LibGuides: UW Medical School at Gonzaga: Finding Articles

Finding Articles

Before getting started searching for journal articles, we recommend you review the Searching Health Sciences Literature guide, which will help guide you through the process of collecting research for a literature review.

Top Medical Databases

APA PsycInfo This link opens in a new window
Contains over two million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books and dissertations, all in the field of psychology, dating as far back as 1840. Materials cover a wide range of psychological topics, including the psychological aspects of related fields, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law.
CINAHL: Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Your key to nursing literature, CINAHL contains health journals, evidence-based care sheets, nursing dissertations, state newsletters, and continuing education modules. CINAHL also supports 17 allied health professions.
Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window
This collection of systematic reviews and protocols summarizes and interprets the results of medical research. It includes:
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials
Cochrane Clinical Answers
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MEDLINE (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
MEDLINE is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's (NLM) largest bibliographic database, containing more than 25 million journal article citations in life sciences, with a concentration on biomedicine and health. MEDLINE includes literature published from 1966 to present, with selected coverage prior to that period. MEDLINE records are indexed using NLM Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). Use this database to search MEDLINE using the EBSCO search interface.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
PubMed is an openly searchable and highly comprehensive database of biomedical literature, providing citations from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text open access content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

Additional Health Sciences Databases

Alt HealthWatch (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Research based focus on complementary, holistic, and integrated approaches to health are provided in this full-text database.
BioMed Central This link opens in a new window
BioMed Central (BMC), a subset of Springer Nature and one of the first and largest open access STEM publishers, provides access to over 300 peer-reviewed journals in a wide variety of fields, including but not limited to biology, medicine, chemistry, and environmental studies.
Biomedical Reference Collection (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
This collection provides access to full-text, indexed and abstracted biomedical research journals covering a broad range of disciplines, including medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine and pre-clinical sciences. Coverage also extends to include structured research evaluating current and past health care systems.
Consumer Health Database (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Includes health journals and magazines covering all aspects of family health, from sports injuries to women's health, from food and nutrition to midwifery, from care to dentistry.
DynaMed This link opens in a new window
DynaMed: written, reviewed, and updated by physicians-provides specific recommendations for patient point-of-care on more than 3,200 topics. First time users must create a personal account with the database.
Health Source-Consumer Edition (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Consumer oriented health databases, including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health publications.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Scholarly full text academic journals focusing on the health sciences, nursing and medicine.
MedicLatina (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
MedicLatina is a Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals published by renowned Latin American medical publishers. This unique database provides access to full text for nearly 140 peer-reviewed medical journals.
Web of Science/Web of Knowledge This link opens in a new window
A multidisciplinary database for leading journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences and sciences. Use this database to identify the number of citations to articles in scholarly journals as well as locating all cited references captured from indexed journals.