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Yenepoya Central Library The Handbook of E-Resources Prepared by: Verified by: Dr. K. S. Ali Dr. Mamatha P.K Deputy Librarian Chief Librarian E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Phone no. +91-9686618671 Phone no. +91-9845783853 Extn. no.2067 Extn. no. 5085 Updated on 12-05-2020 Dr. K. S. Ali E-Resources Handbook List of E-Resources Subscribed by Yenepoya (Deemed to be University) Access Details Name Descriptions Discipline User ID credential, Remote Remote Access If any Access URL Links Web of Science is a platform consisting of several Web of Science literature search databases designed to support No Click Here scientific and scholarly research. Multidiscipline Yes The evidence-based clinical decision support UpToDate resource from Wolters Kluwer, is trusted at the Healthcare No Click Here point of care by clinicians worldwide. Professionals Yes Clinical Key supports healthcare professionals and students with the latest evidence across specialities Healthcare Click Here in a variety of formats, including full-text reference Yes Professionals Clinical Key books and journals, point-of-care monographs, drug No information, videos, practice guidelines, customised patient education handouts and more. The BMJ share that global endeavour with millions The BMJ (online) of readers working in clinical practice, research, education, government, and with patients and the Healthcare No Click Here public too. Professionals Yes BMJ Case Reports is an important educational resource offering a high volume of cases in all disciplines so that healthcare professionals, Healthcare Click Here researchers and others can easily find clinically Professionals BMJ Case Report important information on common and rare No conditions. All articles are peer reviewed and copy Yes edited before publication. BMJ Case Reports is not an edition or supplement of the BMJ. 2 Dr. K. S. Ali E-Resources Handbook Research to Publication is an online research methodology and publishing programme BMJ Research to specifically designed for doctors and healthcare Publication researchers. It develops research skills and helps Click Here researchers to get papers published in high-quality Healthcare No journals. Professionals Yes BMJ Standard Collection (online BMJ Online Journals Healthcare No Journals) Yes Click Here EBSCO : MEDLINE Full-text database of biomedical and health Medical and allied Complete journals. healthcare Yes Click Here EBSCO : Dentistry & Full-text research database for dental practitioners Oral Sciences Source and researchers. Dental Yes Click Here EBSCO : CINAHL Plus This comprehensive research database provides full Nursing and allied No Click Here with Full text text for nursing and allied health journals indexed in CINAHL Plus health Yes EBSCO : Sport Discus Physiotherapy database The definitive database for sports and sports Sports medicine Click Here medicine research research Yes McGraw-Hill Medical is a comprehensive online Access Medicine medical resource that provides a complete spectrum No (McGraw-Hill e-Books) of knowledge from the best minds in medicine, Medical and allied with essential information accessible anywhere. Click Here healthcare e-Books Yes The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases Cochrane Library in medicine and other healthcare specialties Healthcare No Yes Click Here provided by Cochrane and other organizations. Medical and allied OVID OVID Online Journals healthcare e- No Yes Journals Click Here 3 Dr. K. S. Ali E-Resources Handbook Medical and allied Thieme Journals healthcare e- No Yes Thieme Online Journals Journals Click Here The South Asia Archive is a new, fully searchable digital archive encompassing millions of pages of South Asia Archive valuable research and teaching materials, providing Multidiscipline No Yes Click Here online access to documents ranging from the mid- 18th to the mid-20th Century. Click Here World eBook Library's Millennium Collection No Yes World eBook Library offers millions of works by the greatest thinkers of the last 1,000 years, works from America, Asia, Multidiscipline Africa, and Europe, in over 300 different languages. Yenepoya In-house Resources Institutional Repository Yenepoya Faculty Publications, Medical and Allied No Yes @Dspace (Digital Theses and Dissertations and Healthcare Library) Previous years Question Papers Click Here E-PAC (Online Public Yenepoya Central Library Books and Journals Medical and Allied No Yes Access Catalogue) Catalogue Healthcare Click Here For More e-resources links and details, please visit to Remote Access Site. Click Here The Individual registration is Click Here The UGC-CARE List (UGC Approved Journals) required to see the indexed journals. If you don’t have an EZproxy Remote Access User ID and Password, please mail to [email protected] 4 Dr. K. S. Ali E-Resources Handbook Open Access e-Resources for Health Science S. No. Title Descriptions URL Links PubMed is a free search engine accessing primarily the MEDLINE Click Here database of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical PubMed topics. The United States National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health maintains the database as part of the Entrez system 1. of information retrieval. PubMed Central (PMC) is a free full-text digital repository that archive Click Here PubMed Central of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National 2. Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM). MEDLINE (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online, Click Here or MEDLARS Online) is a bibliographic database of life sciences and biomedical information. It includes bibliographic information for articles from academic journals covering medicine, nursing, pharmacy, 3. MEDLINE dentistry, veterinary medicine, and health care Click Here MedInd MedIND provides free full text articles published in select Indian Biomedical Journals indexed in IndMED or PubMed. Full Text Journals 4. Available The National Cancer Institute (NCI) coordinates the United States Click Here National Cancer Program and is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which is one of eleven agencies that are part of the U.S. National Cancer Institute Department of Health and Human Services. It gives accurate, up-to-date, comprehensive cancer information from the 5. U.S. government's principal agency for cancer research. Click Here Medscape Medscape is a website providing access to medical information for clinicians; the organization also provides continuing education for 6. physicians and health professionals. 5 Dr. K. S. Ali E-Resources Handbook Medical Books Free. This Website Is Intended To Provide Medical E- Click Here 7. Medicalbooksfree.com books For Free Download By Doctors & Medical Students Over 4000 free medical journals.Daily presentations of new journals. Click Here 8. Free medical journals Free subscription to the journal alerts. Clinical Care Options (CCO) is a premier medical education (CME), Click Here education technologies and medical publishing company. Utilizing its own proprietary technologies and best of breed portal Clinical Care Options (CCO) technology, CCO is focused in specialty areas, including HIV, hepatitis, 9. haematology and oncology. Online learning.Supporting revalidation, checking learning, building Click Here 10. Clinical Skills online evidence for CPD. Easy access to clinical skills. The Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine based in the Nuffield Click Here Department of Primary Care Health Sciences in the University of Oxford is an academic-led centre dedicated to the practice, teaching and CEBM (Centre for Evidence based dissemination of high quality evidence-based medicine to improve 11. Medicine) healthcare in everyday clinical practice. Click Here EBM (Evidence-Based Medicine) Evidence-based medicine is an approach to medical practice intended to optimize decision-making by emphasizing the use of evidence from 12. well-designed and well-conducted research. The Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research (GFMER) Click Here is a non-profit organization established in 2002. It is supported by the Department of Social Affairs of the City of Geneva and other Swiss and international institutions. The Foundation works in close collaboration GFMER (The Geneva Foundation with the World Health Organization (WHO). The overall objectives of for Medical Education and Research) the Foundation are to promote and develop health education and 13. research programs. ACP Journal Club summarizes the best new evidence for internal Click Here 14. ACP Journal Club medicine from over 120 clinical journals. Click Here E-medicine by Medscape Medscape is the leading online global destination for physicians and healthcare professionals worldwide, offering the latest medical news and expert perspectives; essential point-of-care drug and disease 15. information; and relevant professional education and CME. 6 Dr. K. S. Ali E-Resources Handbook Click Here MedEd Portal, Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) MedEd PORTAL is a MEDLINE-indexed, open-access journal of teaching and learning resources in the health professions published by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), in partnership 16. with the American Dental Education Association. Click Here End of Life/Palliative Education The EPERC shares educational resource material among the community 17. Resource Center (EPERC) of health professional educators involved in palliative care education. Click Here The Health Education Assets
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