Kay A. Buchanan
Education Library
434-982-2664
kaybuchanan@virginia.edu
University of Virginia Library
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Charlottesville VA 22904-4113
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AccessMedicine offers a collection of online medical books as well as podcasts, Lange study guides for USMLE preparation on Basic Science and Clinical Medicine, USMLEasy exam practice questions for Steps 1-3, Drug information, Patient education information, and Clinical practice guidelines.
Lists articles from over 500 English-language journals and entries for healthcare books, nursing dissertations, conference proceedings, professional standards, software and audiovisual materials. Pre-CINAHL provides limited access to the most recent articles.
Full text (PDF for download) of most dissertations accepted from 1997 on, some earlier works and some master's theses. Also lists dissertations and theses accepted from 1861 on in the US and at some Canadian, British, and other European universities. Abstracts included after July, 1980.
All aspects of biomedicine and allied health fields plus biological and physical sciences and humanities and information science as they relate to medicine and health care. Three companies, EBSCO,;OVID; and CSA provide access to the Medline database. The 3 companies may update their respective versions of the database at different times, but otherwise the content is the same.
Contains approximately 1,525,000 citations to articles from international biomedical journals covering the fields of medicine, preclinical sciences and allied health sciences from 1951 through 1965.
Publications of all kinds on topics such as kinesiology, motor learning, recreation, dance, fitness tests, sports equipment, sports law, medicine and business, coaching and training, and sport sociology/psychology.
Covers journal articles in more than 30 languages and books in English about psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education.
Citations from MedLine and for biomedical articles from other journals form the 1950s on. UVa also provides access to the Medline database through 3 other vendors. When you access Medline from these 3 other vendors, you can access the full text of journal articles contracted by UVa. We hope to provide this same service in the near future for PubMed.
The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
Full text of articles from journals published by Elsevier Science.
International database covering sports medicine, exercise physiology, biomechanics, coaching, recreation, and more. Includes book reviews.
Includes Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index which can be searched together or separately. Lists articles from over 5,700 science and engineering journals, 1,700 social sciences journals, and 1,100 arts and humanities journals. Frequent updates make it a good source for very recent information.