Health Sciences Libraries Favorites

August 9, 2020

Health Sciences Libraries Favorites

August 9, 2020

Health Sciences Libraries Favorites

This guide provides links to popular health sciences databases, key subject guides, research help, and library services.

There are two UC Davis Health Sciences Libraries:
Carlson Health Sciences Library in Davis
Blaisdell Medical Library in Sacramento

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PubMed [via National Library of Medicine (US)]

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PubMed comprises more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.

Coverage: 1902-present
Tags: Animals, Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Veterinary Medicine
Related links: PubMed Help, Using MeSH Terms to Search PubMed {Trifold handout},

UC Davis Library Catalog

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This catalog allows one to search and explore the UC Davis Library collections. It contains records describing our extensive print and electronic holdings, and can be used (in Browse mode) as an inventory list of what we own or to what we provide access. Note: While our Journal collection is listed here, the articles in our journals are not listed.

CINAHL Complete: Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature [via EBSCO] [via EBSCO]

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CINAHL Complete provides coverage of journal literature related to nursing, speech and allied health.

Coverage: 1937-present
Tags: Allied Health, Forensics, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy
Related links: CINAHL Tutorials

CAB Abstracts [via CAB Direct] [via CAB]

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Citations and abstracts to the international agricultural literature, including veterinary medicine, human and animal nutrition, forestry, rural development, as well as other related topics such as tourism and human ecology.

Coverage: 1973-present
Tags: Agriculture, Animals, Ecology, Plants, Science
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Embase

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Embase provides essential biomedical evidence from evidence-based content, along with deep biomedical indexing and search forms to assist in building search strategies.

Coverage: 1974-current (for EMBASE records); 1966-current (for MEDLINE records)
Tags: Allied Health, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacology, Pharmacy, Public Health

Scopus [via Elsevier]

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Large interdisciplinary abstract and citation database to academic journal literature, conference proceedings and books with broad coverage across the sciences and social sciences, includes citation tracking tools.

Coverage: full coverage from 1996-present, with selected coverage as far back as 1823
Tags: Art, Biology, Humanities, Multidisciplinary, Science, Social Science
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BrowZine

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BrowZine Journal Engagement Platform is a web-based platform and mobile app that enables users to quickly find, easily follow, and directly access the library’s licensed e-journals on any device.Download BrowZine mobile app

BrowZine visually presents the library’s e-journals in a browsable and readable format with seamless synchronization across devices. Includes a My Bookshelf feature which enables users to add their favorite titles and receive notification of newly published articles (including articles in press). Articles can be saved to My Articles for reading and referencing later.

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