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UCSF-customized version of PubMed requires off campus users to log in with MyAccess for full text access. Good starting point for health sciences research including nursing, medicine, dentistry, and pharmacy.
- the Online version of Index Medicus produced by the US National Library of Medicine (NLM), which is freely available on the Internet, and which dates back to 1966 and selectively to 1809
- Contains over 22 million records
- Subject coverage = medical, biomedical and life sciences
In addition to Medline, Pubmed contains:
- ‘in process’ citations
- some older citations
- citations to non-medical journals
- citations to ebooks
- Subject coverage = medical, biomedical & life sciences.
Helps you find:
- nursing and allied health literature from 1937 to the present
- full-text articles
- full-text books
- standards of professional practice
- dissertations
Also contains:
- evidence-based care information
- educational software & continuing education modules
- audiovisual materials
- research instruments
- consumer health information
Multidisciplinary literature; Find how many times an article has been cited by others.
Includes or is also known as: Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, Web of Knowledge
Helps you:
- Identify more recent articles on the same topic
- Find where an article or author has been cited
- Find articles that an article has cited
- Links articles by citations
The University of California system ended its contract with the publisher Elsevier in 2019, which resulted in Elsevier cutting off access to journal articles published in 2019 and later, as well as to some journals altogether. If you are unable to get an article published by Elsevier, use one of the alternative access to get a copy of the article.
