Library Guides: Medicine: Home

Most Useful Databases

There are many databases that could be of use to those studying Medicine but here are some that we would recommend you use:

EMBASE
Biomedical and pharmacological database which provides access to the most up-to-date information about medical and drug-related subjects.

The EMBASE.com product allows you to search EMBASE in combination with the MEDLINE database from the National Library of Medicine
PubMed
The subject scope of MEDLINE is biomedicine and health. Increased coverage of life sciences began in 2000.

An index of biomedical literature, including all data from the Medline database from National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the US National Library of Medicine (NLM).
MEDLINE (Ovid)
International literature on biomedicine, including the allied health fields and the biological and physical sciences, humanities, and information science as they relate to medicine and health care.

Updated daily, MEDLINE on the Ovid platform offers searchers access to over 23 million of the latest bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 5,600 biomedicine and life sciences journals in nearly 40 languages (60 languages for older journals).
MEDLINE (EBSCO)
A comprehensive source for medical and biomedical sciences.
CINAHL Complete
An authoritative source of information for the professional literature of nursing, allied health, biomedicine, and healthcare. It provides full-text for more than 1,300 indexed journals.
Cochrane Library
Evidence-based research to inform healthcare decision making. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. Download REVMAN here RevMan facilitates preparation of protocols and full reviews, including text, characteristics of studies, comparison tables, and study data. It can perform meta-analysis of the data entered, and present the results graphically.