Core databases
- ACP Journal ClubConcise evaluative commentaries on original studies and reviews from key clinical journals. By the American College of Physicians (ACP).
- CINAHL - Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health LiteratureKey database in nursing and allied health.
- ClinicalKeyClinicalKey provides access to FirstConsult, top journals, best-selling medical and surgical books, thousands of medical videos, millions of images, and much more content across 12 distinct content types.
- Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL)Citations to controlled trials identified by the contributors of the Cochrane Collaboration.
- Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR)Full-text access to regularly updated systematic reviews by the Cochrane Collaboration. Includes completed systematic reviews and review protocols in development.
- Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE)The collection of reviews of reviews provides critical assessments of systematic reviews. It was produced by the UK National Health Services' Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (NHS CRD) between 1994 and March 2015.
- EBM Reviews (Ovid)One-stop searching of 7 evidence-based medicine databases in the Cochrane Library.
- EMBASE (Ovid)International (but European-focused) biomedical database with strengths in drug-related and rehabilitation sciences subjects.
- Journals@OVID - LWWE-journal collection covering medicine, nursing, rehabilitation sciences and dentistry.
- MEDLINE (Ovid)Premier biomedical database with over 30 million journal articles in the life sciences. Similar to Pubmed in content, this Ovid interface facilitates structured searching and allows editing of search histories.
- PubMed (1946 - present)Premier database containing over 30 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a focus on biomedicine. Freely available and includes MEDLINE. This link goes to the version with UBC elink.
- Web of Science Core CollectionMultidisciplinary database of journal articles and conference proceedings, used for citation analysis of research. Includes access to EndNote Basic, a web-based version of EndNote.
Free sites
- BioMed CentralBioMed Central publishes 244 peer-reviewed open access journals. UBC Library pays for a Supporters Membership which entitles UBC authors to a 15% discount on the article-processing charge.
- Public Library of Science (PLOS)Access to PLOS Open Access journals: PLOS One, PLOS Biology, PLOS Medicine, PLOS Genetics, PLOS Computational Biology, PLOS Pathogens, PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases.
- PubMed CentralPMC is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).