PubMed
was developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information
(NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), located at
the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It was developed in
conjunction with publishers of biomedical literature as a search
tool for accessing literature citations and linking to full-text
journals at Web sites of participating publishers.
Publishers
participating in PubMed electronically supply NLM with their
citations prior to or at the time of publication. If the publisher
has a Web site that offers full text of its journals, PubMed
provides links to that site, as well as sites to other biological
data, sequence centers, etc. User registration, a subscription
fee, or some other type of fee may be required to access the
full-text of articles in some journals.
PubMed
also provides access to PubRef, a service designed to expand
the bibliographic linking feature in PubMed, and facilitate
linking to a broader set of scientific journals and full-text
of articles at publishers' web sites.
PubMed provides access to bibliographic information, which is
drawn primarily from MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE, HealthSTAR, as well
as Publisher-Supplied citations. In addition, for electronically
supplied journals that are indexed selectively for MEDLINE,
and include articles unrelated to medicine or the life sciences,
PubMed includes all articles from that journal, not just those
that are included in MEDLINE. It is expected that access to
additional NLM databases will be added in the future.
PubMed also provides access and links to the integrated molecular
biology databases included in NCBI's Entrez retrieval system.
These databases contain DNA and protein sequences, 3-D protein
structure data, population study data sets, and assemblies of
complete genomes in an integrated system.
MEDLINE is the NLM's premier bibliographic database covering
the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine,
the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. MEDLINE
contains bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more
than 4,000 biomedical journals published in the United States
and 70 other countries. The file contains over 10 million citations
dating back to 1966 to the present. Coverage is worldwide, but
most records are from English-language sources or have English
abstracts.
Loansome
Doc allows users to order full-text copies of articles from
a medical library. Please call our Library at (715) 847-2184
for our Library ID number to register to use this service. PubMed
provides document ordering only from the Clipboard. Select citations,
click on Add to Clipboard, then click on Clipboard to use the
Order button. The full-text of articles for some journals are
available via a link to the publisher's Web site from the PubMed
Abstract or Citation display. If you see "LinkOut"
on a citation, click on this feature for additional options.
CINAHL
is the Cumulative Index for Nursing and Allied Health Literature.
The company has been indexing for over 40 years and is recognized
as being an expert in this field. CINAHL indexes articles from
over 1,200 journals, and has full text articles from 17 journals
online.
SOURCES: Journals, Accreditation, Clinical Innovations, Conferences,
Critical Paths, Legal Cases, Nurse Practice Acts, Practice Acts,
Research Instruments, Standards of Practice from the field of
nursing and 17 allied healthcare professionals. The index also
includes audiovisual materials, educational software and computer
programs.
The
core of MD Consult is clinical content. 52 of the world's best
medical journals and Clinics. Over 35 renowned reference books.
Over 600 clinical practice guidelines. Nearly 3,000 customizable
patient education handouts. Drug information for more than 30,000
medications. Training is offered on each of these sections.
STAT!Ref
lets you cross-search more than 25 medical and drug texts including
Stedman's Medical Dictionary and popular texts from McGraw Hill,
Mosby, Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins and more. Our library
subscribes to the Drug Information - AHFS, USP DI Professional
and USP DI Patient and offers training on these databases.
BadgerLink
is a project of the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
(DPI), Division for Libraries and Community Learning. Its goal
is to provide Wisconsin residents with increased access to information
resources in cooperation with the state's public, school, academic,
and special libraries.
BadgerLink
provides access to a variety of information resources directly
from the BadgerLink Web page. A major resource allows access
to over 4,000 magazines, newspapers, and other reference materialsmany
in full-text. Also available from the BadgerLink Web site is
WISCAT, the statewide library catalog. WISCAT has cataloging
information on 6.5 million titles and lists 30 million holdings
from 1,265 contributing libraries. Another content resource
is the Library Resource List, with links to over 500 other Web
sites of interest in the areas of general reference, government,
library technology, library Web sites and information on the
library profession. BadgerLink includes pointers to the Wisconsin
library directory and to a list of state library Web sites.
The
Advisory Board is established on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
The original business purpose is to conduct research on any question
for any company in any industry.
The mission of the Advisory Board Company is to provide strategic
coherence and direction by discerning the underlying forces
driving major change and to communicate those insights with
force and clarity such that members are able and predisposed
to carry them more broadly into their worlds.
The
University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC) is a member-driven
alliance of the clinical enterprises of academic health centers
(AHCs). While focusing on the clinical mission, UHC is mindful
of and supports the research and education missions of AHCs.
Its mission is to advance knowledge, foster collaboration, and
promote change to help members compete in their respective health
care markets. As an idea-generating and information-disseminating
enterprise, UHC helps members pool resources, create economies
of scale, improve clinical and operating efficiencies, and influence
the direction and delivery of health care.
Since
1978, Scientific American Medicine has brought to physicians
and healthcare personnel current, comprehensive, and complete
medical information, covering all 15 subspecialties of internal
medicine. SAM is updated monthly. SAM is led by a superb Editorial
Board and authored by over 140 leading expert physicians. There
are more than 2,000 color graphics and illustrations.
The
Cochrane Library is an electronic publication designed to supply
high quality evidence to inform people providing and receiving
care, and those responsible for research, teaching, funding
and administration at all levels.
Cochrane reviews are reviews mainly of randomised controlled
trials. Evidence is included or excluded on the basis of explicit
quality criteria to minimise bias. Data are often combined statistically,
with meta-analysis, to increase the power of the findings of
numerous studies each too small to produce reliable results
individually. Publishing systematic reviews in an electronic
form has great advantages over more traditional methods: the
reviews can be updated as new evidence emerges and mistakes
can be corrected in response to comments and criticisms. The
review thereby continues to be the best single place where a
distillation of the latest evidence is easily accessible.
DARE
includes structured abstracts of systematic reviews from around
the world, which have been critically appraised by reviewers
at the NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination at the University
of York,
England.
The
TRIP database is an amalgamation of 26 databases of hyperlinks
from Evidence-based sites around the world. At present
there are over 10,000 links to evidence based topics. CeReS
has provided a simple search mechanism to the TRIP database.
CeReS is committed to supporting research in the primary health
care field in Wales..
(Center for Research Support).
Advisory
Board Contacts
(202) 672-5600
Member Services Contact - Jodi Douglas
Research Manager - Lisa Long
Nursing Executive Center - Olivia Wilkinson
Oncology Roundtable - Susi Mauk
Cardiology Roundtable- Elliot Bates
UHCNet
Contacts
Mary Rackow (630) 954-4725 (or email the webmaster)
Password Problems - Jane Muth (630) 954-1283
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