Veterinary Medicine

The largest collection of veterinary literature, this database is one of the most important databases to search veterinary literature.

Indexes a number of veterinary titles despite being primarily for human medicine, due to its sophisticated search features, it is a great place to build your searches.

A large interdisciplinary database like Web of Science Core Collection but carries more veterinary literature in the ‘‘Basic list of veterinary medical serials, third edition’’  than any other database.

Large multidisciplinary database that covers a large amount of veterinary journals, a combined search can also be conducted with Biosis and Zoological Record to reach more veterinary content.

BIOSIS carries many unique veterinary titles that may not be available in larger veterinary databases like CAB Abstracts and Scopus.

This can be searched together with Web of Science Core Collection and Zoological Record.

Carries many unique veterinary journals including veterinary nurse or technician titles.

This database can be combined with Web of Science Core Collection and BIOSIS.

Indexes synthesis evidence in veterinary literature (systematic reviews and scoping reviews).  Article citations are imported via searches in CAB Abstracts and PubMed.

Indexes literature on wild mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians; covering all aspects of wildlife and wildlife management …

WAHIS Interface provides access to all data held within OIE’s new World Animal Health Information System (WAHIS)  …

Generic Animal Drug and Patent Restoration Act requires that a list of all animal drug products approved for safety and effectiveness be made available to the public …

OMIA is a database of genes, inherited disorders and traits in more than 135 animal species …

Database indexes resources in all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines including animal science, veterinary science …

Covers environmental science topics and agricultural research including agricultural economics, animal and veterinary sciences …

A cluster of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas …

Biomedical and pharmacological database  derived from biomedical articles in peer reviewed journals …

Nursing, biomedical, allied health and consumer health literature …

Current database of systematic reviews of medical research …

Global infectious disease knowledge management tool …

Brings together two international databases: Public Health and Tropical Medicine (PHTM) and the human health and diseases information extracted from CAB Abstracts …

Citations to articles in professional journals, conference proceedings, books, reports, dissertations …

Consolidates interdisciplinary bioethics material …

An online, point-of-care veterinary clinical reference source, currently covering dogs, cats, rabbits and horses

Diagnostic support system for veterinary medicine created by and maintained at Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine.  Creates differential lists based on clinical signs or affected system.

Formerly called Associate, this is a tool that allows the reader to find diseases by category or to use the “Diseases to Consider Tool” by listing species and clinical signs or diagnostic results.  VIN is free to veterinary students but requires registration.

VPN needed, this is another online textbook with very quick and digestible information about a number of diseases.

Comprehensive information about vitamin, herbal and other supplements, and nutritional products for both humans and pets. Includes ConsumerLab.com’s independent product evaluations, lists of quality-approved brands, product recalls, safety warnings, and test results for ConsumerLab.com selected products. Note: 12 simultaneous users, please log off when done.

Information on the health problems affecting animals, addressing the range of diseases, disorders, management issues.

Critically Appraised Topics (Secondary research or filtered interpretation of primary research like Randomized Control Trials) are regularly produced by this Evidence-based Veterinary Medicine product.  Produced by the University of Nottingham’s Centre for Evidence-based Veterinary Medicine

On the shelves of every practice, this is a leading formulary for veterinary medicine.  New site includes drug interactions and client sheets.

On the shelves of every practice, this is a leading formulary for veterinary medicine. This is the legacy site that will discontinue 11 June 2021.

This formulary is put out by the British Small Animal Veterinary Association which means some drugs listed may not be available in the USA.  In some cases, this can be helpful because they may have drugs that eventually will be available in the USA (like Jurox’s Alfaxalone).

This formulary is put out by the British Small Animal Veterinary Association which means some drugs listed may not be available in the USA.

Registration Required but freely accessible to veterinary students.

Provides a number of tools:

• Veterinary Partner (good information resource for clients)
• Veterinary Associate (a point of care tool)
• Forum (veterinarian crowd-sourced answers in these expert moderated forums)
• Formulary
• Proceedings of a number of veterinary societies

Published in 2014, this eBook focuses on equine specific pharmaceuticals.

Published 2018, this contains a formulary for a wide range of species including avian and invertebrates.

Content produced by the British Small Animal Veterinary Association (BSAVA) is available in this resource which includes manuals(books), special topics, proceedings, client handouts, podcasts, formularies and more.  Many reserved readings are BSAVA Manuals and they are available here online.

A resource to refer clients (freely accessible) or print various handouts.  It covers a wide range of species:

• dogs
• cats
• horses
• pigs
• small mammals
• birds
• ruminants

Often will have a number of client handouts with each disease covered.

Incorporates a great deal of production animal conference proceedings like namely, the Annual Convention of the American Association of Bovine Practitioners.

Freely available but requires registration

Contains a number of veterinary conference proceedings around the world as well as e-books.

Registration Required but freely accessible to veterinary students.

Provides a number of tools:

• Veterinary Partner (good information resource for clients)
• Veterinary Associate (a point of care tool)
• Forum (veterinarian crowd-sourced answers in these expert moderated forums)
• Formulary
• Proceedings of a number of veterinary societies

Contains proceedings of the British Small Animal Veterinary Association.

contains a number of conference proceedings as well as the largest quantity of veterinary titles.

LILACS (Latin American & Caribbean Health Sciences Literature) covers literature related to the health sciences and has been published in countries of Latin America and the Caribbean since 1982, and is published by WHO Regional Offices. It contains articles from about 670 of the most well-known journals in the medicine field, plus other documents such as: theses, books, conference proceedings, scientific reports and governmental publications.

Contains dissertations and theses since 1997.

International in scope, electronic analogues to paper-based theses and dissertations.

International in scope, open access resource to theses and dissertations.

Open access theses and dissertations on the ProQuest platform interface.

Theses and dissertations in the Library and Archives of Canada.

Google Scholar is a search engine that combs a wide variety of sites that contain proceedings, white papers, and theses from multiple disciplines.

Find researcher profiles, research units, projects, research output, and other key aspects of research at UC Davis School of Medicine, Veterinary Medicine, and School of Nursing.

Elsevier’s Scopus has one of the largest collections of Veterinary Core Literature.  Authors can also be found by Orcid ID.  Additionally, literature can be found by institution output.

Clarivate’s Web of Science Citations Index is a strong tool to find author publications.  Also allows investigation of literature by institution and subject area.

Provides Journal Impact Factor, Eigenfactor, Contributions by Country and Institution.

Provides Citescore, Scientific Journal Ranking (SJR Scimago) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Provides H-index and includes examination of citations per document of articles within or outside the journal and measures international collaboration.

Provides H-factor from Google Scholar data, whereas Scimago provides H-factor from Elsevier’s Scopus.

As long as you publish in an open access journal published in the Directory of Open Access Journals, UC DAvis Library will help cover your APC fees.

paste your article abstract and JANE will match your abstract to similar journals.

Put in your research field and your article title and abstract and this tool will help you find a journal.