Additional Training Opportunities at Rush University Library
In addition to the training videos and guides here. You may also want to review the full list of database and resource guides produced by Rush's librarians. If you do not see a tutorial for the database you're interested in, please fill out our Ask a Question form to schedule an appointment with a reference librarian.
Help Topic Guides
- Guide to the Basics
- Borrowing
- Citing Your Sources
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Distance Education/Online Students
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- Google Scholar
- Tools for Clinical Care
Scopus
- Scopus This link opens in a new window
Scopus is an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources with smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research. It covers over 16,000 peer-reviewed journals, and 431 million quality web sources, including 23 million patents.
PubMed
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PubMed comprises more than 26 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
Ovid
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Ovid helps researchers, librarians, clinicians, and other healthcare professionals find important medical information so that they can make critical decisions to improve patient care, enhance ongoing research, and fuel new discoveries.
CINAHL
- CINAHL Ultimate This link opens in a new window
CINAHL Ultimate is the definitive full-text database for nursing and allied health research. It offers full-text access to a substantial portion of the most frequently cited journals in the CINAHL index, surpassing other databases. Providing 1,815 active full-text journals, this database covers over 50 nursing specialties. Additionally, it features full-text quick lessons, evidence-based care sheets, continuing education modules, nursing instructional videos, and more.
This CINAHL guide was developed by Rush Librarians, and contains information to help you effectively search CINAHL.
ClinicalKey
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ClinicalKey is a dynamic clinical resource designed to provide physicians with fast, clinically-relevant answers from Elsevier’s enormous library of proprietary medical and surgical content. ClinicalKey was built specifically to meet the search needs of physicians that a clinical resource be comprehensive, trusted, and fast.
- ClinicalKey Topic Pages1 minute video about clinical topic overview pages
- ClinicalKey Filters1 minute video explaining filters
- Clinical Key Presentation Maker1 minute video on creating a customized PowerPoint presentation of images with citations.
RefWorks
- RefWorksThis is a link to the RefWorks login page.
- RefWorks GuideThis is a comprehensive guide provided by ProQuest.
APA Databases via EBSCO
- APA PsycTests This link opens in a new windowProfessionally indexed, APA PsycTests makes it easy to download select ready-to-use research instruments, including a wide range of reliable measures never made commercially available.
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Psychology
by Patricia Chavez Last Updated Feb 4, 2025 202 views this year
- APA PsycInfo This link opens in a new windowThe PsycINFO database, American Psychological Association's (APA) renowned resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. It contains over 2.5 million citations and summaries dating as far back as the early 1800s. Ninety-eight percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed. The database also includes information about the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, technology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and others. Journal coverage, which spans from 1887 to present, includes international material selected from more than 2,200 periodicals in more than 27 languages. PsycINFO is indexed with controlled vocabulary from APA's Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms.
- PsycArticles This link opens in a new windowPsycArticles, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains more than 137,000 articles from 66 journals published by the APA, its imprint the Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF), and from allied organizations including the Canadian Psychological Association and the Hogrefe Publishing Group. It includes all journal articles, book reviews, letters to the editor, and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to present; nearly all APA journals go back to Volume 1, Issue 1. PsycARTICLES is indexed with controlled vocabulary from APA's Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms.