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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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  • Health Sciences ,
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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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  • Nursing
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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  • Psychology ,
  • Public Health ,
  • Social Work
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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  • Statistics & Data
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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JAMAEvidence

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Collection of resources to teach and promote evidence based medicine. Textbooks, glossary, worksheets, and education worksheets.

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Evidence-based practice database with a global focus. Find systematic reviews, protocols, recommended practices, evidence summaries, best practice and consumer information sheets, and technical Reports.

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Ovid provides access to biomedical databases and full-text journals. Databases include MEDLINE, International Pharmaceutical Abstracts, EBM Reviews, AIDSLINE, CancerLit, BioEthicsLine, Health and Psychosocial Instruments, HealthSTAR and Journals@Ovid.

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Ovid MEDLINE covers the international literature on biomedicine, including the allied health fields and the biological and physical sciences, humanities, and information science as they relate to medicine and health care. Information is indexed from approximately 3,900 journals published world-wide.

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