Database Description A-Z

Alt HealthWatch          (view tutorial) Indexes full-text articles for 180 journals, as well as pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts on complementary, holistic, and integrated approaches to health care and wellness.
 

CINAHL/OVID            (view tutorial)

 

Literature in nursing and allied health.
CINAH/EBSCO The CINAHL® database covers the nursing and allied health literature from 1982 to the present.  It indexes 2,593 English language journals in nursing and allied health disciplines.
Clin-eguide

Point-of-care resource for quick answers to clinical questions. Integrated with Medline (1996-present), CINAHL, books, and national and Baystate practice guidelines.

CareNotes CareNotes™ provides your patients with complete, easy-to-understand information about all aspects of their care, medications, and health In English or Spanish
Consumer Health Complete™ Consumer-oriented content to support patients' information needs. Full text of some popular consumer health magazines.
EBM Databases List of evidence-based medicine (EBM) databases.
ERIC Provides free access (1066-present)to more than 1.2 million of journal articles (some full-text) and other education-related materials. ERIC is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education , Institute of Education Sciences (IES)
Health Business      (view tutorial)

Provides journal content detailing aspects of health care administration and other non-clinical aspects of health care institution management.

Health Source - Consumer Edition   (view tutorial)

Provides information oh health topics for the general public. Access to nearly 80 full-text consumer health magazines.

e-Medicine                                          (view demo) eMedicine Clinical Knowledge Base contains articles on 7,000 diseases and disorders. The evidence-based content, updated regularly, provides the latest practice guidelines in 59 medical specialties. eMedicine's professional content undergoes 4 levels of physician peer review. Largest online repository of medical education credits for physicians and nurses.
Medline (OvidSP) OVIDSP search function to Medline database.   More powerful and customizable search capabilities than PubMed, with links to Baystate full-text holdings when accessed from Library website.
MDConsult Especially useful for 56 full-text ebooks (latest editions), and complete full-text of the Clinics of North America journals.  PDFs are available for all articles from 2002-present.
Micromedex

The gold standard for drug information.  Contains drug monographs, evaluations, dosages, interactions, product identification, reproductive risks, toxicity management, calculators, monograms, and extensive references.

PubMed                              (view tutorial)

MEDLINE® is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's® (NLM) premier bibliographic database that contains over 16 million references to scholarly biomedical journal articles from 1950 to the present, updated daily.  Citations are from approximately 5,000 journals in 37 languages, and are linked to free full-text, and/or Baystate full-text holdings when accessed from Library website. “Related articles” feature is especially effective.

SCOPUS                            (view tutorial)

Searches Medline, but use PubMed or OvidSP for better precision.  Best for citation information and tracking, as well as conference reports and papers not indexed in Medline. 33 million records.  Integrated web searching and patent searching by Scirus.
TOXNET Produced by National Library of Medicine, Division of Specialized Information Services,Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Program.  Cluster of searchable databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals and incidents, toxic releases into the environment, and household products.
UpToDate                              (view tutorial) Signed and regularly updated topic reviews of published evidence synthesized by clinical experts. The content is current, peer reviewed, and fully referenced.  Covers both diagnosis and treatment.

 

                                                                                      

 




Last reviewed/updated on February 5, 2008

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