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Current online editions of over 100 major medical textbooks, like Harrison's Online and Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment. Includes interactive tests, information on drugs and diagnostic tests,infographics, flashcards, patient education handouts, videos, animations, quizzes, cases, podcasts, and more.
CINAHL Complete
CINAHL Complete is a comprehensive source for nursing & allied health research, providing full text for over 1,400 journals indexed in CINAHL. Includes Evidence-Based Care Sheets and Quick Lessons.
MEDLINE Complete
MEDLINE Complete provides medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system and pre-clinical sciences. Uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing to search citations from over 5,400 current biomedical journals. Includes full text access to over 1,800 journals indexed in MEDLINE.
Ovid Nursing Full Text with Ovid Emcare
Includes 51 full-text journals from Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), along with indexed citations and abstracts for thousands of additional nursing journals.
PubMed
PubMed includes over 30 million indexed 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. Dates: early 1800s - present.
R2 Digital Library
R2 Digital Library is an ebook collection with over 4000 titles covering medical, nursing, and allied health.
SciTech Premium Collection
Covers all the sciences, engineering, forestry, geography, homeland security and terrorism, International relations, mathematics, military and defense, public health and safety, sustainability, and much more. Includes scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, select videos, conference proceedings, government publications and more.
Dates: 1946 - present.

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EBSCO Medline Complete Tutorial
Short video introduction to the EBSCO interface for Medline.
EBSCO CINAHL Databases - Basic Search
Video introduction to the CINAHL database on EBSCOhost.
PubMed Online Training
Try the "Quick Tours for Everyone" for basic how-tos and short videos.

Finding Evidence-based material

Include "evidence-based" as a search term when searching databases like PUBMED or CINAHL to retrieve articles that include the phrase in a title or abstract. For more precise results, use CINAHL's Evidence-based practice limiter, found on the Advanced Search page. You may also want to use PubMed's Clinical Queries.

PubMed Clinical Queries
Filters search to retrieve systemic reviews or articles in various clinical study categories.
TRIP Database
A clinical search engine that lets clinicians find high-quality research to support their practice, TRIP can be used to find guidelines across specialties as well as free fulltext articles.