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Tutorials
Our featured online tutorial is about PubMed, an essential resource from the National Library of Medicine. To learn more about PubMed, follow this link to the online tutorial. The library is developing additional guides for its resources and for course-related topics. Follow this link for new developments.

Study groups and individuals may request tutorials to learn more about library resources and their use. Tutorials on resources for evidence-based practice will also be announced several times during the year. To schedule a tutorial, please send a request.

Books

Books at the RVU Health Sciences Library
To locate books and ebooks in the collection, search the online public access catalog. The catalog also lists current textbooks and allows users to search selected libraries such as the National Library of Medicine.

Books at Other Libraries
To locate books at other libraries, search WorldCat, which provides a comprehensive union catalog of library holdings throughout the United States and will show the closest libraries that have an item of interest.

Databases

Medline
"A comprehensive source of life sciences and biomedical bibliographic information" (description from website).

DynaMed
"A clinical reference tool created by physicians for physicians and other health care professionals for use primarily at the 'point-of-care'" (description from website).

Cochrane Libraries
"Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials: a bibliographic database (i.e. citation and abstract only) of controlled trials identified by the U.S. Cochrane Center and Cochrane Collaborative Review Groups.
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews: features the full text of regularly updated systematic reviews, maintained by the various Cochrane Collaborative Review Groups.
Cochran Methodology Register: a bibliographic database of articles and books on methods used in controlled trials and in preparing reviews.
Database of Abstracts of Reviews and Effects: DARE contains over 5,000 abstracts of quality assessed systematic reviews on the effects of interventions used in health and social care.
Health Technology Assessments: Web-based resource of full-text documents that provide health information and support health care decision making.
NHS Economic Evaluation: Contains over 7,000 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" (description from websites).

Gale Reference Works: This collection of encyclopedic works from medical publishers such as Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, Gale, and Cambridge provides introductions, definitions, illustrations, bibliographies, and broad coverage of topics. Level of presentation varies from general to professional. The following titles are available online in full-text format:
Cambridge Historical Dictionary of Disease , 2003
Diabetes , 2008
Encyclopedia of Bioethics, 3rd ed., 5v, 2004
Encyclopedia of Cancer , 2nd ed., 4v, 2002
Encyclopedia of Diagnostic Imaging , 2v, 2008
Encyclopedia of Endocrine Diseases , 4v, 2004
Encyclopedia of Gerontology , 2nd ed., 2v, 2007
Encyclopedia of Heart Diseases , 2006
Encyclopedia of Human Nutrition , 2nd ed., 4v, 2005
Encyclopedia of Medical Devices and Instrumentation , 2nd ed., 6v, 2006
Encyclopedia of Pain , 2006
Encyclopedia of Respiratory Medicine , 4v, 2006
Encyclopedic Reference of Genomics and Proteomics in Molecular Medicine , 2006
The Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders , 2nd ed., 2v, 2006
The Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Health , 2nd ed., 2v, 2008
Stroke , 2008
Wiley Encyclopedia of Biomedical Engineering , 6v, 2006
Gale alternative link

MD Consult
"An integrated online service to help physicians find answers to pressing clinical questions and make better treatment decisions" (description from website)

Micromedex
Micromedex from Thomson Reuters is a set of indices with "information about drugs, toxicology, diseases, acute care, and alternative medicine." Includes calculators plus patient education and consumer information (description from website).

Ovid Journals and Books
Ovid is a database of medical literature from over 50 publishers and provides subject access to some of the full-text journals and books held by our library. Coverage of the database overlaps with but differs from Medline and other databases currently in use at the library. For comprehensive searches, consult Ovid, Medline, and similar periodical databases, and the RVU book catalog and A-Z periodical list. Ovid alternative link

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
"A comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods" (description from website).

UpToDate (available from library workstation)
UpToDate offers physician reviewed and synthesized clinical findings and "covers more than 7,400 topics in 13 medical specialties and includes more than 76,000 pages of text, graphics, links to Medline abstracts, more than 254,000 references, and a drug database" (description from website).

Featured Journals

JAOA: Journal of the American Osteopathic Association
"The JAOA's mission is to advance medicine through the scholarly publication of peer-reviewed osteopathic medical research" (description from website).

NEJM: The New England Journal of Medicine
"NEJM is a weekly general medical journal that publishes new medical research findings, review articles, and editorial opinion on a wide variety of topics of importance to biomedical science and clinical practice" (description from website).

The Medical Letter
"The Medical Letter is a nonprofit organization and its newsletters, The Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics and Treatment Guidelines from The Medical Letter, publish critical appraisals of new drugs and comparative reviews of older drugs" (description from website).

Virtual Mentor: AMA Journal of Ethics
Virtual Mentor: American Medical Association Journal of Ethics "Founded in 1999, Virtual Mentor explores the ethical issues and challenges that students, residents, and other physicians are likely to confront in their training and daily practice. For this reason, the journal is a valuable teaching resource for medical educators at all levels as well as for doctors and doctors-to-be. Each monthly issue of VM contains original articles and commentary on a given theme?e.g., access to care; quality-of-life considerations in clinical decision making, public roles of physicians, ethical issues in endocrinology, conflict of values in the clinic" (description from website).

Full Text Journals
For an A-Z list of full-text journals available online, click here. To access a journal, click its title or search by topic in Medline, Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection, or Ovid databases. Some journals must be accessed through a specific database, so always check the A-Z list for full-text availability. To access articles that are indexed but are not currently available online, please contact a librarian.

Public Access Databases

Clinical Trials
"ClinicalTrials.gov is a registry of federally and privately supported clinical trials conducted in the United States and around the world. ClinicalTrials.gov gives you information about a trial's purpose, who may participate, locations, and phone numbers for more details" (description from website).

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)" (description from website).

Entrez
"Entrez is the integrated, text-based search and retrieval system used at NCBI for the major databases, including PubMed, Nucleotide and Protein Sequences, Protein Structures, Complete Genomes, Taxonomy, and others" (description from website).

HighWire
"A division of the Stanford University Libraries, HighWire Press hosts the largest repository of high impact, peer-reviewed content, with 1154 journals and 4,790,353 full text articles from over 140 scholarly publishers" (description from website).

NGC: National Guideline Clearinghouse
"The National Guideline Clearinghouse™ (NGC) is a comprehensive database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related documents. NGC is an initiative of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services" (description from website).

Osteopathic Literature
Links to osteopathic indexes, journals and historical works.

PLoS
"PLoS publishes seven peer-reviewed open-access journals:" PLoS One, PLoS Biology, PLoS Medicine, PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS Genetics, PLoS Pathogens, and PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases (description from website).

PubMed
"MEDLINE is the largest component of PubMed, the freely accessible online database of biomedical journal citations and abstracts created by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM®). Approximately 5,200 journals published in the United States and more than 80 other countries have been selected and are currently indexed for MEDLINE. A distinctive feature of MEDLINE is that the records are indexed with NLM's controlled vocabulary, the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®)" (description from website).

ToxNet
"TOXNET (TOXicology Data NETwork) is a cluster of databases covering toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health and related areas. It is managed by the Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Program (TEHIP) in the Division of Specialized Information Services (SIS) of the National Library of Medicine (NLM)" (description from website).

Scirus
"Scirus is the most comprehensive scientific research tool on the web. With over 450 million scientific items indexed at last count, 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" (description from website).

Image Databases

UMich Anatomy Videos
University of Michigan Medical Gross Anatomy Dissection Videos

WebPath
WebPath "includes over 1900 images along with text, tutorials, laboratory exercises, and examination items for self-assessment that demonstrate gross and microscopic pathologic findings associated with human disease conditions" (description from website).

RVU Lectures