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PubMed
PubMed includes over 17 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1949. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
Access
IMPORTANT!!! SPECIAL PUBMED URL FOR UCSF FACULTY & STAFF
To take advantage of the full-text journals available to UCSF faculty & staff only, access PubMed via the URL at the Fishbon Library Quick Links
or from the UCSF Galen digital library
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EMBASE.com
EMBASE.com is an Elsevier Bibliographic Database that provides extensive coverage of pharmacological and biomedical literature; it is the on-line counterpart of Excerpta Medica. Excerpta Medica & EMBASE.com are essentially the European equivalent to Index Medicus & PubMed. There is overlap between the two; EMBASE.com covers more pharmacological journals than PubMed and it includes English and foreign language journals and selected conference proceedings not in PubMed. On-line coverage begins with 1974 and about 500,000 records are added annually.
Access
The Fishbon Library has a limited number of EMBASE passwords that it distributes to selected researchers at Mount Zion. Anyone else interested in an EMBASE search should contact the Fishbon Library (e-mail: fishbon@itsa.ucsf or phone 885-7378) and the librarian will do the search for you. Access to this resource is for UCSF affiliated personnel only.
Tip Sheets
- EMBASE Tip 1
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CINAHL Plus
The Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health (CINAHL) database covers nearly all of the English language nursing and allied health literature. In addition to the journals, it also provides access to books, dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of professional practice, educational software, and audiovisual materials in nursing. On-line coverage is from 1937 to date.
Access
Easily access CINAHL Plus at:
- the Fishbon Library Nursing Resources website: http://mountzion.ucsfmedicalcenter.org/nursing/info_nursing.html or
- the UCSF Galen digital library http://www.library.ucsf.edu/db/cinahl.html
BIOSIS Previews
BIOSIS Previews is a comprehensive reference database for life science research; it has broader coverage than PubMed. Scope includes the entire field of biology, plus medicine, biomedicine, agriculture, pharmacology, ecology, biochemistry, biophysics, bioengineering and biotechnology. Besides indexing about 5,500 journals, the database covers books, meeting abstracts, papers, posters, patents, and more. Coverage for some data types is from 1969- to date.
Access
Access Biosis Previews from the UCSF Galen digital library:
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Resources for Patients
Patients and visitors can learn more about the resources available to them at the Fishbon Library via the HealthWorks website.
Recent MZ Authors
The faculty and researchers at UCSF Mount Zion are quite prolific - view our list of recent articles publApril 22, 2008bstracts.