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MEDICINE - DATABASES

Databases are excellent sources of good quality information. Below are a range of databases relevant to Medicine.

Please see our guides on tips and tricks for effective searching to help improve your search skills, and Databases for Medicine and Dentistry for guides and demos of individual databases.

  • The Cochrane Library 
    • Top evidence based medicine resource
    • Free full text of good quality Cochrane systematic reviews
    • Abstracts of other systematic reviews and clinical trials
  • Embase
    • Comprehensive journal and conference coverage across biomedicine
    • Contains citations and abstracts of peer-reviewed literature
    • Displays drug information
    • Access to full-text subscription content where available at QMUL Library
  • MEDLINE via PubMed or OVID
    • Database indexing biomedical literature 
    • Contains citations and abstracts of peer-reviewed literature
    • PubMed contains full-text links to open access articles
    • Access to full-text subscription content where available at QMUL Library
  • Psycinfo
    • Covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines, including psychiatry
    • Contains citations and abstracts of peer-reviewed journals as well as books and dissertations
    • Access to full-text subscription content where available at QMUL Library
    • See the Psychology subject pages for more psychology resources
  • Scopus
    • Multi-disciplinary database containing the citations and abstracts of peer-reviewed literature.
    • Lists the number of times a work has been cited in other works and provides direct links to the abstracts of citing works
    • Includes Medline coverage
    • Access to full-text subscription content where available at QMUL Library
  • Web of Science
    • Multi-disciplinary database containing the citations and abstracts of peer-reviewed literature.
    • Lists the number of times a work has been cited in other works and provides direct links to the abstracts of citing works
    • Access to full-text subscription content where available at QMUL Library

The databases listed above are only a small part of the database collections at Queen Mary. You can find the full list of databases available via the Library's A-Z List of Electronic Journals and Databases. If the topic you are studying crosses a number of different subject areas, you may find it useful to check the other for useful resources, contacts, and information.

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