UCSF Guides: Medical Education: Databases

Recommendations

These resources provide access to research literature specific to medical education.

PubMed@UCSF
Public access to MEDLINE. Also includes the subject areas of nursing, dentistry, bioethics, complementary and alternative medicine, and history of medicine

Embase
Search all of Medline plus over 2,000 extra titles, including more EU journals. Covers medical and biomedical sciences plus drug and pharmacy. Good starting point for health sciences research including nursing, medicine, dentistry, and pharmacy.
Use Embase:
- For guided Entree subject searching (including MeSH)
- For great basic, natural language search
- For drug/pharmacy topics (coverage plus subheading options)
- To pick up recent articles & conference papers & EU journals
- For extensive search limiting options

Includes:
- all of Medline plus over 2,000 extra titles (including more EU journals) and 260,000 conference abstracts and dates back to 1947 and selectively to 1902
- over 24 million records from more than 7,500 journals
- Subject coverage = medical & biomedical sciences + drug & pharmacy

Renewal funds, courtesy of the Chancellor. Continuation of Embase will depend on funding.

keywords: pubmed medline
Web of Science
Find who has cited articles you find interesting.
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
PsycINFO
Psychology and related disciplines.
- Covers from 1887 to the present
- Includes citations to international literature in over 1,400 journals, conference proceedings, books, reports, and dissertations
- Related disciplines include anthropology, nursing, business, pharmacology, education, physiology, psychiatry, sociology, and medicine.

keywords: psyching psych info psych info psychinfo ethics
ERIC
Education and related social sciences. ERIC stands for Educational Resources Information Center.
- Covers from 1966 to the present
- Citation sources include journals, conference proceedings, curricula, research reports, dissertations and government documents.
- Provides extensive subject searching, including controlled subject vocabulary and searching for subject as major point of article.
- Multiple limits available, including target audience and document type.
Google Scholar
Find who has cited articles you find interesting.