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OPTOMETRY AND BIOMEDICAL DATABASES

PubMed

PubMed
Access to citations from MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE, other journals in the field of medicine and life sciences, and links to NCBI's integrated molecular biology databases including nucleotide sequences, protein sequences, 3-D protein structure data, population study data sets, and assemblies of complete genomes in an integrated system.
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PubMed Collection: Inequity in Vision Health and Health Care
A curated collection of articles in PubMed. Many are available free via open access.

Additional biomedical databases

Embase
Indexes journals, including many not in Medline, from over 90 countries, and indexes conference abstracts from many conferences. Broad biomedical scope with strong coverage in drug, pharmaceutical, and toxicological research including economic evaluation.
CINAHL Complete
CINAHL Complete includes articles, books, audiovisuals, standards of care, and more. Indexing over 5,000 journals from 1937 forward, it features PreCINAHL citations and cited references starting with 1985. Over 730 journals are available full text.
TRIP database

BIOLOGY AND NEUROSCIENCE

BIOSIS Previews
Indexes journals, books, and conference proceedings are indexed on a wide variety of biological and biomedical topics. An electronic version to the print counterparts, Biological Abstracts and Biological Abstracts/RRM.

PSYCHOLOGY AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE

PsycINFO
Indexes journals, conference proceedings, books, reports, and dissertations in psychology and enriched with literature from psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work.

GENERAL SCIENCE

Scopus
Contains over 50 million records with more than half the content originating from outside North America. Indexes over 21,000 journals, conference proceedings, trade publications, and book series in the sciences, technology, medicine, arts, and humanities.
Web of Science
Provides links to footnoted citations as well as sources that have subsequently cited an article. Includes the Arts & Humanities Citation Index (from 1975), Science Citation Index (from 1900), and Social Sciences Citation Index (from 1900).
Google Scholar

Lists journal articles, books, preprints, and technical reports in many subject areas (though more specialized article databases may cover any given field more completely). Can be used with UC-eLinks to access the full text of many articles.

MORE DATABASES

COVID-19 Databases

Cochrane COVID-19 Study Register
"The Cochrane COVID-19 Study Register is a freely-available, continually-updated, annotated reference collection of human studies* on COVID-19, including interventional, observational, diagnostic, prognostic, epidemiological, qualitative and economic designs."
COVID-19 Evidence Reviews
From the Veterans Administration Evidence Synthesis Program, a catalog of evidence reviews and reviews in progress from around the world. Search the Evidence Reviews in Progress in addition to the Completed Reviews.
COVID-evidence Database
"COVID-evidence is a continuously updated We provide information about worldwide planned, ongoing, and completed trials on any intervention to treat or prevent SARS-CoV-2-infections." The database must be downloaded before it can be used.
Homeland Security Digital Library COVID-19 Resource Archive
The resource archive includes Federal, State, and Local Policy and Strategy Documents; Congressional Hearings and Legislation; CRS Reports & Issue Briefs and more. Search the collection or browse by topic: Public Health, Prevention, Preparedness, Response, Recovery, Global Health, and National Security.
LitCovid
A curated database of PubMed articles that tracks the latest scientific information about the 2019 novel Coronavirus. One can quickly search by General, Mechanism, Transmission, Diagnosis, Treatment, Prevention, Case Report, and Forecasting.
WHO COVID-19 Global Literature on Coronavirus Disease
"The global literature cited in the WHO COVID-19 database is updated daily (Monday through Friday) from searches of bibliographic databases, hand searching, and the addition of other expert-referred scientific articles."