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AccessMedicine
An online resource that provides complete references and services for physicians, students, and health professionals who need immediate access to authoritative and current medical data. It is updated daily. Full-text of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, Lange's Basic Sciences and Clinical Sciences Series, and other authoritative medical texts are included within this resource.
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ACP Journal Club
A website containing content from over 100 clinical journals, selected on the basis of scientific merit and assessment of relevance to evidence-based medical practice. The articles are summarized in value-added abstracts and commented on by clinical experts.
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Antpac Catalog
The online library catalog for all UC Irvine libraries - Langson, Science, Grunigen Medical Library. This catalog provides location and status information for books, journals, and other library resources.
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Bates' Physical Exam
The streaming video edition of the classic Bate's Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking, providing the foundation for performing physical examination and taking the patient history.
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BioMed Central
An independent publishing house that provides immediate open access to peer-reviewed biomedical research. Original research articles receive full and stringent peer review and then are made freely and permanently accessible online to ensure the rapid and efficient communication of research findings.
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Biosis
A comprehensive citation database for life science research. This database covers original research reports and reviews in biological and biomedical areas. Descriptive abstracts are included with complete citation information. Database records are updated weekly
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CDC Wonder
An online public health information system that can provide numbers and rates of sexually transmitted diseases, cancer cases, or deaths in the United States. Users can request data for any disease and demographic group by submitting ad hoc queries against available datasets from the National Center for Health Statistics.
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CINAHL
The premier database for nursing and allied health literature, CINAHL currently indexes more than 1800 journals in nursing, allied health, alternative/complementary therapy, biomedical, and consumer health journals, as well as audiovisuals and educational software.
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ClinicalTrials.gov
A website from the National Institutes of Health providing current information about clinical research studies. This website regularly updates information about a trial's purpose, who may participate, locations, and phone numbers for more details.
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Cochrane Library
A collection of evidence-based databases including the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, the Cochrane Controlled Clinical Trials Register, the Cochrane Review Methodology Database, and the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness. The databases can be searched sumultaneously using medical subject headings (MeSH) and text words.
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eMedicine
Peer-reviewed medical reference developed specifically for point-of-care in hospitals, ambulatory care centers, clinics, and private offices.
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Environment & Safety Library
A database containing full-text federal and state laws, regulations, documents, and compliance tools relating to environment and safety information. Information is regularly updated and reviewed by more than 80 editorial, environmental, and legal professionals.
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Facts and Comparisons 4.0
Resouces include A To Z drug facts, drug comparisons, drug identifier, drug interaction facts, herbal interaction facts, investigational drugs. MedFacts patient information, Nonprescription drug therapy, and review of natural products.
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Faculty of 1000 Medicine
Next-generation literature evaluation and awareness service for medicine that systematically highlights and reviews the most pertinent papers in any field of medicine based upon the recommendations of a selected faculty of nearly 2500 leading international researchers and clinicians. Faculty of 1000 Medicine is intended to support evidence-based decision making by highlighting published research about therapy, diagnosis, screening, prognosis, causation and mechanisms of disease.
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GIDEON
An interactive decision support system database for diagnosis and reference in the fields of tropical and infectious diseases, epidemiology, microbiology, and antimicrobial chemotherapy. The GIDEON database is updated weekly with the latest information for all four of its modules: Diagnosis, Epidemiology, Therapy and Microbiology.
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Google
An automated search engine that uses software known as 'spiders' to crawl the web. The majority of sites listed in the search results are found and added automatically when Google 'spiders' crawl the web.
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Google Scholar
A subset of the Google search engine which indexes peer-reviewed journal articles, preprints, technical reports, and other scholarly literature with direct linking to journal articles via UC-eLinks. Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.
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HEAL
A digital library of teaching resources for health sciences education. It is designed to facilitate the sharing of a wide variety of high-quality, freely available multimedia resources that are currently located on the HEAL server and across many remote servers. HEAL also functions as a publishing venue, as authors may submit high-quality multimedia resources for review and publication within HEAL.
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IBIDS
A citation database containing information on the topic of dietary supplements, produced by the Office of Dietary Supplemtsof the National Institutes of Health in conjunction with the Food and Nutrition Information Center of the National Agricultural Library, U.S. Department of Agriculture. Records contain full citation information and abstracts.
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images.MD
An online encyclopedia consisting of over 50,000 high-quality images spanning all fields of internal medicine. Each image is accompanied by detailed and informative text written by over 2,000 contributing experts. Information is regularly updated and expanded as new atlases are published or when existing series is updated.
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InfoPOEMs
A database system of filtered, synopsized, evidence-based informaton with an integrated search engine that permits simultaneous keyword searching of a variety of clinical databases includeg POEMs, Cochrane and more. Searches performed identify and summarize the most valid and clinically-applicable new evidence.
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Journal Citation Reports
A comprehensive resource that allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from over 7,500 scholarly and technical journals from more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries. The only source of citation data on journals, including virtually all areas of science, technology, and social sciences, JCR can show you the most frequently cited, the highest impact, and the largest journals in a given field.
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Lab Training Library
An accredited multimedia library of training and education for the clinical laboratory. This website provides interactive, PACE-accredited training courses to help build and maintain laboratory staff competency.
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MD Consult
A database providing full text access to over 50 renowned medical texts, articles from more than 70 clinical journals, practice guidelines, drug information, 5,000 patient education handouts,CME, and daily medical updates. Integrated resource searching provides instant access to evidence-based support for patient education, diagnosis, and management.
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Medical Letter
A peer-reviewed, nonprofit publication that provides unbiased critical evaluations of drugs, with special emphasis on new drugs. Reviews of older drugs are supplied when important new information becomes available on their usefulness or adverse effects. Medical Letter is published every other week with occasional issues published focusing on new non-drug treatment or a new diagnostic.
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MedlinePlus
A website containing carefully selected links to web resources with authoritative health information for patiens and consumers. This site is maintained by the National Library of Medicine which reviews existing links every six months. New links are added on a daily basis.
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MedPix
A medical image database made available as a free internet resource by the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS). MedPix includes the Medical Imaging Atlas, peer-reviewed teaching files, differential diagnosis tools, patient profiles, disease topics, case conferences and more. Registration is free but not required to view images.
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Melvyl Catalog
The online library catalog for all UC libraries that provides location status information for books, journals, and other library resources. Melvyl contains over 25,000,000 records. Most campuses update their holdings on a weekly basis.
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Micromedex
A collection of databases that provides comprehensive drug, acute care, and toxicology information. Databases can be searched individually, or a collection of databases can be searched simultaneously. A suite of PDR sources and Martindale are included in this resource.
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National Guideline Clearinghouse
A comprehensive database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related documents maintained by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This public resource provides an accessible mechanism for obtaining objective, detailed information on clinical practice guidelines.
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Natural Standard
A website that provides evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies. Natural Standard is an international research collaboration that aggregates and synthesizes data on complementary and alternative therapies. Therapies covered are researched and categorized based on the quality of available evidence.
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NEJM
An online journal providing full-text access to articles published by the Massachusetts Medical Society. Issues published within the current six months are restricted to UCI access. Issues older than six months are freely available to all from this wevsite.
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NLM Drug Information Portal
The NLM Drug Information Portal gives the public, healthcare professionals, and researchers a gateway to current, accurate and understandable drug information from the National Library of Medicine and other key government agencies.
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NLM Gateway
A web-based system that permits users to search simultaneously in multiple retrieval systems, including MEDLINE, OLDMEDLINE, and MEDLINEplus. This gateway allows users of NLM services to initiate searches from one web interface, providing an overall search of NLM's information resources.
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NLM Style Guide
Citing Medicine provides assistance to authors in compiling lists of references for their publications, to editors in revising such lists, to publishers in setting reference standards for their authors and editors, and to librarians and others in formatting bibliographic citations.
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Nursing Consult
A comprehensive online resource for nurses offering authoritative information to help provide better patient care.
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Nursing Reference Center
A user-friendly resource intended for staff nurses, nurse administrators, nursing students, nurse faculty, and hospital librarians. Resources include CINAHL nursing guide, patient education documents in both English and Spanish. HealthDay news with daily FDA, clinical, and drug updates, Davis's comprehensive handbook of Laboratory and diagnostic tests, Davis's Drug guide for nurses, and Taber's cyclopedic medical dictionary. Nurses are also able to obtain continuing education unit (CEU) credits via access to over 100 CEU modules.
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Pharmacist's Letter
Database service for pharmacists to keep them up to date on new developments in drug therapy. The service consists of a monthly letter, plus Detail-Documents available 24 hours a day. Pharmacists receive concise updates and advice information. The Detail-Documents provide in-depth coverage answering many specific questions related to each topic.
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PLoS One
A free online journal from the Public Library of Science (PLoS) that accepts submissions from all fields of science and medicine, using a new peer-review strategy. All published articles are reviewed by an editorial board prior to publication, accepted papers posted on the journalĘs website are accompanied by board membersĘ comments, and readers may also post remarks on a paper.
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Prescriber's Letters
Database service for prescribers to keep them up to date on new developments in drug therapy. The service consists of a monthly letter, plus Detail-Documents available 24 hours a day. Prescribers receive concise updates and advice information. The Detail-Documents provide in-depth coverage answering many specific questions related to each topic.
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Psychiatry Online
PsychiatryOnline is a website that features DSM-IV-TR® and The American Journal of Psychiatry in addition to a collection of psychiatric references, including books, journals, and self-assessment tools.
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PsycINFO
A citation database of psychological literature. This database includes citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law.
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PubMed@UCI
A citation database developed by the National Library of Medicine. Users have access to over 11 million citations from MEDLINE and life sciences journals. Using PubMed@UCI ensures that the user will see all online articles available at UCI. Some search results include print availability and interlivrary loan information.
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RefWorks
An online research management, writing and collaboration tool designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies.
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STAT!Ref
A search engine that provides access to the full-text contents of 45 classic medical drug textbooks along with the PIER Database of evidence-based guidelines and resources. The user has the ability to conduct comprehensive or selective searches of the available resources.
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STAT!Ref: Nursing
A collection of fully searchable nursing and medical titles.
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Trip Plus
A medical search engine that searches a wide range of evidence-based medicine (EBM) sources. It also provides direct searching of PubMed's Clinical Queries interface, allowing users to sumultaneously search the MEDLINE database using the validated search filters. The content of the site updated monthly with 300-400 new articles.
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uCentral
The UC Irvine Libraries have a one-year (August 2007-July 2008) trial to Unbound Central, including the PDA versions of:
- Merck Manual
- Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary
- BMJ's Clinical Evidence
- Emergency Medicine Manual
- Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests
The trial is only available to UCI students, faculty, and staff.
These resources can be accessed on the web from a PC or from an Internet-enabled wireless device (Treo, BlackBerry or iPhone), and can also be downloaded to a PDA (Palm or PocketPC).
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UpToDate
A database of filtered, synopsized, and evidence-based information. This database contains clinical references which are the equivalent of 40,000 pages of original peer-reviewed text. Specific practical recommendations for diagnosis and treatment are provided.
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Web of Science
A citation database, also known as 'Science Citation Index', indexes 5,700 major journals in the field of science. Web of Science also includes: Journal Citation Reports, Social Science Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index.
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