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General

MEDLINE
MEDLINE ®, produced by the National Library of Medicine, provides extensive coverage of the world's biomedical journal literature. MEDLINE covers more than 4000 journal titles and is international in scope. Broad coverage includes basic biomedical research and the clinical sciences since 1966 including nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, allied health, and pre-clinical sciences. MEDLINE also covers life sciences that are vital to biomedical practitioners, researchers, and educators, including some aspects of biology, environmental science, marine biology, plant and animal science as well as biophysics and chemistry. Increased coverage of life sciences began in 2000.
Ovid MEDLINE | PubMed

CINAHL
CINAHL is the major bibliographic database for the English-language journals in nursing and allied health fields. 1200 journals are selectively or comprehensively indexed. Publications of the American Nurses' Association and the National League for Nursing are included as well as books in nursing and allied health fields, which include physical therapy, respiratory therapy, cardiopulmonary technology, medical and laboratory technology, occupational therapy, radiologic technology, social services in health care, emergency services, medical records, health sciences librarianship, medical assisting, the physician's assistant, surgical technology, and health education.
Ovid CINAHL

PsycINFO
The PsycINFO ® database covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas. Coverage is worldwide, and includes references and abstracts to over 1300 journals and dissertations in more than 30 languages, and to book chapters and books in the English language. Over 50,000 references are added annually. Popular literature is excluded.
Ovid PsycINFO

LILACS
Latin American and Caribbean Literature on the Health Sciences is a BIREME System's cooperative database which covers literature related to the health sciences and has been published in countries of the Region since 1982. It contains articles from about 670 of the most well-known journals in the medicine field, reaching approximately more than 150,000 records and other documents, such as: theses, chapters of theses, books, chapters of books, congress and conference proceedings, technical and scientific reports and governmental publications.
LILACS

CATS [critically appraised topics]

ACP Journal Club - CATs
Contains critical appraisals published in the journal ACP Journal Club. Yale print | Yale electronic

Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE)
DARE is a database of high quality systematic reviews of the effectiveness of health care interventions. The NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination at the University of York makes it available for searching via its web site. DARE is also part of Evidence Based Medicine Reviews from Ovid Technologies. Yale electronic

Evidence-based On-Call Database
Critically appraised topics produced by a team from the Centre for Evidence-based Medicine, Oxford with support from the NHS National Electronic Library for Health. Also published in a pocketbook form.

 

Specialty

Centerwatch Clinical Trials Listing Service
"The Information Source for the Clinical Trials Industry" This site contains information about clinical research, including listings of more than 41,000 active industry and government-sponsored clinical trials, as well as new drug therapies in research and those recently approved by the FDA. Our site is designed to be an open resource for patients interested in participating in clinical trials and for research professionals. Better mention why this is here

Cochrane Library

Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effect (DARE)

DynaMed
A medical information database with nearly 1,800 clinical topic summaries. Designed for use at the point of care and updated daily.

Health Services/Technology Assessment Text
Health Services/Technology Assessment Text is a searchable collection of large, full-text clinical practice guidelines, technology assessments and health information.

OTseeker
Occupational Therapy Systematic Evaluation of Evidence (OTseeker) currently comprises abstracts and quality ratings of randomised control trials (RCTs), and abstracts of systematic reviews relevant to occupational therapy.

PEDro: the physiotherapy Evidence Database
PEDro is the Physiotherapy Evidence Database. It has been developed to give rapid access to bibliographic details and abstracts of randomised controlled trials and systematic reviews in physiotherapy. Most trials on the database have been rated for quality to help you quickly discriminate between trials which are likely to be valid and interpretable and those which are not.

Sum Search
SUMSearch allows the clinician to enter a query one time, and then will: select the best Internet sites to search, format the query for each site, execute contingency searches, then return a single document to the clinician. SUMSearch removes the burden to the clinician of remembering details such as which Internet site truncates with the dollar sign and how to execute a limit for the AIM journals if too many articles are found at MEDLINE.

TRIP Database
The TRIP Database searches over 75 sites of high-quality medical information. The TRIP Database gives you direct hyperlinked access to the largest collection of 'evidence-based' material on the web as well as articles from premier on-line journals such as the BMJ, JAMA, NEJM etc. [The TRIP Database has been enhanced to TRIP+ and is no longer free. JG 7/1/03]