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Database Information
- MEDLINE
- MEDLINE® is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's (NLM)
premier bibliographic database that contains over 12 million references
to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on
biomedicine. It includes citations from over 4,600 worldwide journals
currently in 30 languages. Over 2,000 completed references are added
daily covering basic biomedical research and the clinical sciences,
nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, allied health, and
pre-clinical sciences. MEDLINE also covers life sciences that are vital
to biomedical practitioners, researchers, and educators, including some
aspects of biology, environmental science, marine biology, plant and
animal science as well as biophysics and chemistry. Ironically, the coverage of the professional literature of some health professions is not
as extensive as it could be. When searching for topics related to a particular health
profession, consider the databases listed below.
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- CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health
Literature)
- CINAHL provides extensive coverage of the nursing and allied health
literture, including occupational and physical therapy. Many of the articles included in
CINAHL are not included in MEDLINE.
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- IPA (International Pharmaceutical Abstracts)
- IPA provides comprehensive coverage of the pharmacy literature. It covers
many pharmacy journals and professional magazines which are not indexed in Medline. While
IPA provides extensive coverage of issues such as pharmacy management, regulation, ethics,
teaching, compounding, dosage forms, etc., its coverage of the clinical trial literature
is weak. Use Medline for locating clinical trials.
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- Drugs and Pharmacology
- Drugs and Pharmacology (D&P) provides extensive coverage of the drug
literature. The indexing policy is to index every drug mentioned in a paper - no matter
how trivial the reference. Because of this policy D&P often yields at least twice as
many references as Medline; however, many of them may be of limited usefullness. Use
D&P whenever you can't find enough information about a drug in Medline.
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