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Most popular databases

Access Medicine
Over 30 textbooks in the basic sciences and medicine, including the Lange Current Diagnosis and Treatment series, Harrison's, and Goodman and Gilman's. The Lange Self-Assessment Tool for the USMLEasy is also included. Includes a search feature for images and video. Can be personalized and has PDA downloads. 


CINAHL

CINAHL with Full Text is a comprehensive source of citations and full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 580 journals indexed in CINAHL. Coverage dates back to 1981.

Cochrane Library

A source for evidence based healthcare information. Includes Cochrane Database of Systematics Reviews, Database of Abstracts of Reviews, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Cochrane Database of Methodology Reviews, Cochrane Methodology Register, Health Technology Assessment Database, and NHS Economic Evaluation Database. Available in PDF format.

DynaMed
DynaMed is a clinical reference for use at the point-of-care. It includes evidence-based, clinically-organized summaries for over 3,000 topics. It is updated daily, and includes calculators and patient handouts.

MDConsult
MD Consult is a virtual clinical library that includes over 50 full-text journals, 40 textbooks, clinical practice guidelines, customizable patient education handouts, and drug information. Available to OHSU faculty, staff, and students. No registration is necessary unless you would like to customize your own interface.

MEDLINE (Ovid)

Clinical and research aspects of medicine/life sciences. Personal accounts created prior to 2003 use Ovid (OH)

Micromedex
Pharmacological and toxicologic information. Not available on Science and Engineering Campus workstations.

Nursing Reference Center
A comprehensive reference tool designed to provide relevant, evidence-based, clinical resources to nurses and other health care professionals, directly at the point-of-care. It provides in-depth content, including conditions and diseases, patient education resources, drug information, continuing education, lab & diagnosis detail, best practice guidelines, and much more.

PsycINFO (Ovid)

Database of the psychological literature, including journals, books, and dissertations. Links to the full text of all APA journals. Uses the Ovid interface.

PubMed (OHSU access) | PubMed (Non-affiliated) 

Free MEDLINE, keyed to full text articles in over 400 electronic journals held by OHSU. Links to OHSU holdings ("Find it @ OHSU Library")WebBridge appear on article abstracts for those journals accessible to OHSU patrons.

Scopus
Citation and abstract database covering over 16,000 journals and millions of web sites, including patents. It also includes citing information for articles.

Stat!Ref
Searchable collection of 35 clinical reference texts.

UpToDate
A clinical information resource that includes thousands of original topic reviews written by recognized experts. It is designed to provide quick access to synthesized medical information in an easy-to-use format. Not available from off-campus via off-campus proxy access, WTS, or VPN.

Problems?

If you are having problems searching databases or finding the information you need, Ask a Librarian or call the reference desk at 503-494-3462.

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For problems with accessing Ovid from off-campus, email liboff@ohsu.edu

Ovid requires IE6+ or later (IE 7 preferred), Firefox 2.x or later, or Netscape 8.02 or later (9.x preferred) web browsers.
 
Mac users: Ovid cannot support IE on a Mac. You will need to choose Mozilla Firefox or another browser.
 
Blank page when you log in? Contact your network administrator and ask them to open port 8011 or have them contact us at library@ohsu.edu.