The following databases are newly acquired or being evaluated for a future subscription.
Best Practice brings together regularly updated research evidence and guidelines with peer-reviewed expert opinion. Healthcare professionals get information they can trust quickly — and in an intuitive format that recognizes the demands of everyday clinical practice. Best Practice is the only point of care tool to include a clinical workflow component, anticipating clinical questions and providing answers in seconds without sifting through large quantities of text.
The ECRI Guidelines Trust® is a publicly available online repository of objective, evidence-based clinical practice guideline content. Its purpose is to provide physicians, nurses, other clinical specialties, and members of the healthcare community with current clinical practices to advance safe and effective patient care. This centralized repository includes evidence-based guidance developed by nationally- and internationally-recognized medical organizations and medical specialty societies.
The Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) publishes peer-reviewed scientific video article protocols to accelerate biological, medical, chemical, physical research.
Find Infectious and Immune-mediated Disease (IID) data across many repositories.
The OED is the definitive record of the English language, featuring 600000 words, 3 million quotations, and over 1000 years of English. An unsurpassed guide for researchers in any discipline to the meaning, history, and usage of over 500,000 words and phrases across the English-speaking world.
The Physiotherapy Evidence Database (‘PEDro’ for short) provides physiotherapists with access to high-quality clinical research so they can practice and teach effectively. PEDro includes more than 61,000 randomized controlled trials, systematic reviews and evidence-based clinical practice guidelines relevant to physiotherapy.
RxNav is a browser for several drug information sources, including RxNorm, RxTerms and MED-RT. RxNav finds drugs in RxNorm from the names and codes in its constituent vocabularies. RxNav displays links from clinical drugs, both branded and generic, to their active ingredients, drug components and related brand names. RxNav also provides lists of NDC codes and links to package inserts in DailyMed. The RxTerms record for a given drug can be accessed through RxNav, as well as clinical information from MED-RT, including pharmacologic classes, mechanisms of action and physiologic effects.
IRIS is the digital library of WHO’s published material and technical information in full text produced since 1948. Its content is freely accessible and searchable in the six official languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian & Spanish).
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The Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) publishes peer-reviewed scientific video article protocols to accelerate biological, medical, chemical, physical research.
Organized into targeted learning centers, LearningExpress Library Complete supports those looking to improve core academic skills, pass a high school equivalency test, prepare for college, explore careers, study for occupational certification tests, become a U.S. citizen and much more. Learning centers contain practice tests, interactive tutorials, microlessons, e-books, articles and flashcards. Particularly noteworthy are resources for graduate school admissions exam prep (i.e. GRE, GMAT, LSAT).
U.S. Major Dailies provides access to the five most respected U.S. national and regional newspapers, including The New York Times and Washington Post, co-exclusive access to The Wall Street Journal, and exclusive access to Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune. The titles offer researchers thorough and timely coverage of local, regional, and world events with journalistic balance and perspective. The content is available by 8am each day and provides archives stretching as far back as 1985.
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