Bibliographic Databases

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Cochrane Library [Off-campus access]   

This is a source of reliable and up-to-date information on the effects of interventions in health care. Provides access to: the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE), Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Cochrane Database of Methodology Reviews, Health Technology Assessment Database, and the NHS Economic Evaluations Database.

PubMed [Free to all]     

NLM's interface to MEDLINE, the premiere database of the health sciences. Includes abstracts and extensive links to the full-text in the Library's collections. Good coverage of Ophthalmology, but does not completely cover Optometric topics.

Scopus [Off-campus access]     

Offers indexing for 14,000 peer-reviewed titles from more than 4,000 international publishers, including many optics and physics titles.

VisionCite [Off-campus access] 

VisionCite is a citation index to the vision science literature compiled by Illinois College of Optometry Library. Similar in purpose to Visionet, VisionCite contains over 175,000 articles. You can log in below.

Visionet [Off-campus access]

"The Visionet database contains bibliographic citations of journal articles, books and slides located in the Southern College of Optometry Library. Subject areas covered include vision science, contact lenses, eye disease, optometry and ophthalmology. The files were begun in 1976 and are current, with weekly updates."

Ovid MEDLINE [Off-campus access]    

An alternative interface to MEDLINE, via the OvidSP database.

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Academic OneFile

[Off-campus access]

Academic OneFile provides extensive full text of peer-reviewed publications in PDF and HTML and links to multimedia sources. A multidisciplinary source of information, with focus on physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects from 1980 - present. Provided by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commisioners.

AgeLine

[Free to all]

"AgeLine abstracts the literature of social gerontology as well as aging-related research from psychology, sociology, social work, economics, public policy, and the health sciences."

Cochrane Library

[Off-campus access]

This is a source of reliable and up-to-date information on the effects of interventions in health care. Provides access to: the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE), Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Cochrane Database of Methodology Reviews, Health Technology Assessment Database, and the NHS Economic Evaluations Database.

The Cochrane Library on Wiley InterScience User Guide

[Free to all]

Provides information on what the Cochrane Library is, and how to use it effectively.

DARE: Database of abstracts of review of effects.

[Free to all]

Centre for Reviews and Dissemination

DARE contains summaries of systematic reviews about the effects of interventions. Each summary also provides a critical commentary on the quality of the review.

DOAJ Article Search

[Free to all]

Directory of Open Access Journals Find articles from over 200 Open Access journals.

EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service

[Off-campus access]

Enables keyword searching of many of the journals to which the library has electronic access.

Educator's Reference Complete

[Off-campus access]

Educator's Reference Complete includes mostly full-text content of more than 1,100 periodicals and 200 reports. Includes content for educators from preschool to college, and every educational specialty, such as technology, bilingual education, health education, and testing, and also focuses on issues in administration, funding and policy. Provided by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commisioners.

eLibrary

[Free to all]

Contains over 2,000 full-text magazines, newspapers, books, and transcripts, plus thousands of maps, pictures, educator-approved websites from Homework Centralª, and audio/video files. Provided by the Boston Regional Library System.

Entrez cross-database search

[Free to all]

Runs single search across all Entrez databases, from PubMed to Cancer Chromosomes -- over 20 in all.

ERIC

[Free to all]

"ERIC is the world's largest source of education information, with more than 1 million abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice."

Expanded Academic ASAP

[Off-campus access]

Expanded Academic ASAP provides access to full text and images of scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers from 1980 to present. This database meets research needs from arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology. Provided by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commisioners.

Gale Databases

[Off-campus access]

Citations and full text from thousands of publications. Broken into sections ranging from "General Reference Center Gold" to "Business and Company ASAP." Sponsored by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.

General OneFile

[Off-campus access]

A multidisciplinary database providing citations and some full text to a broad range of news and periodical titles, including some peer-reviewed journals. Coverage of some titles extends back to 1980. Sponsored by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.

Google Scholar

[Free to all]

"Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web."

Health Reference Center Academic

[Off-campus access]

Designed for nursing and allied health professionals as well as consumer researchers. 800+ health science titles indexed. 600+ titles with full-text availability. Sponsored by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.

Health and Wellness Resource Center

[Off-campus access]

Provides access to carefully compiled and trusted medical reference materials. Includes nearly 400 health/medical journals, numerous reference volumes, over 700 health videos from partner Healthology, Inc., hundreds of pamphlets and health-related articles from 2,200 general interest publications in addition to a broad collection of Gale reference titles. Material contained in this Resource Center is intended for informational purposes only.

HTA: Health Technology Assessment Database

[Free to all]

Centre for Reviews and Dissemination

The HTA database contains information on healthcare technology assessments. The database contains systematic reviews, and ongoing and completed research based on trials, questionnaires and economic evaluations.

HubMed

[Free to all]

Alternative interface for PubMed searching. Includes RSS feeds, bookmarklet tool and more.

JSTOR - Mathematics and Statistics Collections

[Off-campus access]

Full-text access to the backfiles (in many cases back to vol. 1) of a number of the core journals in math and statistics. Access to current issues is delayed by 3-5 years depending on the individual title.

Massachusetts Newsstand

[Off-campus access]

Complete full-text archive of Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Worcester Telegram & Gazette, and other Massachusetts newspapers. Provided by the Boston Regional Library System.

Meva

[Free to all]

"Meva (MEDLINE Evaluator) is a free MEDLINE postprocessor, a medico-scientific data mining web service analyzing bibliographic data returned by an inquiry to PubMed."

MSF Field Research

[Free to all]

Medecins Sans Frontieres [Doctors Without Borders].

Archives MSF's scientific articles and makes them available free, with full text, in a searchable format. No login required.

netLibrary

[Off-campus access]

(Sign-up required to "check-out" books or access system off-campus) netLibrary is a collection of over 3,000 online books covering a wide range of subject areas. There is one copy of each of the eBook titles in the collection, and NECO shares the same set of eBooks with many other libraries in the state. Much like physical books, each eBook can be viewed by only 1 person at a time.

NLM Gateway

[Free to all]

National Library of Medicine

"The NLM Gateway allows users to search in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). The current Gateway searches MEDLINE/PubMed, TOXLINE Special, LOCATORplus, MedlinePlus, ClinicalTrials.gov, DIRLINE, Meeting Abstracts, HSRProj, OMIM, and HSDB."

OAIster

[Free to all]

Find articles and other resources in Open Access repositories from hundreds of institutions.

Ovid MEDLINE

[Off-campus access]

POPLINE

[Free to all]

Published and unpublished lterature in the field of population, family planning, and related health issues.

PubMed

[Free to all]

National Library of Medicine

NLM's interface to MEDLINE, the premiere database of the health sciences. Includes abstracts and extensive links to the full-text in the Library's collections. Good coverage of Ophthalmology, but does not completely cover Optometric topics.

PubMed Online Training

[Free to all]

Provides a general tutorial on PubMed, plus brief instructional videos on searching PubMed and using My NCBI and the MeSH Database.

ReferenceSight Publication Database

[Free to all]

Centre for Contact Lens Research at University of Waterloo

More than 2000 journals indexed on the topics of contact lenses, refractive surgery and external ocular disease.

REHABDATA

[Free to all]

National Rehabilitation Information Center (NARIC)

REHABDATA, produced by the National Rehabilitation Information Center, is the leading literature database on disability and rehabilitation. The database describes over 65,000 documents covering physical, mental, and psychiatric disabilities, independent living, vocational rehabilitation, special education, assistive technology, law, employment, and other issues as they relate to people with disabilities. The collection span 1956 to the present.

Science Resource Center

[Off-campus access]

Includes thousands of topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures and illustrations. The latest scientific developments are covered in articles from over 200 magazines and academic journals and links to quality web sites. The database covers curriculum-related science topics and offers a tool to identify content directly correlated to state and national standards.

Scirus

[Free to all]

Indexes material from a wide range of publisher sources and web sites.

Scitopia.org : Integrating Trusted Science + Technology Research.

[Free to all]

Powered by Deep Web Technologies' Explorit Research Accelerator federated search engine.A federated search portal to the digital libraries of several American and international science and technology societies. More than three million documents, including peer-reviewed journal content and technical conference papers spanning 150 years of science and technology, can be searched through the site.

Scopus

[Off-campus access]

Offers indexing for 14,000 peer-reviewed titles from more than 4,000 international publishers, including many optics and physics titles. Permits citing and cited-by searches, and citation tracking.

Scopus Help

[Free to all]

Provides assistance in conducting a basic search, plus an interactive tutorial.

SRS

[Free to all]

European Bioinformatics Institute

Searches against dozens of U.S. and European biomedical databases.

Trip Database : Turning research into practice

[Off-campus access]

Evidence-based medicine database developed to enable health professionals to find answers to clinical questions.

VisionCite

[Off-campus access]

Compiled by Illinois College of Optometry Library, VisionCite is a citation index to the vision science literature including topics such as contact lenses, optometry, practice management in addition to the treatment and management of eye disease. VisionCite contains citations to over 175,000 articles.

VisionCite Help /

[Free to all]

Dujsik, Gerald.

Provides assistance in searching VisionCite effectively.

Visionet

[Off-campus access]

"The Visionet database contains bibliographic citations of journal articles, books and slides located in the Southern College of Optometry Library. Subject areas covered include vision science, contact lenses, eye disease, optometry and ophthalmology. The files were begun in 1976 and are current, with weekly updates."

WorldCat

[Free to all]

OCLC.

Updated daily. Over 40 million records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 11th century.

XplorMed

[Free to all]

"The XplorMed server allows you to explore a set of abstracts derived from a MEDLINE search... Your interests may be modified by the results obtained, or you may want to enquire new questions as the analysis develops. Also, the results may suggest you additional words that should be used to expand your query in MEDLINE (e.g., unexpected abbreviations of a protein name, or synonyms of a disease)."