Publications and Scholarship
The Medical Heritage Center provides an avenue and environment for scholars to publish works on topics of historical medical significance. The Center helps secure funding for publications, conducts hands-on research, provides opportunities for guest articles to appear in Center publications, and serves as a launching pad for newly published works.
Borrow and Request Items
Attention, please: Catalog and eJournal searches and online check-out service disruptions will begin May 23, 2025 due to planned system upgrades. Read this news article for more information and alternate check-out options. Thank you for your flexibility.
The Second Blessing: Columbus Medicine and Health The Early Years is a book written by Medical Heritage Center scholars Covidence
Covidence is a systematic reviews production tool for title/abstract screening, full-text screening, data abstraction, and quality assessment. Covidence was designed by researchers familiar with the systematic review process in order to make conducting reviews more efficient. It is the primary screening and data extraction tool for Cochrane authors.
Embase
With over 31 million indexed records and more than 8,500 indexed peer-reviewed journals, Embase is a highly versatile, multipurpose and up-to-date database covering the most important international biomedical literature from 1947 to the present day. All articles are indexed in depth using the Elsevier Life Science thesaurus Emtree®.
About the Health Sciences Library
The Ohio State University Health Sciences Library primarily serves all faculty, staff and students of the Wexner Medical Center and the five Health Sciences colleges via its physical and its vast digital resources, along with the expertise of its librarians and technical staff.
ClinicalKey
ClinicalKey contains content from several current Elsevier databases including MD Consult, First Consult, Procedures Consult, Clinics of North America and new content including nearly 900 eBooks*.
The collection of journals available in ClinicalKey is growing every month, and currently includes more than 600,000 articles from more than 500 journals.
ClinicalKey also has more than 20 million MEDLINE abstracts, which are retrieved each day from the National Library of Medicine (NLM).
net.TUTOR
Offers interactive tutorials on basic tools and techniques for becoming an effective Internet researcher. Developed by Nancy O'Hanlon (User Education, OSU Libraries).