Database Descriptions
Access Medicine
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. There is a five concurrent user limit. TUTORIAL
Access Pediatrics
Access Pediatrics from McGraw-Hill is an integrated online resource that provides medical students, surgical residents, and practicing pediatricians with a broad range of content that covers the entire span of pediatric practice, from neonatology through adolescent medicine. Organized around a set of Core Topics developed by an advisory board of renowned pediatricians, Access Pediatrics meets the needs of medical students, pediatric residents, general practitioners, and pediatric specialists.
Access Surgery
Access Surgery 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, Access Surgery 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.
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
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
Cross Search Multiple Databases
Cross Search allows searching across multiple databases using quick sets, categories or specific database selection.
EBSCO
EBSCO Databases include Academic Search Elite, MasterFILE Premier, Consumer Health Complete, MEDLINE and ERIC.
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.
Johns Hopkins ABX Guide
The Johns Hopkins ABX Guide is an evidence-based clinical decision
resource. It is trusted content that is
easily accessed, promptly applied, and frequently updated. The Mobile App download is available with registration.
Journal Citation Reports (Science)
Journal Citation Reports is a part of the Thomson Reuters, ISI Web of Knowledge and offers information on impact factors of scientific journals.
McGraw Hill Ebook First Aid Series
This database has 27 First Aid Test Prep Ebooks from the First Aid Series.
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
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.
OMT Procedure Videos (ACOFP)
OMT Procedure Videos Online is an educational resource that was
developed by the ACOFP's Subcommittee on OMM/OPP Publications &
Educational Resources, based on the ACOFP textbook Somatic Dysfunction
in Osteopathic Family Medicine. 122 Videos are available and you will need to click on the box "Access Video Library" and accept the license agreement to access the videos.
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
Procedures Consult
Elsevier's procedures database delivering multi-media training in the subjects of Emergency Medicine and Family Medicine.
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.
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
Thieme Teaching Assistant Anatomy
Thieme Teaching Assistant Anatomy consists of the images from Gilroy's Atlas of Anatomy featuring 2,200 illustrations and clinical images. To use the images you will need to create your own personal account.
TOXNET
TOXNET is made up of several databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases.
Ulrich's Web
Ulrichsweb is an easy to search source of detailed information on more
than 300,000 periodicals (also called serials) of all types: academic
and scholarly journals, e-journals, peer-reviewed titles, popular
magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and more.
UpToDate (Visual Dx)
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. Visual Dx is integrated with UpToDate. Look for the orange icon for Visual Dx. TUTORIAL
USA.gov
USA.gov is the official gateway to all electronic government information.
USMLEasy
USMLEasy delivers exactly what you need to prepare for the USMLE Step 1, Step 2 CK, and Step 3. You'll find thousands of online questions covering all the disciplines and organ systems covered on the exam — along with powerful customization features that allow you to focus on the topics you need to master and bypass what you already know.
VisualDx
Visual diagnostic decision database with over 18,000 visual images for differential diagnosis at the point of care. Integrates with UpToDate and includes VisualDx Mobile download.