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A suite of peer-reviewed, open-access journals in all areas of the biological sciences, includes titles such as BMC Biology, BMC Medicine, Malaria and BMC Infectious Disease. Good for finding high-quality, open-access literature on a variety of topics.

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Biosis Citation Index

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Life sciences and biomedical research database covering pre-clinical and experimental research, methods and instrumentation, animal studies, and more.

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BMJ Best Practice

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Evidence-based overviews of medical topics, continually updated. Includes calculators and patient handouts. Create personal account to claim CME credits.

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Exam Prep for Nursing, Advanced Practice Nursing, Medical, and Dentistry.

Use your @usc.edu e-mail address and register as a Nurse/Advance Practice Nurse or Medical Student to gain access.

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Books@Ovid

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eBook collection with access to over 800 major medical and allied health texts and handbooks.

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Locate measurement instruments such as surveys, questionnaires, tests, surveys, coding schemes, checklists, rating scales, vignettes, etc. Scope includes medicine, nursing, public health , psychology, social work, communication, sociology, etc.

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Health Reference Center Academic provides access to medical and professional periodicals, health and fitness magazines, and reference books and pamphlets.

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Latest edition of annual report on trends in health statistics published by the National Center for Health Statistics.

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Search through publicly available data from national agencies. Search through datasets or by topic (community, health, quality, medicare, hospital, inpatient, national or state).

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Consumer health website from the Office of Diesease Prevention and Health Promotion with over 1,400 health topics linking to government and non-profit organizations.

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R2 Digital Library

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Large collection of full-text online books in health sciences disciplines. Many titles allow limited simultaneous users.

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A global registry of research data repositories and contents. This registry can be used to search for a data repository or datasets. Good for identifying data repositories for your own data or finding raw datasets.

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Reaxys

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Find data and full-text articles and patents on chemicals and chemical compounds, including properties, reactions, and structures.

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A searchable international registry indexing the creation, location and growth of open access institutional repositories and their contents. Good for identifying data repositories for your own data or finding raw datasets.

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