Information Resources for Medicine

Best Resources for Finding Articles

• PubMed - Medline
  • Index to 4,800+ journals in medicine, nursing, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. Most records are from English-language sources or have English abstracts. Produced by the National Library of Medicine.
• CINAHL (EBSCOHost)
  • Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature is the most comprehensive index available for nursing and related fields. 1982 - present. Pre-CINAHL is a companion database that provides current awareness of new journal articles. (To search multiple EBSCOhost databases, click the "Select Databases" tab.)
• Alt-HealthWatch (EBSCOhost)
  • Index to alternative and complimentary health therapies, including full text from journals, newsletters, newspapers and pamphlets. 1978- present. (To search multiple EBSCOhost databases, click the "Select Databases" tab.).
• Health Reference Center Academic
  • Citations, abstracts, or full-text access to 700+ general interest health and fitness magazines, medical and professional periodicals, reference books, and pamphlets. Designed for nursing and allied health students, as well as consumer health researchers. 1980- present.
• Biosis Previews
  • Online version of Biological Abstracts® and Biological Abstracts/RRM® (Reports, Reviews, and Meetings). References and abstracts of the literature from all areas of biology, including biochemical, cellular, molecular, ecological and environmental. 1969 - present.
• PsycINFO (EBSCOHost)
  • The online version of Psychological Abstracts, indexing journal articles, book chapters, and dissertations. 1887- present. (To search multiple EBSCOhost databases, click the "Select Databases" tab.)
• PsycCRITIQUES
  • 36,000 full-text reviews of current scholarly and professional books in psychology, as well as critiques of popular films and trade books from a psychological perspective. Produced by the American Psychological Association. 1956- present.

Additional Resources for Finding Articles & Other Information

• SciFinder Scholar (Full Access)
  • Chemical Abstracts and Registry File online from 1907. The premier database for searching chemicals and chemistry-related issues. (UNR NetID required)
• Science Citation Index
  • Part of Web of Science. Search by subject, author, or cited reference. On the search screen, clear the checkboxes for Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index if you do not want to search all 3 databases simultaneously (the default). An excellent current awareness and bibliography-building tool. 5,700 journals, from 1965- present
    Save citations to EndNote Web — recorded training sessions are available.
• Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)
  • Indexes 7,800+ scholarly journals, with full text for 4,000 titles. Covers social sciences, humanities, education, computer science and engineering, general science, medicine, ethnic studies, and more. 1965- present for selected titles. (To search multiple EBSCOhost databases, click the "Select Databases" tab.)
• Dissertations & Theses: Full Text (formerly Dissertation Abstracts)
  • ProQuest Dissertations and Theses — Full text is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. It includes 2.4 million dissertation and theses citations from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with 1 million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works.
• WorldCat
  • A catalog of library materials in all formats from libraries all over the United States and the world. Contains more than 61 million items.