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A-Z List of Licensed Databases available to EVMS users Additional freely available databases are under "By Discipline."
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ACP Journal Club
ACP Medicine
ACP PIER
American Hospital Directory
Cochrane Library
Current Index to Statistics
DynaMed
Encyclopedia Britannica
ERIC (through OVID)
Exam Master Online
Expanded Academic ASAP (InfoTrac)
Faculty Publications
FirstSearch
HarpWeek
MathSciNet
MDConsult
MEDLINE (through Ovid)
MLA International Bibliography
Oxford English Dictionary
PsycINFO (through OVID)
PubMed
PubMed LinkOut FAQ
Select WorldCat database
STAT!Ref
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Primary Research
Evidence Based Medicine
Clinical Point-of-Care
Practice Guidelines
Consumer Health
Statistical Sources
Human Genome
Computational Molecular Biology
Primary Research
ERIC (through OVID)
MEDLINE (through Ovid)
PsycINFO (through OVID)
PubMed
PubMed LinkOut FAQ
Evidence Based Medicine
ACP Journal Club
ACP Medicine
ACP PIER
Bandolier
BestBETs (Best Evidence Topics)
Cochrane Library
DARE Database
DynaMed
OTSeeker (Occupational Therapy)
PEDro (Physiotherapy)
PubMed Clinical Queries
SumSearch
TRIP Database
Clinical "Point-of-Care" (brief synopses of best evidence)
ACP Pier
DynaMed
Griffith 's 5-Minute Clinical Consult - 13th Ed. (2005)
Practice Guidelines
National Guideline Clearinghouse
Agency for Health Care Policy Research
HSTAT
CDC Guidelines
Consumer Health
MedlinePlus MedlinePlus, National Library of Medicine’s and the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) consumer health database featuring extensive information from trusted sources on over 700 diseases and conditions.
Medical Library Association's Top Ten Web Sites The Medical Library Association (MLA) has identified ten particularly useful Web sites.
CAPHIS The Consumer and Patient Health Section (CAPHIS) of the Medical Library Association (MLA) has selected their top 100 consumer health Web sites.
Healthfinder Since 1997, healthfinder® has been recognized as a key resource for finding the best government and nonprofit health and human services information on the Internet. It comes from the US Department of Health and Human Services.
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Statistical Sources
Current Index to Statistics
Human Genome Sources
Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) A guide to genes and inherited disorders.
Entrez Gene A comprehensive database of genes and associated information.
Map Viewer An interactive viewer for physical and genetic maps, genomic sequence, genes, and other genome annotations.
Clone Registry Genomic clones and libraries, including sequence data, genomic position, and distributor information.
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Computational Molecular Biology Sources
BLAST® A sequence similarity tool.
GenBank® A database of nucleotide sequences.
Molecular Structure and Function A database of macromolecular 3D structures, as well as tools for their visualization and comparative analysis.
Taxonomy Database A database of taxonomic names of lineages of organisms represented in NCBI's sequence databases.
Conserved Domain Database (CDD) A database to identify the conserved domains present in a protein sequence.
Reference Sequences (RefSeq) A collection of reference sequences for genomes, gene transcripts, and proteins.
UniGene Automatic partitioned of gene transcripts and proteins.
Vector Alignment Search Tool (VAST) Similarity searches of protein structure.
Database Information and Tutorials
EVMS network account holders can access these resources from on-campus through a link on the main Library Web page.
EVMS network account holders can access them from off-campus via the EVMS proxy server.
If you have questions about these resources, please contact the Library (446-5851) or email the Information Desk (library@evms.edu).
For training information, call April Pace, Education Coordinator, at 446-5846.
ACP Journal Club EVMS resourceDescription: ACP Journal Club (ACPJC) is an evidence based surveillance and abstracting service published by the American College of Physicians (ACP). It contains structured abstracts that summarize the most important methodologically sound articles pertaining to clinical practice.Search: Uses 'full-text' search techniques (the database will look for search terms in the article text and title) to find abstracts. Indexed articles provide links to the PubMed record and are available in full-text. The Basic Search function allows you to enter key terms and phrases that will be searched against the ACPJC collection. The Advance Search function provides a search template that allows the use of Boolean logic (AND/OR/NOT/NEAR) to combine search terms and search like terms. Click on the SEARCH button in the tool bar at the top of the page. The default is the Basic Search. Search results are displayed by the title of the article. Click on the title and the full-text will be displayed.Scope: Primary and secondary (reviews and guidelines) clinical studies that meet key methodological criteria are summarized and commented on by experts. Covers internal medicine and primary care.Use: Best used for questions that can be addressed using clinical research, strongest for therapy and prognosis, weaker for diagnosis and causation. (Foreground Questions)Validity: Articles are selected if they report evidence that could change what practitioners do. Explicit methods of selecting and summarizing articles are described in the introduction.Applicability: Each abstract summarizes details about patients, practitioners and practices; experts comment on clinical relevance.Currency: Publishing began in 1991. Six issues per year.More: EVMS associates can access ACP Journal Club through the Electronic Journals Page.
ACP Medicine EVMS resourceDescription: ACP Medicine is an evidence-based internal medicine diagnosis and treatment reference. Developed from WebMD® Scientific American® Medicine, ACP Medicine is continually updated and is available in several print and electronic formats.Search: ACP Medicine is designed to allow the user to browse by topic or use a keyword search function. ACP Medicine provides 'full-text' search techniques (the database will look for search terms in the article text and title).Scope: Covers the 15 subspecialties of internal medicine, plus key topics in Women's Health, Preventive Medicine, Psychiatry, and more.Use: Organized by health condition and disease. ACP Medicine provides in-depth coverage of topics. It is an excellent source for Background Questions.Validity: Content is subject to editorial, peer and user review.Applicability: Narrative summaries of conditions including sections on epidemiology.Currency:. Updates are ongoing and occur frequently. Over 30% new content per year.More: EVMS associates can access ACP Medicine from STAT!Ref.
ACP PIER EVMS resourceDescription: PIER© is an evidence-based guidance tool designed to improve clinical care at the point of care. PIER© is a product of ACP, The American College of Physicians. It integrates and builds on other ACP-ASIM publications including ACP Journal Club and MKSAP. Content derives from evidence-based synopses of the literature on a condition or disease.Search: PIER is designed to allow the user to browse by topic or use a keyword search function. PIER provides 'full-text' search techniques (the database will look for search terms in the article text and title).Scope: PIER© is a collection of disease modules that can be searched, found alphabetically or browsed by organ system. Subcategories for each disease are: Prevention, Screening, Diagnosis, Consultation for Diagnosis, Hospitalization, Non-drug Therapy, Drug Therapy, Patient Education, Consultation for Management, and Follow-up. Additional topics are addressed under Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Ethical and Legal Issues and Procedures.Use: Organized by health condition and disease, optimized for quick review of disease management. Most complete for prevention, diagnosis and therapy. (Background Questions)Validity: Content is subject to editorial, peer and user review, relies on sources (e.g., ACP Journal Club) for much of the filtering and appraisal of validity.Applicability: Quick access to lists of key points in disease management. Guidelines are given for application to patient care.Currency: Publishing began in 2002. Updates are ongoing and occur frequently.More: EVMS associates can access ACP PIER from STAT!Ref.
American Hospital Directory EVMS resourceDescription: The American Hospital Directory provides online data for over 6,000 hospitals.Scope: The information about hospitals is built from both public and private sources including Medicare claims data (MedPAR and OPPS), hospital cost reports, and other files obtained from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).Currency: Frequent updates.More: Call (757) 446-5851 for the user name and password.
Bandolier Free resourceDescription: Each month PubMed and the Cochrane Library are searched for systematic reviews and meta-analyses published in the recent past. Those that look remotely interesting are read, and where they are both interesting and make sense, they appear in Bandolier, first in the paper version and, after a few months, on the Web site.Search: The entire site can be searched or topics can be browsed by clicking on the journal issues or topic sections.Scope: The impetus behind Bandolier was to find information about evidence of effectiveness (or lack of it), and put the results forward as simple bullet points of those things that worked and those that did not: a bandolier with bullets. Information comes from systematic reviews, meta-analyses, randomized trials, and from high quality observational studies.Use: Content is limited, but it does have a good training section, with tutorials and essays on EBM principles.Validity: Content is subject to editorial and peer review.Currency: Publishing began in 1994. Updates are ongoing and occur frequently.More: http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/index.html Access to the Web version of Bandolier is free.
BestBETs (Best Evidence Topics) Free resourceDescription: BETs are clinically appraised topics developed in the Emergency Department of Manchester Royal Infirmary, UK, to provide rapid evidence-based answers to real-life clinical questions, using a systematic approach to reviewing the literature.Search: The database can be searched using Boolean operators or browsed by title or topic.Scope: Each Topic answers a carefully worded 3-part question, using a structured approach to finding and reviewing the literature.Use: Although BETs initially had an emergency medicine focus, there are a significant number of BETs covering cardiothoracics, nursing, primary care and pediatrics.Validity: BETs take into account the shortcomings of much current evidence, allowing physicians to make the best of what there is. Currency: Appraised topics provide the initial development date and the date of the latest update.More: www.bestbets.org Access is free.
Cochrane Library EVMS resourceDescription: Cochrane’s Database of Systematic Reviews (DSR) is a collection of high quality systematic reviews of controlled trials, including unpublished trials, produced by groups of collaborators (researchers and practitioners) who are organized through the Cochrane Collaboration. The Cochrane Library includes 7 other databases including: 1) Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE) - critical assessments and structured abstracts of good systematic reviews published elsewhere and 2) Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CCRCT) - bibliographic information on controlled trials.Search: Each database within the Cochrane Library can be searched simultaneously by using the keyword search function provided from the home page. Search results (number of hits) are listed according to specific database. To display search results, click on the number of hits located directly across from the database name. The search browser is not organized by clinical conditions. Articles are indexed according to the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). Search by using the keyword search function for the best results. Most articles are provided in full-text.Scope: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (DSR) includes planned [Protocol] and completed [Review] reviews. The topics reflect the interests and priorities of Cochrane Collaboration members.Use: DSR is best for therapy or preventive care questions that can be addressed by strong quantitative study designs. (Foreground Questions) Does not cover Diagnosis at this time.Validity: Strictly controlled methods for identifying, reviewing, and performing the meta-analysis for evidence in each review. Extensive links to source evidence including studies excluded from the review.Applicability: Systematic reviews often include extensive sub-group analyses and policy considerations. Effect sizes usually expressed as absolute risk reduction and number needed to treat. Cumulative meta-analysis can be displayed for subgroups.Currency: Publishing began in 1993. Updates occur quarterly, the date of last update is given for each review. Substantive changes are highlighted.More: EVMS associates can access the Cochrane Library through the library’s home page.
Current Index to Statistics (CIS) EVMS resourceDescription: CIS is a bibliographic index to publications in statistics, probability, and related fields.Search: Supports keyword, author, title, and journal or book title queries.Scope: References are drawn from 162 core journals (as of 2003) that are fully indexed, non-core journals from which articles are selected that have statistical content, proceedings and edited books, and other sources.Currency: 1975 to present.More: EVMS users can access CIS through the Library's home page.
DARE Free resourceDescription: DARE is a complimentary site produced by the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) that searches a wide spectrum of medical literature including MEDLINE for meta-analyses.Search: DARE has a well developed search function and supports Boolean and field searching.Scope: DARE contains summaries of systematic reviews which have met strict quality criteria. Included reviews have to be about the effects of interventions. Potential reviews are identified by hand searching key medical journals, regular searching of bibliographic databases, and by scanning gray literature and selected Web sites.Use: The database covers a broad range of health and social care topics and can be used for answering questions about the effects of interventions, as well as for developing guidelines and policy making.Validity: In order to ensure quality, CRD has a policy of using two members of staff to independently select reviews for inclusion and to produce each structured abstract.Applicability: Each summary also provides a critical commentary on the quality of the review.Currency: DARE was created by the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination in 1994. It does, however, include records that have an earlier publication date. There are monthly updates to the Web site.More: www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/crddatabases.htm Access to DARE is free. Also available through the Cochrane Library.
DYNAMED EVMS trial through Sept. 1st. Afterward, through EVMS Web site.Description: DynaMed is a clinical reference tool created by physicians for use primarily at the 'point-of-care'. It contains clinically-organized summaries for nearly 2,000 topics.Search: The database can be searched by keyword or browsed by condition or category.Scope: Editors monitor the content of over 400 medical journals and systematic evidence review databases.Use: “Point-of-care” resource covering risk factors, diagnosis, treatment, prevention, prognosis, and patient information.Validity: Each publication is reviewed cover-to-cover, and each article is evaluated for clinical relevance and scientific validity. The new evidence is then integrated with existing content, and overall conclusions are changed as appropriate representing a synthesis of the best available evidence. Through this process of systematic literature surveillance, the best available evidence determines the content of DynaMed.Currency: DynaMed is updated dailyMore: EVMS users can access DynaMed through the Library's home page.ERIC (OVID) EVMS resourceDescription: The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a digital library of education-related resources, sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education. ERIC is the world's largest database of journal and non-journal education literature containing nearly 1.2 million citations going back to 1966.Search: OVID TutorialScope: ERIC consists of two files: Resources in Education, which covers the document literature, consisting of research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, and books; and Current Index to Journals in Education, which covers published journal literature from over 775 periodicals.Currency: Over 30,000 records added annually.More: EVMS users can access ERIC through the Library's home page.
EXAM MASTER ONLINE EVMS resourceDescription: EXAM MASTER ONLINE is an USMLE and board preparation review tool that provides access to thousands of basic and clinical sciences questions. The interface allows for quick and easy navigation, and provides the ability to create customized practice exams and study blocks. The EXAM MASTER testing interface closely matches what is actually used on the USMLE exam. This new test mode interface includes other features found on the exam including the ability to attach notes to each question.
Expanded Academic ASAP (InfoTrac) EVMS resourceDescription: Expanded Academic ASAP provides a combination of abstracts, images, and full text for scholarly and general interest journals covering all academic disciplines.Search: The database can be searched by subject or keyword.Scope: Contains 3,800 indexed and 2,200 full-text titles in a wide variety of disciplines including: social science journals, humanities journals, science and technology journals, medical journals, national news periodicals, general interest magazines, newswires, The New York Times and many others.Currency: 25 years of backfiles to present.More: EVMS users can access InfoTrac through the Library's home page.
Faculty Publications Free EVMS ResourceDescription: The Faculty Publications Database is a searchable catalog of citations to articles, book chapters, and books by EVMS faculty. Citations are selected for inclusion through monthly searches of the biomedical literature and direct submissions by faculty members.Search: The database can be searched using the author name, keyword, periodical title, and publication date (All indexed fields), or by title, abstract, or addresses (all non-indexed fields.) For example, to search for articles published by a particular EVMS department, set the “Field to Search” to All non-indexed fields, and enter the department under “Data to Locate.” The search terms can be combined using the available Boolean operators (and, or, not) located in the first column.Currency: The database includes citations from July 1998 to the present.More: To make submissions, send an email to hornbp@evms.edu.FirstSearch EVMS resourceDescription: FirstSearch is an OCLC services providing access to 20 databases including WorldCat and ArticleFirst.Search: The database supports Boolean (and, or, not) searching and offers basic keyword searching and advanced field searching. Users can also limit a search by database or topic.Scope: FirstSearch offers access to more than 10 million full-text and full-image articles on most research topics.More: EVMS users can access FirstSearch through the Library's home page.
HarpWeek EVMS resourceDescription: HarpWeek is the full text of Harper’s Weekly from 1857 through 1912.More: EVMS users can access HarpWeek through the Library's home page.MathSciNet EVMS resourceDescription: MathSciNet provides access to reviews of the world's current mathematical literature. Other subjects covered include computer science, quantum theory, relativity and gravitational theory, astronomy and astrophysics.Search: The database supports Boolean (and, or, not) searching and offers basic keyword searching and advanced field searching. Scope: 1,799 journals covered; links to 723,084 original articles; 12,145 active reviewers; 457,163 authors indexed.Currency: 47,664 items added in 2006.More: EVMS users can access MathSciNet through the Library's home page.
MDConsult EVMS resourceDescription: MDConsult is a database produced by a joint venture of the leading medical publishers that includes more than 50 full text reference works, over 70 full text key medical journals, 6,500 patient education handouts, 600 peer-reviewed practice guidelines, and full text drug information.Search: MDConsult supports basic and advanced searching. You may search through all sections simultaneously for your topic or limit your search to type of resource. Book and journals titles can also be searched individually.Scope: In addition medical textbooks and journals, MD Consult reports on "Today in Medicine," "What patients are reading", and other sources of current medical information, along with offering CME opportunities.Use: Helpful resource for physicians and other healthcare professionals.Currency: Weekly updates.More: EVMS users can access MDConsult through the Library's home page.MEDLINE (through OVID) EVMS resourceDescription: MEDLINE®, the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) bibliographic database, is the primary source in the United States for information from the biomedical literature, containing over 16 million references to articles from more than 4,800 journals. MEDLINE® is the computerized counterpart of Index Medicus, the Index to Dental Literature, and the International Nursing Index.Search: OVID TutorialScope: MEDLINE® covers basic biomedical research and the clinical sciences since 1966. It also includes nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, allied health, and pre-clinical sciences. The full text of the article is generally not provided, but over 75 percent of the records contain abstracts written by the article's author. The database is international in scope.Use: This version of MEDLINE® (see also PubMed and PubMed LinkOut below) is produced by OVID and identifies which journals are held in the EVMS Library collection. OVID MEDLINE provides full-text links to 140 journals.Currency: Updated daily. Indexed citations to 1966. Un-indexed citations from 1950-1966.More: EVMS users can access MEDLINE through the Library's home page.
MedlinePlus (Consumer Health) Free resourceDescription: MedlinePlus provides information to help answer health questions. MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations.Search: Search tipsScope: Contains extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over 700 diseases and conditions. There are also lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia and a medical dictionary, health information in Spanish, extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to thousands of clinical trials.Currency: MedlinePlus is updated daily.More: http://medlineplus.gov. Access to MedlinePlus is free.MLA International Bibliography (through InfoTrac) EVMS resourceDescription: The MLA International Bibliography is a subject index for books and articles published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. It is produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA).More: EVMS users can access MLA Int. Bib. through the Library's home page.
OTSeeker Free resourceDescription: OTSeeker contains abstracts of systematic reviews and randomized controlled trials relevant to occupational therapy. Search: The database can be searched by keyword or field.Scope: Occupational therapy practice.Use: Use to answer questions about the effects of interventions or treatments.Validity: Trials have been critically appraised and rated to help evaluate their validity and interpretability.Currency: On-going updates.More: www.otseeker.com/ Access to OTSeeker is free.
Oxford English Dictionary EVMS resourceDescription: The Oxford English Dictionary is "the ultimate authority on the English language as well as a history of English speech and thought from its infancy to the present day". It is a unique source of scholarly information on the meaning, history and pronunciation of words both past and present.More: EVMS users can access the OED through the Library's home page.
Pedro: The Physiotherapy Evidence Database Free Description: PEDro is the Physiotherapy Evidence Database. It has been developed to give rapid access to bibliographic details and abstracts of randomized controlled trials, systematic reviews and evidence-based clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy.Search: The database can be searched by keyword or field.Scope: PhysiotherapyUse: Use to answer questions about the effects of interventions or treatments.Validity: Most trials on the database have been rated for quality to help you quickly discriminate between trials which are likely to be valid and interpretable and those which are not.Currency: Updated monthly.More: www.pedro.fhs.usyd.edu.au/ Access to PEDro is free.
PsychBITE Free resourceDescription: PsychBITE™ (Psychological Database for Brain Impairment Treatment Efficacy) is a database that catalogues studies of cognitive, behavioral and other treatments for psychological problems and issues occurring as a consequence of acquired brain impairment (ABI). The types of studies contained on this database are Systematic Reviews, Randomized Controlled Trials (RCT), Non-Randomized Controlled Trials (non-RCT), Case Series (CS), and Single Subject Design (SSD).Search: The database can be searched by keyword or field.Scope: PsychBITE encompasses a range of disciplines including neurology, nursing, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, psychiatry, psychogeriatrics, rehabilitation medicine, social work, and speech pathology obviously, psychology.Use: To enable clinicians and researchers to quickly identify, evaluate and implement evidence-based interventions for psychological issues experienced by people with acquired brain impairment.Validity: Studies are rated for their methodological quality, evaluating various aspects of scientific rigor. Currency: On-going updates.More: http://www.PsycBITE.com Access to PsychBite is free.
PsycINFO ( OVID) EVMS resourceDescription: PsycINFO® is an electronic bibliographic database that provides abstracts and citations to the scholarly literature in the behavioral sciences and mental health. It is the complete American Psychological Association database.Search: OVID TutorialScope: PsycINFO® contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, in the field of psychology and the psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. It includes international material selected from more than 2,000 periodicals written in over 25 languages.Currency: 1800s to the present. Over 100,000 references are added annually through regular updates.More: EVMS users can access PsycINFO through the Library's home page.
PubMed Free ResourceDescription: PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) free version of Medline. It includes the complete Medline database. MEDLINE®, NLM's bibliographic database, is the primary source in the United States for information from the biomedical literature, containing over 16 million references to articles from more than 4,800 journals. MEDLINE® is the computerized counterpart of Index Medicus, the Index to Dental Literature, and the International Nursing Index.Search: PubMed tutorial www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/pubmed.htmlScope: MEDLINE® covers basic biomedical research and the clinical sciences since 1966. It also includes nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, allied health, and pre-clinical sciences. The full text of the article is generally not provided, but over 75 percent of the records contain abstracts written by the article's author. The database is international in scope.Currency: Updated daily. Indexed citations to 1966. Un-indexed citations from 1950-1966.More: EVMS users can access PubMed through the Library's home page or directly at http://pubmed.gov.PubMed LinkOut provides links from Medline citations to EVMS full-text journals. FAQ
See PubMed above.
PubMed: Clinical Queries Free resource (http://pubmed.gov) or (better) through EVMS library for Link-out version of PubMed with links to select full-text.Description: PubMed Clinical Queries offers a user-friendly filtered search approach to the Medline database. Designed for busy practitioners, Clinical Queries is a specialized interface that provides fast, reliable access to clinical studies that are more likely to have strong research methods.Search: Clinical Queries offers four clinical study categories to choose from: therapy, diagnosis, etiology, and prognosis. Searches can also be limited by sensitivity (for broad search results) or specificity (for precise search results). Systematic Reviews only.Scope: Covers evidence-based studies contained within the Medline database of 16 million citations.Use: Best source when searching for recent biomedical journal articles. (Foreground Questions)Validity: Pre-set methodological filters enable the searcher to quickly locate the relevant literature in the four clinical categories. Applicability: Clinical Query includes search filters for therapy, diagnosis, etiology, and prognosis.Currency: Updates are ongoing and occur daily.More: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/clinical.html Free resource.
Select WorldCat database EVMS resourceDescription: WorldCat is a worldwide union catalog created and maintained collectively by more than 9,000 member institutions. Search: Search through FirstSearch (above).Scope: WorldCat-listed resources span thousands of years and nearly every form of human expression. Records exist for everything from stone tablets to electronic books, wax recordings to MP3s, DVDs and Web sites.Use: Use to identify and locate resources by library/ institution.Currency: Updates are on-going.More: EVMS users can access WorldCat through FirstSearch on the Library's home page.
STAT!Ref EVMS resourceDescription: STAT!Ref is an electronic medical library that enables users to cross-search more than 30 medical textbook resources including ACP Pier, ACP Medicine, Harrison's, Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment, Mosby's Drug Consult, and the Griffith 5 Minute Clinical Consult.Search: STAT!Ref allows you to search either an individual book, selected books, or all books. STAT!Ref permits the use of Boolean operators, AND OR NEAR or ADJ, as well as allowing you to select how NEAR (how many words apart) words should be. Online quick guideScope: Full-text medical and drug information for healthcare professionals from medical textbooks.Currency: STAT!Ref contains the latest electronic updates of included textbooks and databases.More: EVMS users can access STAT!Ref through the Library's home page.