About the Ovid Databases

AMED - Allied and Complementary Medicine

Coverage: 1985 - present Subjects covered include acupuncture, terminal care, symptom control, osteopathy, Chinese medicine, homeopathy, rehabilitation, occupational therapy, chiropractic, holistic treatments, and podiatry. [ more information ]   [Connect]

Biological Abstracts

Coverage: 1969 - present Biological Abstracts is part of BIOSIS Previews (see below).

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BIOSIS Previews

Coverage: 1969 - present, updated monthly. This index covers the biological and medical sciences, including biochemistry, biophysics, biotechnology, botany, environment, microbiology, and zoology.
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CANCERLIT

Coverage: 1983 - present, updated monthly. This international bibliographic database pertains to all aspects of cancer therapy, including experimental and clinical cancer therapy; chemical, viral and other cancer causing agents; mechanisms of carcinogenesis; biochemistry, immunology, and physiology of cancer; and mutagen and growth factor studies.
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CINAHL

Coverage: 1982 - present, updated monthly. CINAHL, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied-Health, has a multidisciplinary scope covering nursing, 17 allied health disciplines, biomedicine, consumer health, health sciences librarianship and selected standards of professional practice.
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Current Contents

Coverage: 1994 - present, updated weekly. Indexes over 7,500 scholarly journals (articles, reviews, letters, notes, and editorials) in all languages and all disciplines -- science, technology, medicine, the social sciences, arts, and the humanities.
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Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI)

Coverage: 1983 - present, updated quarterly. Provides ready access to information on measurement instruments in health fields, psychosocial sciences, management, organizational behavior, and library and information sciences.
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International Pharmaceutical Abstracts

Coverage: 1970 - present, updated monthly. International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (IPA) provides information on all phases of the development and use of drugs and on professional pharmaceutical practice.
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MEDLINE

Coverage: 1966 - present, updated monthly. MEDLINE covers the fields of medicine, public health, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and preclinical sciences.
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Premedline

Coverage: 3-4 weeks more current than MEDLINE, updated daily. PREMEDLINE (PREM), the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) in-process database for MEDLINE, provides basic information and abstracts before a record is indexed with MeSH heading(s)* and added to MEDLINE. * Note that the search default in PREMEDLINE is textword (tw), i.e., term(s) appearing in the title or abstract of a record, because this database does not include MeSH headings.
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EBM Reviews - ACP Journal Club

Coverage: 1991 - present, updated quarterly. The ACP Journal Club Collection consists of two journals ACP Journal Club, a publication of the American College of Physicians, and Evidence-Based Medicine (1995-1999), a joint publication with the British Medical Journal Group.
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EBM Reviews - Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Coverage: 1994 - present, updated quarterly. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews includes the full text of the regularly updated systematic reviews of the effects of healthcare prepared by The Cochrane Collaboration.
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EBM Reviews - Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE)

Coverage: 1994 - present, updated quarterly. DARE is a Full Text database containing critical assessments of systematic reviews from a variety of medical journals.
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EBM Reviews - Cochrane Controlled Trials Register

Coverage: 1994 - present, updated quarterly. CCTR is a bibliographic database of definitive controlled trials. These controlled trials have been identified by the contributors to the Cochrane Collaboration.
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Journals@Ovid Full Text

Coverage: Varies by title; 1993 - present, updated daily. Journals@Ovid is the second generation of Ovid Full Text, which combines all the capabilities of Ovid Full Text Collections, with several important features and functions. This database replaces the Ovid Full Text Collections and includes access to an additional 140 journal titles.
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