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PubMed/MEDLINE The primary database of information in biomedical and health sciences fields.
CINAHL Coverage: (1937 - present) Expanded version of the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature with full text for over 600 journals, plus evidence-based care sheets, legal cases, drug records, and more than 200 books.
Embase Biomedicine and pharmacology citation database (1974 - present) with an international scope. Recommended for use in systematic reviews, and for finding drug and medical device information
Web of Science Multidisciplinary database that is a good place to search for basic science journal articles. Includes citations for conference proceedings as well.
GLOBAL HEALTH on CAB Direct Special public health database with literature on a global scale from both the developed and developing world.
Cochrane Library Database of systematic reviews of the effects of healthcare. Includes Database of Systematic Reviews, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness, Controlled Trials Register, and Review Methodology.
AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access) Options for accessing the National Agricultural Library's comprehensive source of bibliographic citations covering all aspects of agricultural sciences, botany, ecology and related areas.
PsycINFO APA database of Psychology and Psychiatry literature
TRIP (Turning Research into Practice) Database The TRIP Database performs a simple search in more than 60 databases related to evidence-based resources, allowing rapid identification of the highest quality clinical evidence for clinical practice. You can easily restrict your search to a given level of evidence in the hierarchy.
ECRI Guidelines Trust™ This resource provides access to clinical practice guideline briefs and scorecards that provide ratings as to how the guidelines meet the Institute of Medicine (IOM) standards for trustworthiness. The ECRI is the organization that assisted the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) in maintaining the National Guidelines Clearinghouse before it was shut down.
Google Scholar Scholarly literature crawled by Google.

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