UC Library Online Resources

You select a topic and define a personalized journal subset. Then, once a week, you receive: (1) an Amedeo literature newsletter that includes an overview of new articles published in your personal journal subset; and, (2) a link to your updated personal Amedeo web page that displays abstracts extracted from your personal journal subset.

The APS Journal Legacy Archive includes the following journals:

• Advances in Physiology Education: Jun 1989 - Nov 1997
• AJP - Cell Physiology: Jan 1977 - Sept 1997
• AJP - Endocrinology and Metabolism:
• AJP - Endocrinology and Metabolism: Jan 1980 - Sept 1997
• AJP - Endocrinology, Metabolism and Gastrointestinal Physiology: Jan 1977 - Dec 1979
• AJP - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology: Jan 1977 - Sept 1997
• AJP - Heart and Circulatory Physiology: Jan 1977 - Sept 1997
• AJP - Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology: Aug 1989 - Sept 1997
• AJP - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology: Jan 1977 - Sept 1997
• AJP - Renal Physiology: Jan 1977 - Sept 1997
• American Journal of Physiology (APS) - Legacy Content: Jan 1898 - Dec 1976
• Journal of Applied Physiology:
• Journal of Applied Physiology: Jan 1985 - Sept 1997
• Journal of Applied Physiology (1948): July 1948 - Dec 1976
• Journal of Applied Physiology - Respiratory, Environmental and Exercise Physiology: Jan 1977 - Dec 1984
• Journal of Neurophysiology: Jan 1938 - Dec 1996
• News in Physiological Sciences: Feb 1986 - Dec 1997
• Physiology:
• Physiological Reviews: Jan 1921 - Dec 1997

Please note: subscription provides full text access to historic content ending in 1997. Access to full text of 1998-Present is not available.

All research articles are offered in full text at no charge. Review and commentary articles, web reports, image databases and evaluation services are available by subscription.

Subject coverage includes: biology, geriatrics, health services research, medicine, psychiatry, public health, women's health, and many others.

The Cochrane Collection Plus is the most comprehensive collection of databases available from the Cochrane Library and includes:

• Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials
• Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR)
• Cochrane Methodology Register
• Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE)
• Health Technology Assessments (HTA)
• NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED)

Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials is a bibliography of controlled trials identified by contributors to the Cochrane Collaboration and others, as part of an international effort to hand search the world's journals and create an unbiased source of data for systematic reviews. This databaseincludes:

• Reports published in conference proceedings
• Other sources not currently listed in Medline or other bibliographic databases

Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials is updated quarterly.

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The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR) contains full text articles and protocols that focus the effects of healthcare. CDSR reviews are highly structured and systematic:

• Evidence is included or excluded on the basis of explicit quality criteria to minimize bias
• Evidence-based data is often combined statistically (with meta-analysis) to increase the power of the findings of numerous studies, each too small to produce reliable results individually

CDSR is updated quarterly.

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Cochrane Methodology Register (CMR) is a bibliography of publications which report on methods used in the conduct of controlled trials. The database contains studies of methods used in reviews and more general methodological studies which could be relevant to anyone preparing systematic reviews.

CMR is produced by the UK Cochrane Center on behalf of the Cochrane Methodology Review Group.

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Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE) includes abstracts of published systematic reviews on the effects of health care from around the world, which have been critically analyzed according to a high standard of criteria. Reviewers at the NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination at the University of York, England conduct this appraisal. DARE's abstracts include:

• A description of the systematic reviews methodology, results and conclusions
• Access to quality reviews in subjects for which a Cochrane review may not yet exist

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Health Technology Assessments (HTA) database provides details of completed and ongoing health technology assessments (studies of the medical, social, ethical and economic implications of healthcare interventions) from around the world. The aim of the database is to improve the quality of cost-effectiveness of health care. In addition to systematic reviews, HTA contains ongoing and completed research based on trials, questionnaires and economic evaluations.

The HTA database is produced by the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CDR) at the University of York, UK, using information obtained from members of International Network of Agencies for Health Technology Assessment (INAHTA) and other health technology assessments organizations.

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NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED) assists decision makers in the world of professional health care by providing information on the costs and effects of drugs, treatment and procedures. Economic evaluations (the cost-benefit analysis of two or more different medical treatments) from around the world are sysystematically identified, described and appraised for quality while their relative strengths and weaknesses are explored and highlighted.

NHS EED is produced by the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CDR) at the University of York, UK.

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Search all the Cochrane Collection Plus databases combined

Health Reference Center Academic indexes more than 900 titles and provides full text for more than 700 of those titles. In addition, this database offers full text content for 40 nursing and allied health journals. Non-journal content includes:

• consumer health magazines
• newsletters
• pamphlets
• newspaper articles
• topical overviews
• reference e-books

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition indexes over 800 journals and provides full text for over 500 titles (almost 450 are peer-reviewed). Full text titles include:

• Creative Nursing
• Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing
• Journal of Advanced Nursing
• Journal of Clinical Nursing
• Journal of Nursing Management
• Lexi-PAL Drug Guide
• Nursing Ethics
• Nursing Forum
• Nursing Inquiry

Subject coverage includes: medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and others.

Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.

Includes citations from:

• Index Medicus
• International Nursing Index
• Index to Dental Literature

Subject coverage includes: medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and others.

Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.

Includes citations from:

• Index Medicus
• International Nursing Index
• Index to Dental Literature
• HISTLINE
• SPACELINE
• PREMEDLINE
• AIDSLINE
• BIOETHICSLINE
• HealthSTAR

ProQuest Healthcare Administration combines full text coverage for over 550 journals with more than 4500 Doctoral Dissertations and Theses. Subject coverage includes:

• Hospitals
• Insurance
• Law
• Statistics
• Business management
• Personnel management
• Ethics
• Health economics
• Public health administration

Additionally, ProQuest Psychology Journals includes 4,000 full text dissertations representing a range of psychology disciplines including behavioral, clinical, cognitive, developmental, experimental, industrial, personality, physiological, psychobiology, psychometrics and social psychology. Dissertation content is available for the years spanning 2000 through 2005.

Full text articles include charts, diagrams, graphs, tables, photos, and other graphical elements.

Produced by the American Psychological Association (APA), PsycINFO indexes and abstracts articles, book chapters, books and dissertations from the 1800s to present.

PsycARTICLES is the authoritative source for full text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in general psychology as well as specialized, applied, clinical and theoretical research.

The full text coverage for 59 journal titles (48 APA titles and 11 allied associations) includes all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata. Coverage of full text titles span 1985 to present.

The database also includes information about the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and others.

PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals.

PubMed provides access to bibliographic information that includes MEDLINE, OLDMEDLINE, as well as:

• Out-of-scope citations (e.g., articles on plate tectonics or astrophysics) from certain MEDLINE journals, primarily general science and chemistry journals, for which the life sciences articles are indexed for MEDLINE
• Citations that precede the date that a journal was selected for MEDLINE indexing
• Some additional life science journals that submit full text to PubMedCentral and receive a qualitative review by NLM

Offered by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), PMC includes full text articles for over 270 peer-reviewed life science journals. Participation by publishers in PMC is voluntary. Participating journals must meet certain editorial and technical standards.

Subject areas include:

• agricultural, biological and earth sciences
• chemistry and biochemistry
• computer science
• economics, econometrics and finance
• engineering, chemical engineering, and materials science
• mathematics
• medicine, nursing and health professions
• physics
• psychology
• social sciences
• veterinary science