Subject Guide: Health Education
Subject Specific Databases
PubMed Rightly, this is the go-to resource for many medical professionals. A very large, very comprehensive database that is an excellent starting and finishing point for conducting health science literature research. It searches the MEDLINE database and other life science journals.
Academic Search Ultimate A large, academically multidisciplinary article database that is a very good place to start a scholarly literature search.
AccessMedicine Medical textbooks, including Understanding Teamwork in Health Care, Current Practice Guidelines in Primary Care, and The Patient History. Also includes patient education resources.
General/ Related Databases
Web of Science: Science Citation Index The premier database for literature searches in many fields. Includes citations and abstractions from tens of thousands journals.
ScienceDirect Scholarly articles from scientific, technical, and medical journals. A product of the major academic publisher Elsevier.
Journals@Ovid Scholarly articles from scientific, technical, and medical journals.
ClinicalKey A decision-support tool designed for medical clinicians with a large variety of clinical resources. It has over 650 journals, 1,100 medical reference books, instructional videos, practice guidelines, medical images, and abstracts from the MEDLINE database.
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews A well-regarded, regularly updated collection of review articles on many medical topics. Use EBM Reviews to search other providers of reviews simultaneously.
EBM Reviews Evidence-based medicine (EBM) reviews of articles on many health science topics. This resource searches multiple sources simultaneously:
- ACP Journal Club
- Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
- Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials
- Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE)
- Cochrane Methodology Register
- Health Technology Assessment
- NHS Economic Evaluation Database
WorldCat A huge database of books and other materials found in libraries across the U.S. and worldwide that you can borrow using Interlibrary Loan.
Education Webpage A list of Landman Library’s education databases.
Psychology Webpage A list of Landman Library’s mental and behavioral health databases.