Research Guides: Resident and Fellow Access to UC eResources: Health Sciences Library Resources

Point of Care Resources

Use Point of Care resources to quickly make evidence-based decisions in a clinical setting. They are examples of filtered information sources and include summaries, with links to relevant articles and guidelines, and are often graded for quality. Total list of HSL databases.

Prep for rotations - try New England Journal of Medicine Resident 360! Free with UC's subscription to NEJM. To register choose via email and use your UC email address.

ClinicalKey
Access limited to UC Academic Health Center users. Off Campus Access :set up and create
a ClinicalKey personal account using your UC email address. Then log into your ClinicalKey personal account.
ClinicalKey personal account instructions.

This collection includes medical books, textbooks current journals, practice guidelines, patient handouts, and drug information from Clinical Pharmacology. CME credits via the Cleveland Clinic. This resource is specifically designed to support physicians in evidence-based clinical care and clinical education, and also supports researchers and instructors with an included presentation builder for use with images and videos.

Alternate ClinicalKey Remote Access

Create a personal account using your UC email address to access all full text content. Step by step instructions: https://guides.libraries.uc.edu/nursing/blog/having-difficulty-accessing-clinicalkey-from-off-campus

ClinicalKey: http://www.clinicalkey.com/

Cochrane Library (Wiley Online Library)

DiSaia's Clinical Gynecologic Oncology

DynaMed Plus
Go to DynaMed Plus™ for answers to clinical questions. Content is written by a world-class team of physicians who synthesize the evidence and provide objective analysis.

DynaMed Plus Mobile

Faculty Opinions
An article recommendation service (formerly F1000Prime and F1000Biology) providing up-to-date notifications on essential “science you shouldn’t miss.” Articles are annotated with commentary and ratings from a global virtual Faculty of experts in life sciences, health and physical sciences. These further details describe the importance and potential impact of a broad range of research articles. Users of Faculty Opinions can also add comments to published recommendations.
Lexicomp Online
Lexicomp Online is a collection of clinical databases and clinical decision support tools that provides users with an extensive medical library. It provides clear, concise, point-of-care drug information, including dosing, administration, warnings and precautions, as well as clinical content, such as clinical practice guidelines, IV compatibility from Trissel's 2 Clinical Pharmaceutics Database, and other tools.
Natural Medicines
Natural Medicines provides high quality¸ evidence-based information on dietary supplements (including herbs¸ vitamins¸ and minerals)¸ functional foods¸ diets¸ complementary practices (modalities)¸ exercises¸ and medical conditions
Nursing Reference Center Plus
A point-of-care clinical resource that includes Quick Lessons and Evidence-based Care Sheets; drug information; practice guidelines; customizable patient education handouts¸ care plans¸ and more.

PubMed Clinical Queries
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PubMed Clinical Queries provides a special evidence based filter to help retrieve evidence based research and systematic reviews in PubMed.

Trip Pro
TRIP was created in 1997 to bring together all the evidence-based healthcare resources available on the Internet. TRIP plus was created in April 2003; this greatly enhanced version includes coverage of peer-reviewed journals, medical images and patient information leaflets, and is updated monthly
UpToDate
Access limited to UC Academic Health Center users. Off Campus Access: use the UpToDate app. To do so, set up My Desk (https://mydesk.uc.edu/). Then go to UpToDate, create a personal account using your UC email address, click on the Mobile Access link, and follow instructions. UCMC UC Health users may access UpToDate via the hospital licensed portal or Epic.

UpToDate is designed to provide concise, practical answers to clinical questions at the point of care.

Core Databases

Use core resources to find journal articles and links to full text. Total list of HSL databases.

CINAHL Plus with Full Text
CINAHL Plus with Full Text provides indexing for 3¸024 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health¸ with indexing back to 1937. CINAHL Plus with Full Text also contains searchable cited references for more than 1¸160 journals and provides full text for hundreds of journals¸ plus legal cases¸ clinical innovations¸ critical paths¸ drug records¸ research instruments and clinical trials. PDF backfiles to 1937 are also included.
Coverage: 1937 - present
Cochrane Library (Wiley Online Library)
A unique source of reliable and up-to-date information on the effects of interventions in health care. The Cochrane Library consists of a regularly updated collection of evidence-based medicine databases.
EMBASE
EMBASE (Excerpta Medica dataBASE) is a biomedical and pharmacological international database (1947 to present).
Coverage: 1966 - present
PsychiatryOnline
PsychiatryOnline is a powerful web-based portal that features DSM-V-TR®—the most widely used psychiatric reference in the world—and The American Journal of Psychiatry as the cornerstones of an unsurpassed collection of psychiatric references from American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.Also includes journals, textbooks, study guides, and clinical and research news from Psychiatric News, and more.
PsycINFO
PsycINFO, produced by the American Psychological Association, is a collection of electronically stored bibliographic references--most with abstracts or content summaries. It contains citations that PsycINFO has created in electronic form. Although the references themselves are all written in English, the covered literature includes material published in over 45 countries and written in 30 languages.Coverage: 1872-present
PubMed
PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine. includes over 24 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.
Scopus (Elsevier)
Indexing¸ abstracts¸ and citation searching for science and social science scholarly literature. Scopus covers 14¸000 titles across 4¸000 publishers¸ providing access to over 25 million abstracts going back to 1966 and 5 years of cited reference back years¸ building up to 10 years by the end of 2005. Coverage: 1966 - present
Web of Science
Web of Science is a multidisciplinary database with searchable author abstracts¸ covering the journal literature of the sciences. It indexes 5¸300 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines¸ covering approximately 2¸000 more journals than its SCI print and CD-ROM counterparts¸ with all cited references captured. Coverage: 1965 - present

Times Cited Resources:

To see how many times an author or article has been cited use Scopus or Web of Science (see links above). Look up journal impact factors in InCites: Journal Citation Reports (see link below).

InCites: Journal Citation Reports
InCites: Journal Citation Reports offers a systematic¸ objective means to critically evaluate the world's leading journals¸ with quantifiable¸ statistical information based on citation data. By compiling articles - cited references¸ Journal Citation Reports helps to measure research influence and impact at the journal and category levels¸ and shows the relationship between citing and cited journals.

Citation Management Software

The Citation Management Software guide provides an overview of four citation management software options. F1000 SciWheel and RefWorks are HSL subscriptions so accounts are free for HSL users. Zotero is also free. EndNote Online is also free but EndNote desktop must be purchased. Use this guide to review and determine if one of these citations managers meets your needs.