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. Please Note: This resource is for use only by academic faculty, staff, and students, and is not for use in hospitals or clinics. |
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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. Please Note: This resource is for use only by academic faculty, staff, and students, and is not for use in hospitals or clinics. |
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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. Please Note: This resource is for use only by academic faculty, staff, and students, and is not for use in hospitals or clinics. |
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| AccessPhysiotherapy | connect | A comprehensive online resource for physical therapy education, AccessPhysiotherapy features learning tools such as physical therapy textbooks, NPTE-focused test prep, guided lectures, case files and multimedia content. |
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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. Please Note: This resource is for use only by academic faculty, staff, and students, and is not for use in hospitals or clinics. |
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| ACM Digital Library | connect | Journals and other services from the Association for Computing Machinery are available. | |
| 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. | |
| All OSU Databases | connect | This page includes a list of health sciences databases available at OSU. This link will take you to the Library Catalog where you can search or browse all databases available at OSU. | |
| Alt HealthWatch | connect | Full-text information on complementary, alternative, and integrated approaches to wellness, for both health professionals and consumers. |
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| American Heart Association eBook Collection | connect | Access eBook versions of the ACLS Provider Manual, BLS Provider Manual, Pediatric Advance Life Support Provider Manual, and more. |
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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. | |
| BoardVitals | connect | A powerful exam review tool with access to review questions and practice tests for USMLE Step 1, 2, and 3 and shelf exams for seven medical specialties targeted for use during clerkship rotations. |
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| BrowZine | connect | BrowZine is a free web or mobile application from Third Iron that allows users to browse, read, and monitor journals available through OSU Libraries. With BrowZine you can: easily access full text of articles, create a bookshelf of your favorite journals, save articles in personalized collections, and get alerts when new journal issues are published. By creating a free account in BrowZine, you can easily sync your bookshelves and reading lists across devices. The web-based version of BrowZine can be used in any internet browser and does not require a mobile device. BrowZine is also available as an app for both the Apple and Android mobile environments. |
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| 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. | |
| Consumer Health Complete | connect | Provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. | |
| 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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| Covidence | connect | 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. | |
| Dentistry & Oral Sciences Source | connect | Includes full text journals and eBooks covering areas of dentistry including dental public health, endodontics, facial pain & surgery, odontology, oral & maxillofacial pathology/surgery/rad |
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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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| Embase | connect | 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®. | |
| Facts & Comparisons eAnswers | connect | Facts & Comparisons provides an interactive online drug application with updated drug information to assist with comparing prescription drugs, drug interaction screening, drug identification, and more. This resource is for use only by academic faculty, staff, and students, and is not for use in hospitals or clinics. | |
| 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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| HCUPnet | connect | The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project is a family of health care databases and related software tools and products developed through a Federal-State-Industry partnership and sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. HCUP includes the largest collection of longitudinal hospital care data in the United States, encompassing all-payer, discharge-level information including the National Inpatient Sample and other state and national datasets. | |
| 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. Please Note: This resource is for use only by academic faculty, staff, and students, and is not for use in hospitals or clinics. |
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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. | |
| Medical Services and Warfare | connect | Explore multiple perspectives on the history of injury, treatment and disease on the front line. Chart scientific advances through hospital records, medical reports and first-hand accounts, and discover the evidence of how war shaped medical practice across the centuries. | |
| MedOne Plastic Surgery | connect | A collection of plastic and reconstructive surgical content including eBooks, step-by-step details for reconstructive and aesthetic procedures, teaching videos, journal content, and a self-assessment. |
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| Mental Measurements Yearbook | connect | A comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments in psychology, education, business, and leadership. |
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| Merck/Yale Online Courses | Access two online courses (1) Drug Development and Pharmacology and (2) Principles of Clinical Research and Design, developed by Merck in collaboration with Yale University. | ||
| Natural Medicines | connect | Formerly Natural Standard and Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database, Natural Medicines 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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| PressReader | connect | PressReader allows OSU users to access digital versions of print newspapers and magazines from around the world. This interface makes for easy browsing, just like you had the paper in front of you! |
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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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| PubMed (New Version 2020) | connect | An updated version of PubMed is now available offering a new responsive design for mobile devices and improved search options. It will become the default version in Spring 2020. |
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| PubMed Health | connect | Provides information for consumers and clinicians on prevention and treatment of diseases and conditions, and specializes in reviews of clinical effectiveness research with summaries for consumers and full technical reports. | |
| Read by QxMD | connect |
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| Research-Tested Intervention Programs (RTIPs) | connect | National Cancer Institute sponsored database of cancer control interventions and program materials designed to provide program planners and public health practitioners easy and immediate access to research-tested materials. | |
| Safari Books Online | connect | Provides access to thousands of books, videos, expert-curated courses, and interactive learning environments for business, technology, and more. |
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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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| Scientific American Medicine (formerly ACP Medicine) | connect | An authoritative source of information on all sixteen subspecialities of internal medicine. | |
| Scientific American Surgery (formerly ACS Surgery) | connect | A continuously updated general surgical reference. | |
| 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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| VisualDx | connect | A diagnostic clinical decision and medical education support tool that aids in making faster, more accurate diagnoses. Combines high-quality, peer-reviewed medical images with concise information to support clinical staff and health sciences students in the accurate recognition and management of disease. |
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| Web of Science | connect | Access the Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and more through the Web of Science. |
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