The mission of AHRQ is translating research findings into better patient care and providing policymakers and other health care leaders with information needed to make critical health care decisions. The AHRQ website provides guidelines; not citations/abstracts to peer-reviewed journal articles.
The Cochrane Library includes systematic reviews relating to the PREVENTION, TREATMENT or MANAGEMENT, and (if applicable) REHABILITATION of diseases of the ear, nose or throat.
Compendex is a comprehensive database of scientific and technical engineering literature and includes citations/abstracts to peer-reviewed journal articles and conference abstracts.
CINAHL is a comprehensive resource for nursing and allied health literature (audiology and speech-language pathology), and includes books, dissertations, conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, and audiovisuals.
(Olin database) Dissertation and Theses is a comprehensive database of dissertations and theses, worldwide, and is the official dissertation archives for the Library of Congress.
Embase is a up-to-date database covering international biomedical literature from 1947 to the present day and contains over 32 million indexed records, more than 8,500 currently indexed peer-reviewed journals, and over two million conference abstracts. Access restricted to WUSM.
ERIC contains over 850,000 annotated references to journal articles appearing in the monthly Current Index to Journals in Education, and material published in the monthly Resources in Education.
Google Scholar is a publicly available resource of scholarly literature including citations/abstracts to peer-reviewed journal articles, dissertations, books, patents and conference abstracts from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
Google Scholar is freely available; however, all the content it points to is not. If you are on a campus network or access Google Scholar through our site while logged in to our proxy, you will automatically see links to full text from our libraries.
HAPI features material on unpublished information-gathering tools for clinicians that are discussed in journal articles, such as questionnaires, interview schedules, and tests used for speech and hearing therapy.
MedlinePlus contains authoritative information from NLM, NIH, and other government agencies, and contains extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and the latest health news.
APA PyscInfo contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. Previously know as PsycINFO in 2020 the name was changed to APA PsycInfo.
PubMed is a free resource supporting the search and retrieval of biomedical and life sciences literature with the aim of improving health–both globally and personally. Citations in PubMed primarily stem from the biomedicine and health fields, and related disciplines such as life sciences, behavioral sciences, chemical sciences, and bioengineering.
The PubMed database contains more than 36 million citations and abstracts of biomedical literature. It does not include full text journal articles; however, links to the full text are often present when available from other sources, such as the publisher's website or PubMed Central (PMC). To see and use the Get it@Becker button to test for full text at Becker, use PubMed links from the Library's website.
SCOPUS is a large bibliographic database of scientific, technical, medical and social sciences literature and includes abstracts to conference proceedings, trade publications, books and patents.
SCOPUS provides evidence of collaboration with other scientists and organizations, publication productivity, cited-by works, the h-index and tools for creating citation graphs. Scopus also offers a Citation Tracker feature that allows for a listing of articles, web sources and patents that cite a publication since 1996. The Citation Tracker feature also allows for generation of a Citation Overview chart and for removal of self-citations from the overall citation counts.
Trip is a freely available search engine that serves as a clinical search tool designed to allow health professionals to rapidly identify the highest quality clinical evidence for clinical practice. Trip allows for filtering of searches by a color-coded hierarchy of evidence.
The Web of Science Core Collection is on Web of Science, a comprehensive research platform that allows access to and concurrent searching of multiple databases. Find training materials here: Web of Science Platform Training resources
WorldCat is a catalog which itemizes the collections of 72,000 libraries in 170 countries and territories which participate in the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) global cooperative. It is built and maintained collectively by the participating libraries. It contains over 36 million records, including manuscripts written as early as the 11th century.