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Bandolier collects good quality evidence under a variety of different headings. They search for systematic reviews of treatments, of evidence about diagnosis, epidemiology or health economics, and abstract it.

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Brief and structured evidence appraisal and summaries specific to emergency medicine.

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The Big Picture Book of Viruses is intended to serve as both a catalog of virus pictures on the Internet and as an educational resource to those seeking more information about viruses.

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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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Archive of California's legislative information for dates 1993 to the present. Files available by using the Downloadable Database.

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A listing of open access data repositories in all subject areas with a concentration on the sciences. Good for identifying data repositories for your own data or finding raw datasets.

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A collection of legal tools and information for providing and using open data including sample open data commons licenses. This is good for when you have questions about sharing any of your datasets.

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Online access to health news, health policies, health statistics, and other reports from around the world. Topics include quality of care, spending, value for money, financial sustainability, economics of prevention and public health, and pharmaceuticals

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2,500 prints, photographs, drawings, posters, and cartoons on the history of medicine from the 17th to 20th centuries, hosted by McGill University Library.

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This database indexes therapy outcome information, published in peer-reviewed journals. Requires AOTA membership.

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This database contains abstracts of systematic reviews and randomized controlled trials relevant to occupational therapy. Trials have been critically appraised to assist with evaluation.

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Oxford Clinical Psychology provides full-text access to over 200 titles in Oxford's global clinical psychology publishing program in an integrated online service covering a broad range of specialty areas, disorders, and treatment modalities.

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Web of Science

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Interdisciplinary collection of journal articles, conference proceedings, and books. Collection of seven online database: Conference Proceedings Citation Index, Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Index Chemicus, Current Chemical Reactions, and Book Citation Index. Coverage is 1900-present.

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The Arabic manuscripts collection of the Wellcome Library (London) comprises around 1000 manuscript books and fragments relating to the history of medicine.

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Images from British Wellcome Museum holdings including historical, contemporary, biomedical, and clinical collections.

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Whole Brain Atlas

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Good resource for CNS imaging combining clinical data with MR, CT, and nuclear medicine images.

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Wiley Online Library

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A multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social sciences, and the humanities. Select "Medicine" from the Browse Column, then the resource of interest from the next menu.

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Authority for health within the United Nations system. Responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, and articulating and promoting evidence-based practices.

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Health-related statistics on an international level. Data is organized around health status and health quality indicators in relation to the World Health Organization's sustainable development and universal health coverage goals.

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Evidence-based guidelines for health policies and clinical interventions that have been approved by the World Health Organization Guidelines Review Committee.

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Mutilateral partnership allows for search of national scientific databases in over 70 participating countries. Includes papers, multimedia, data, and public access content. Search available in Arabic, German, Spanish, French, Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Japanese.

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