access to over 18 million medical citations. PubMed is free to anyone with Internet access and is updated weekly. TUTORIAL

ScienceDirect
The Science Direct website is a great place to go for table of content and abstract information from Elsevier journals.

Scirus
Scientific research took with over 370 million scientific items indexed. It allows researchers to search for not only journal content but also scientists' homepages, courseware, pre-print server material, patents and institutional repository and website information.

SPORTDiscus
Provided by the Sport Information Resource Centre, SPORTDiscus offers comprehensive, bibliographic coverage of sport, fitness, and related disciplines. This database contains well over 1,200,000 records with journal and monograph coverage going back to 1800; over 20,000 dissertations and theses, and reference to articles in 60 different languages. Access is through EBSCOHost and there is a 1 concurrent user limit..

SpringerImages
SpringerImages is a growing collection of scientific images that spans the scientific, technical and medical fields, including high-quality clinical images from Images.MD. The continually updated collection – currently over 1.5 million images – gathers photos, graphs, histograms, figures, and tables, and is available via a searchable online database. TUTORIAL

TOXNET
TOXNET is made up of several databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases.

UpToDate
UpToDate is a clinical information resource. It is designed to get physicians the concise, practical answers they need when they need them the most, at the point of care. TUTORIAL

USA.gov
USA.gov is the official gateway to all electronic government information.