Databases
The following is a list of health sciences databases available at OSU. An A-Z list of all OSU databases is available from the Library Catalog.
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| AccessEmergencyMedicine | connect | Quickly search the diagnosis and treatment of a broad range of emergency cases with videos, detailed procedures, an extensive image library, and more than 12 emergency medicine textbooks. |
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| AccessMedicine | connect | Access to more than 60 medical titles including Harrison's Online, frequently updated content, thousands of images and illustrations, interactive self-assessment, case files, diagnostic tools, and more. |
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| AccessPharmacy | connect | Allows selection by core curriculum topic, browsing by organ system, review of textbooks, or searching across leading pharmacy online references. |
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| AccessSurgery | connect | An integrated online resource that provides medical students, surgical residents, and practicing surgeons with quick answers to surgical inquiries from trusted sources. | |
| ACM Digital Library | connect | Journals and other services from the Association for Computing Machinery are available. | |
| ACP Medicine | connect | An authoritative source of information on all sixteen subspecialities of internal medicine. | |
| ACS Surgery | connect | Sponsored by the American College of Surgeons, ACS Surgery is a continuously updated general surgical reference. | |
| AgeLine | connect | Focuses on social gerontology, the study of aging in psychological, health-related, social, and economic contexts. |
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| AHFS Online | connect | From the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. Assesses the advantages and disadvantages of various therapies, including interpretation of various claims of drug efficacy. | |
| Alt HealthWatch | connect | Full-text information on complementary, alternative, and integrated approaches to wellness, for both health professionals and consumers. |
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| Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection: Henry Stewart Talks | connect | Henry Stewart Talks publishes state of the art audio visual presentations by leading world authorities. | |
| Biosis Citation Index | connect | Indexes literature and provides citation indexing from 1980 to present, focusing on biological and medical research findings, pharmacological studies, and discoveries of new organisms. | |
| CAB Abstracts | connect | Covers significant research and development from 1972 to present, in fields such as biotechnology, genetics, human health and nutrition, and veterinary medicine. | |
| CINAHL | connect | The Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, CINAHL contains information on nursing and allied health fields such as dietetics, physical and occupational therapy, medical records, and more. |
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| ClinicalKey | connect | Contains content from several current Elsevier databases including MD Consult, First Consult, Procedures Consult, Clinics of North America and new content including over 900 eBooks. |
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| Cochrane Library | connect | A collection of six databases that contain different types of high-quality, evidence-based information to inform healthcare decision making. | |
| Compendex | connect | An interdisciplinary database covering the literature in engineering, technology, and computing. | |
| ConsumerLab | connect | Provides comprehensive information about vitamin, herbal and other supplements, and nutritional products. A science-based encyclopedia of natural products is also provided, including a drug-interaction database. |
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| Derwent Innovations Index | connect | Value-added patent information from Derwent World Patent Index® as well as patent citation information from Patents Citation Index®. |
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| Directories | connect | MedlinePlus provides links to directories to help you find libraries, health professionals, services and facilities. |
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| Dissertation Abstracts | connect | Information on doctoral dissertations and master’s theses, covering approximately 3,000 subject areas. Since 1988, all dissertation and thesis citations include abstracts. | |
| EBSCOhost MEDLINE | connect | MEDLINE is available to search through EBSCOhost. A comprehensive EBSCOhost MEDLINE user guide is available. |
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| EMsono | connect | This comprehensive emergency ultrasound education tool aids in developing and assessing ultrasonography knowledge and skills with state-of-the-art interactive learning modules, multimedia presentations, and more. | |
| Films on Demand | connect | Streaming video access to more than 8,000 videos including nearly 2,000 in Health and Medicine. |
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| Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) | connect | Access information on measurement instruments including questionnaires, index measures, coding schemes/manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, and more in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science. |
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| Health Source: Consumer Edition | connect | For the consumer or patient, provides full-text access to consumer health magazines, pamphlets on various medical topics, health reference books, and Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary. |
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| Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition | connect | Provides access to nearly 550 scholarly full-text journals in the nursing and allied health fields. |
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| History of Science, Technology and Medicine | connect | Indexes journal articles, proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations from 1975 to the present. | |
| Hypertension, dialysis, and clinical nephrology: HDCN | connect | Provides information on renal disorders and their treatment, and hypertension, dialysis, and clinical nephrology topics. |
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| IEEE Xplore | connect | Access the full-text of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) transactions, journals, magazines and conference proceedings published since 1988, and all IEEE Standards. | |
| International Pharmaceutical Abstracts | connect | Indexes over 750 journals on drug reactions, toxicity, stability, analysis, chemistry, metabolism and interactions; as well as investigational drugs, drug testing and evaluations, pharmacology, and pharmaceutical chemistry. | |
| JAMAevidence | connect | Includes full-text content, education guides, a glossary of EBM terms and definitions, calculators, worksheets, and other tools to aid in understanding and applying the medical literature and making clinical diagnoses. |
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| Journal Citation Reports | connect | Presents impact factors and other statistical data that provides one way to determine the relative importance of journals within their subject category. | |
| Lexi-Comp Online | connect | Access the web version of Lexi-Comp products including Lexi-Drugs, Pediatric and Neonatal Lexi-Drugs, AHFS Essentials, Natural Products Database, and more. Please Note: This resource is for use only by academic faculty, staff, and students, and is not for use in hospitals or clinics. | |
| Lexis-Nexis | connect | In addition to the full-text legal and business information, Lexis-Nexis Academic also indexes a number of full-text medical newsletters and journals. |
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| MD Consult | connect | MD Consult is no longer available and has been migrated to ClinicalKey. | |
| Mental Measurements Yearbook | connect | A comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments in psychology, education, business, and leadership. |
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| Micromedex | connect | A collection of databases offering comprehensive information on drugs, alternative medicine therapies, toxicology, and patient care. |
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| Natural Medicines Comprehsive Database | connect | Provides information on most herbal and dietary supplements used in the western world. Includes evidence-based safety and effectiveness ratings for each natural medicine listed in the database. | |
| Natural Standard | connect | Provides evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies. |
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| NetAnatomy | connect | Teaches human anatomy through radiographic, cross-sectional, and gross anatomical images and textual content. Anatomical descriptions, labels, and online tests are provided. | |
| Ovid | connect | Includes several resources including Ovid Medline, Books @ Ovid and Journals @ Ovid. | |
| Ovid MEDLINE | connect | Ovid's MEDLINE interface guides you through selections for a precise search based on Medical Subject Headings, subheadings, and limits. You can build your search strategy in steps and try multiple combinations to refine the search results. | |
| Patents (U.S.) | connect | The United States Patent and Trademark Office offers access to bibliographic and full-text patent databases. | |
| Pharmacist's Letter | connect | Covers new developments in drug therapy, and trends in pharmacy practice. Provides in-depth information on specific questions related to each topic. |
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| PsychiatryOnline | connect | Includes the DSM Library, psychiatry journals and textbooks, American Psychiatric Association Practice Guidelines, Self-assessment tools, and more. | |
| PsycINFO | connect | Covers publications in psychiatry, nursing, health administration, pharmacology, rehabilitation, and epidemiology. Resources generally have a psychological, behavioral, or cognitive focus. | |
| PubMed | connect | PubMed comprises more than 20 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. |
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| Science Citation Index | connect | Indexes cited references found in journals from over 150 scientific disciplines, in over 5,000 science and technical journals from 1980 to the present. In addition to subject and author searching, SCI permits tracking of references cited in journal articles. |
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| SciFinder Scholar | connect | The largest and most comprehensive database of chemical literature in the world, covers not only the core areas of chemistry, but related sciences such as biotechnology and toxicology. |
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| Scopus | connect | Scopus is an abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources in the medical, scientific, technical, social sciences, and arts and humanities fields. |
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| Social Science Citation Index | connect | SSCI provides access to multidisciplinary literature on such topics as gerontology, mental health, nursing, public health, rehabilitation, social work, and substance abuse. In addition to subject and author searching, SSCI permits tracking of references cited in journal articles. |
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| SPORTDiscus | connect | Covers topics such as sports medicine, exercise physiology, biomechanics, and physical fitness. Indexes journal articles, book chapters, and conference proceedings. |
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| Trip Database | connect | A clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use research evidence. Content types include images, videos, patient information leaflets, educational courses and news. |
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| Ulrich's Periodicals Directory | connect | A directory of magazines, journals, newspapers, newsletters, 'zines, and more. | |
| UpToDate | connect | Provides evidence-based answers to commonly asked questions in clinical practice. Designed to provide practical, concise information needed at the point of care. |
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| Web of Knowledge | connect | Access the Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and more through the Web of Knowledge. |
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