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The most frequently-used databases
A robust collection of full text for nursing and allied health journals, providing full text for more than 925 journals indexed in CINAHL. It covers more than 50 nursing specialties and includes quick lessons, evidence-based care sheets, CEU modules and research instruments. Indexed back to 1937.
Access to peer-reviewed literature from scientific journals, books, and conference proceedings. Scopus also includes extensive journal metrics and author profiles.
- DynaMedexDynaMedex is a clinical reference tool created by physicians for physicians and other healthcare professionals for use at the point-of-care, together with built-in drug and drug interaction information from Micromedex. NOTE: This resource is also available as a mobile app. Click on phone icon to learn more.
- Essential Evidence PlusComprehensive clinical decision support system developed as a point-of-care tool for physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals and integrated with The Cochrane Library
- UpToDateEvidence-based, clinical resource NOTE: This resource is also available as a mobile app. Click on phone icon to learn more.
The following databases are newly acquired or being evaluated for a future subscription.
Hard-to-find grey literature from the front lines of health-care and social-care providers, researchers, and organizations, including the COVID and Emergent Diseases Archive.
Delivers videos featuring step-by-step, head-to-toe, and systems-based physical examination techniques, as well as interactive OSCE clinical reasoning modules and communication and interpersonal skills videos.
BioCyc is a database collection and website that couples rich and high-quality data with extensive bioinformatics tools. The BioCyc collection of Pathway/Genome Databases (PGDBs) provides a reference on the genomes, metabolic pathways, and (in some cases) regulatory networks of thousands of sequenced organisms.
Your ultimate platform for all infectious diseases, epidemiology, and microbiology information. Known for its comprehensive content and robust data synthesis with millions of data points, GIDEON® is updated daily by a global team of medical scientists. The platform features easy-to-use tools for pathogen identification, diagnosis, and dynamic data analysis.
The GIDEON® infectious disease database is trusted by reputed healthcare, educational, and research institutions around the world.
Hundreds of nonfiction digital audiobooks related to health and medicine. For the best experience, download the Libby app and then “Add a Library” and search for USF Health Libraries. Listen through your mobile device!
Lippincott Medical Procedures is a video library demonstrating step-by-step techniques for over 70 core medical procedures including ultrasounds, injections, lines and tubes, and sutures.
Sanford Guide Antimicrobial integrates Sanford's full suite of Antimicrobial Therapy guidelines (including HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis, Vaccines, and more) into a single web resource for maximum coverage and ease of use.
VisualDx is a medical image library and clinical decision support system that helps healthcare students learn to diagnose patients, improve treatment decisions, and educate patients.
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