OVID Databases
Ageline is a comprehensive bibliographic database in the field of aging. With references from both academic and general publications, AgeLine contains indexes and abstracts of books, journals, research reports, consumer guides and book chapters.
AMED: Allied & Complementary Medicine is produced by the Health Care Information Service of the British Library and provides citations to articles in the area of complementary or alternative medicine, rehabilitation, speech-language pathology (articles published from 1999 to the present) and palliative care (articles published from 1997 to the present). Contains many journals not covered by other major health databases (e.g. MEDLINE and CINAHL), including many European journals.
EMBASE (Excerpta Medica) is produced by Elsevier Science and is a widely used biomedical and pharmaceutical database because of its international scope. Over 3,500 international journals in the following fields are indexed: drug research, pharmacology, pharmaceutics, toxicology, clinical and experimental human medicine, health policy and management, public health, occupational health, environmental health, drug dependence and abuse, psychiatry, forensic medicine, and biomedical engineering/instrumentation. There is also selective coverage for nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, psychology, and alternative medicine.
ERIC: Indexes journal articles,books,theses,curriculi,conference papers, and standards and guidelines across all educational topics.
Evidence-Based Medicine Reviews (EBMR): suite of six databases includes -
- ACP Journal Club includes commentaries from ACP Journal Club (a publication of the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine), and Evidence-Based Medicine (a joint publication of the ACP and the British Medical Journal Group). The editors of these two journals screen the major clinical journals to identify top quality studies. Enhanced abstracts and commentaries are then written that address the significance of the results of the particular study to clinical practice and save clinicians the time of having to seek out the article and digest its significance themselves.
- Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CCTR) contains citations to the controlled trials identified and cited by Cochrane Review Groups in the course of preparing their systematic reviews. Many of the records contained in this database were identified by hand-searching the literature; as a result, many obscure items can be retrieved from this database, including conference proceedings not normally indexed in mainstream periodical databases (e.g., MEDLINE, EMBASE).
- Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (COCH) is published by the Cochrane Collaboration and contains the full text of this institution's systematic reviews of the effectiveness of healthcare interventions. Cochrane reviewers identify all clinically significant research that addresses the clinical question discussed in the review, and then evaluate and analyze this research. Research is included or excluded based on criteria indicating the rigor of methods used in the original research in order to eliminate bias. Data from included studies is pooled using the technique of meta-analysis to increase the statistical significance of findings from smaller studies. The resulting systematic reviews provide clinicians with comprehensive, rigorous, and up-to-date reviews of research addressing specific clinical questions. Reviews are updated on a regular basis to incorporate any new research conducted since the date the review was published or last updated.
- Cochrane Methodology Register (CMR)
A bibilography consisting of over 9000 references to controlled trials in journal articles,book chapters,conference procedings and reports,and other publications of methodologies used in health studies.The content is steadily expanded through an extensive hand searching program and the development of a series of search strategies in MEDLINE and EMBASE - Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE) is produced by the UK NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination. DARE abstracts provide critical evaluations of systematic reviews published on the topic of the effectiveness of health care interventions. These systematic reviews may have been published as journal articles or may take the form of non-journal publications originating from various health research organizations from around the world. Can be used for answering questions about the effects of health care interventions, as well as for developing clinical guidelines and policy making.
- Health Technology Assessments (CLHTA) produced by the UK's Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD), in collaboration with Sweden's INAHTA Secretariat, HTA brings together details about ongoing studies of the medical, social, ethical and economic implications of healthcare interventions.
- NHS Economic Evaluation Database (CLEED) also produced by the CRD, provides cost-benefit analyses about healthcare intervenions with abstracts of quality assessed economic evaluations. The database aims to assist decision-makers by systematically identifying and describing economic evaluations, appraising their quality and highlighting their relative strengths and weaknesses.
HaPI: Health and Psychosocial Instruments features material on unpublished information-gathering tools for clinicians discussed in journal articles, such as questionnaires, interview schedules, tests, and other scales, coding schemes, and projective techniques. It provides measurement instruments for any medical or medically related condition or treatment outcome and presents tests used in medically related disciplines including psychology, social work, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and speech & hearing therapy.
International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (IPA) provides worldwide coverage of pharmaceutical science and health related literature from 1970 to the present, and is updated monthly. Comprehensive information is included for drug therapy, toxicity, and pharmacy practice as well as legislation, regulation, technology, utilization, bio pharmaceutics, information processing, education, economics, and ethics as related to pharmaceutical science and practice.
Lippincott / Springhouse Nursing Books is an excellent source for comprehensive, authoritative, highly cited nursing content ranging from core nursing knowledge and procedures to specialized subjects.
LWW Total Access Collection is a collection of over 200 journals, from essential core journals to specialized resources in such areas as nursing and bioscience. The collection caters to those institutions with more intensive medical information needs - institutions supporting many clinicians, researchers, students and teachers, all of whom require 24/7 access to a larger collection of journals.
MEDLINE covers international biomedical and health sciences journal literature. The type of information indexed in MEDLINE ranges from the basic biomedical sciences, including anatomy, physiology, and biochemistry, to clinical information outlining the nature and course of disease or injury as well as its treatment. Other aspects of medicine covered by the database include public health, health promotion, bio ethics, medical education, legal aspects of medical practice, and other related topics. It also contains a nursing subset and a dentistry subset, each of which covers the major journals in these areas.
Nursing Collection I includes core journals in the field of nursing.
OVID Premier Journal Collection includes essential, highly cited clinical journals of more than 50% of the journals on the Brandon/Hill Selected List. This collection is a single source for the top journal titles covering major specialties in the medical field.
Social Science Index (Wilson) is a bibliographic database that indexes articles of at least one column in length from English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere. Coverage includes a wide range of interdisciplinary fields covered in a broad array of social sciences journals