Health Sciences Resources

Help for your research, studies, educational efforts and clinical care evidence questions

Access Library Materials Off-Campus

Most of our licensed library materials require a VPN connection if you are off campus. There are a few options to choose from for UC Davis and UC Davis Health off-campus access to these library resources.

How to Connect from Off-Campus

Key Databases

Library databases are searchable collections of published academic works.

PubMed for UC Davis

Biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books

VetLexicon

Point-of-care veterinary clinical reference covering dogs, cats, rabbits, exotics, cattle and horses

UpToDate

Point-of-care clinical medicine — requires HS/Citrix login.

CINAHL Complete

Nursing and allied health literature

Ovid

Ovid Medline, JBI Best Practice, Health & Psychosocial Instruments, AGRICOLA, CAB Abstracts

Embase

Biomedical and drug and pharmacological research

Cochrane Library

Systematic reviews and register of controlled trials

CABI Digital Library

Agricultural abstracts, articles, and ebooks, including global health and one health

Scopus

Interdisciplinary academic literature with citation tracking tools.

Web of Science

Interdisciplinary academic literature with citation tracking tools

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Health Sciences Research Guides

Research guides are lists of library resources organized by subject area that are curated by UC Davis librarians.

Medical resident at UC Davis Health wearing stethoscope and scrubs clicks on tablet

Clinical Apps

Evidence-Based Practice Resources

Closeup of textbooks with stethoscope on top

Health Sciences e-Books

Nursing and Physician Assistant Resources

Systematic Reviews

Veterinary Medicine

More Research Guides

Other Ways to Access Library Materials

Clinical Resources Center (UCDH)
Portal to information resources for clinicians at UC Davis Health. Off-campus access requires use of UCDH Cisco AnyConnect VPN. First time users will be prompted to request access.
BrowZine
Find, follow and directly access journals available from the UC Davis Library or from open sources.
“Get it at UC”
Look for the “Get it at UC” button to connect to full-text articles and e-books directly from your favorite database.
Request Books or Articles
Request materials from other libraries, scans of articles or book chapters, or recommend a resource for addition to the UC Davis Library.

Connect with a Health Sciences Librarian

Davis Campus

hslref@ucdavis.edu

UC Davis Health / Sacramento Campus

bmlref@ucdavis.edu

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Advance Your Research and Learning

Help with Research, Publishing and Evidence-Based Practice

Our librarians can help you:

Find literature, data, statistics or assessments tailored to your research or clinical question
Learn about the scholarly publication landscape
Learn how to improve the methods and reproducibility of evidence syntheses
Articulate the impact of your work using impact metrics
Search for books and e-books

Request a Workshop or Educational Session

Topics include:

Introduction to Library resources and services
Evidence-based practice (e.g., searching the literature for evidence in veterinary medicine, medicine, nursing)
Introduction to systematic review methodology
Advanced literature searching (including searching for evidence on health disparities, population health and other specialized topics or searching particular databases)
Finding open health data or health statistics
Resources for authors

At least two weeks’ notice (or more) requested for most sessions.

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