Research Medical Library - MD Anderson Cancer Center

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CINAHL Plus
- 1937 - present. - Updated monthly. CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 560 journals indexed in CINAHL. Of those, nearly 400 have cover-to-cover indexing in CINAHL. With more than 600,000 full-text articles dating back to 1937, CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature.
Cochrane Library - Wiley InterScience
- Updated regularly. The Cochrane Library is a unique source of reliable and up-to-date information on the effects of interventions in health care. Published on a quarterly basis, The Cochrane Library is designed to provide information and evidence to support decisions taken in health care and to inform those receiving care. The databases are: The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (Cochrane Reviews); Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE); The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL); The Cochrane Database of Methodology Reviews (Methodology Reviews); Health Technology Assessment Database (HTA); NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED); About The Cochrane Collaboration and the Cochrane Collaborative Review Groups (About)
DynaMed
- Current edition.Dynamed is a clinical reference tool created by physicians for physicians and other health care professionals for use primarily at the 'point-of-care'. With clinically organized summaries for nearly 3,000 topics Dynamed is the only evidence-based reference shown to answer most clinical questions during practice. Dynamed is updated daily and monitory the content of over 500 medical journals and systematic evidence review databases directly and indirectly by using many journal review services. 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.
EMBASE - OVID
- 1947 - present. Updated weekly. EMBASE, the Excerpta Medica database, is an international biomedical and pharmacological database that provides access to up-to-date information about medical and drug-related subjects. Comprehensive inclusion of drug-related information makes EMBASE particularly valuable when carrying out drug-related searches. EMBASE features comprehensive coverage of drug research, Pharmacology, Pharmacy, Human Medicine (Clinical and Experimental), basic biological research, Health Policy and Management, Substance Dependence and Abuse, Psychiatry, Veterinary Science and Biomedical Engineering and Instrumentation.
Journal Citation Reports - Impact Factors
- Updated annually. - Journal Citation Reports is a comprehensive and unique resource that allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from over 7,500 scholarly and technical journals from more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries. It is the only source of citation data on journals, and includes virtually all areas of science, technology, and social sciences.

MEDLINE - Ovid
- 1966 - present. -Updated monthly. Premier source for bibliographic and abstract coverage of biomedical and allied health literature. Includes over 12 millon records and covers more than 4,600 journals. Corresponds in part to the following print indexes: Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing.
MEDLINE - PubMed
- 1966 - present. - Updated monthly. Access through National Library of Medicine. Premier source for bibliographic and abstract coverage of biomedical and allied health literature. Includes over 13 millon records and covers more than 4,800 journals. Corresponds in part to the following print indexes: Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing. The Research Medical Library is now a member of the PubMed Linkout program. This program allows full text of articles from participating publishers to be identifed by the MDA logo which appears when a retrieved citation is available in full text. The full text can then be accessed directly from PubMed.
SCOPUS - Elsevier
- 1960 - present. Updated Daily. Scopus is the world’s largest database of scientific literature. It includes the abstracts and cited references of 28 million records from over 14,000 titles. The publications covered by SCOPUS come primarily from the Life and Health Sciences including 100% of the journals contained in Medline and EmBase (a database known for its coverage of European journals and drug information). Also covered are the areas of Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, and Engineering as well as Biology, Agriculture, and Environmental Sciences.
UpToDate
- UpToDate is a comprehensive evidence-based clinical information resource available to physicians on the internet. UpToDate is designed to get physicians the concise, practical answers they need when they need them the most - at the point of care.
Web of Science
- 1975 - present. Updated weekly. Provides complete bibliographic data plus citations and English-language author abstracts to worldwide literature across a wide range of scientific and technological disciplines. Covers approximately 5,700 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines. Corresponds in part to the print Science Citation Index.

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Arts & Humanities
Biomedical
Business
Chemistry / Pharmacology
Clinical Trials
Conference Abstracts & Proceedings
Consumer Health
Continuing Education
Cooperative Groups
Education
Espanol
Evidence-Based Health Care
Genetics

Grants & Funding
Health Agencies
Information Technology
Journals & Bibliography
Literature, Books & Reading
Newspapers
Nursing
Professional Organizations & Societies
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences
Reference & Encyclopedias
Science & Technology
Statistics & Registries

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The Research Medical Library participates in a cooperative agreement with the Houston Academy of Medicine - Texas Medical Center Library (HAM-TMC Library). This agreement provides MD Anderson faculty and staff with full access to the online database collection of the HAM-TMC Library.

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