Databases, Resources & Tools
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for journals, including full text for peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for many journals, and searchable cited references are provided for many titles.
AccessAnesthesiology merges a collection of medical resources with exclusive procedural videos, customizable curriculum functionality, and powerful search functions, along with tables and charts designed for quick reference. This resource offers multiple tools for certification and recertification in pain management, critical care, and perioperative medicine. Useful for research in anesthesiology.
AccessEmergency Medicine allows users to quickly search the diagnosis and treatment of a broad range of emergency cases with videos. Useful for researchers in emergency medicine.
AccessMedicine is an online resource that provides access to medical textbooks with updated content, images and illustrations, interactive self-assessment, case files, time-saving diagnostic and point-of-care tools. This resource has a comprehensive search platform, and the ability to view from and download content to a mobile device.
AccessObGyn is an online resource covering obstetrics and gynecology. The collection provides access to sonography videos and cases, a growing list of Williams animations, and a library of landmark obstetrics and gynecology references from McGraw-Hill Medical.
AccessPediatrics is an integrated online resource organized around a set of Core Topics developed by an advisory board of pediatricians. The resource provides medical students, pediatric residents, and practicing pediatricians with a broad range of content that covers the entire span of pediatric practice, from neonatology through adolescent medicine.
An integrated online resource that provides medical students, surgical residents, and practicing surgeons with quick answers to surgical inquiries from trusted sources. Organized around the ACGME's (Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education) mandate for a Core Curriculum, AccessSurgery delivers content in context. Useful for researchers in surgery, orthopedics, and rehabilitation.
Acland's (streaming) Video Atlas of Human Anatomy is web-based product that uses fresh, unembalmed specimens, retaining the color, texture, and mobility of the living human body in 3D. A concise synchronized narration runs throughout the program. As each new structure is shown, its name appears on the screen. Footage has been segmented into intervals no longer than 10 minutes and the streaming rate is capped at 250kbs. Features include section exams (free login account), a glossary, and an A-Z index.
Africa-Wide Information (produced by NISC South Africa) combines bibliographic databases from around the world to form a multidisciplinary aggregation offering coverage of all facets of African studies. It includes content from databases such as South African studies, African studies, and African HealthLine (which focuses on all aspects of health relating to Africa and other developing nations). Citations and abstracts date back to the 16th century.
The Amboss platform serves students preparing for their USMLE exams. It includes Learning Cards to test future physicians’ medical knowledge of clinical topics along with a Qbank that covers 15,000+ clinical knowledge areas.
AMED covers journal articles on allied and alternative health. Subjects covered include: acupuncture, homeopathy, hypnosis, chiropractic, osteopathy, rehabilitation, herbalism, holistic treatments, Chinese medicine, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, podiatry. The AMED thesaurus contains over 2,500 terms and is based on MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Produced by the Health Care Information Service of the British Library.
Years of Coverage: 1983 to present.
Virtual anatomy lab developed by faculty at the Yale School of Medicine. Useful for researchers in surgery.
Curated research guide of library tools and databaes for Anesthesiologists.
APA PsycBooks contains scholarly book titles published by the American Psychological Association (APA) from 1953-present, approximately 50 classic books in psychology dating from the early 19th century, and the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology.
APA PsycExtra supplements traditional peer-reviewed journals and books with access to gray literature (such as conference papers, newsletters, patient-oriented fact sheets, standards) in psychology and the behavioral sciences.
APA PsycInfo is produced by the American Psychological Association and contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacoloy, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law.
Coverage: Dating back to the 17th century with extensive coverage from 1800 to the present.
Aquifer offers medical students a collection of interactive virtual patient cases that correlate with the learning objectives of clinical clerkships
The Audio-Digest Foundation offers audio CME and CE courses to physicians and healthcare professionals. MP3 files on many issues pertinent to a variety of specialties are available for you to listen to at your convenience. This is a great way to keep up with current issues in your field.
Bates' Visual Guide to Physical Examination is a teaching resource consisting of anatomy and system specific videos. Each video shows a step by step examination. The database represents a broad spectrum of ages and cultural backgrounds for both patients and clinicians. Includes information on health history, documentation, communication, and, patient/practitioner interactions.
Curated research guide with library tools and databases for bioinformatics.
BIOSIS, the online version of Biological Abstracts and Biological Abstracts- Reports, Reviews, Meetings contains literature references from all of the life sciences including: agriculture, cell biology, nutrition, public health, botany, biochemistry, biophysics, genetics, zoology, psychology. This is the premier database for coverage of botany research.
Years of Coverage: 1926 to present
BMJ Case Reports is a peer-reviewed collection of case articles and reports from many countries in all disciplines that healthcare professionals, researchers, and others can use to easily find clinically important information on common and rare conditions.
Yale University's Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library has created an institutional membership with BMJ for the Case Reports so that researchers at the university and Yale-New Haven Hospital can submit new cases to the journal free of charge. Click here for the submission code.
Books @ Ovid includes the full text, references, updates, and graphics from some of the most respected sources in medicine, nursing, and pharmacology. A searcher can choose to run a search in one text, selected texts, or all texts. Color diagrams, charts, and other textbook illustrations are available as thumbnails or full-sized graphics.
Provides bibliographic and full text content, including indexing and abstracts for scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 and full text journal articles in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. The database full text content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more.
For researchers in healthcare, this database may be useful in identifying quality improvement literature.
CAB Abstracts covers the significant research and development literature in the applied life sciences, including including agriculture, environment, veterinary sciences, applied economics, food science and nutrition. Coverage dates back to 1973.
An online cardiovascular information and educational resource produced by the American College of Cardiology. Cardiosource enables cardiovascular professionals to easily stay up-to-date with the most relevant research findings and best practices, with analysis and commentary by experts in the field to help put the findings in perspective for immediate application in practice. Resources include a comprehensive clinical trials database, news and expert commentaries, clinical images, self-assessment educational materials, the full complement of the ACC clinical guidelines and quality standards and Heart Sounds audio files. Free personal registration is needed for some content and several premium services require an additional fee.
CHEMnetBASE includes several chemical dictionaries, and the CRC handbook of chemistry & physics.
System Requirements:
Adobe Acrobat Reader needed to view full text of articles.
The Child Abuse Atlas provides information to assist health care providers in recognizing the physical signs of child abuse. The Atlas includes examination techniques, evidence-based research and literature reviews, case studies and the ability to add cases. It is a resource for teaching, diagnosis, and all who provide services to children.
You must create an account using your Yale University email address.
Part of the Child Abuse Atlas, this accredited e-learning module was developed by specialist Child Abuse Pediatricians and Emergency Physicians in cooperation with ICMEC, the International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children. It is intended for physicians, registered nurses and other medical professionals who are likely to encounter sex trafficked persons in their practice. Learners will be able to better recognize, respond to, and treat adolescent victims of sex trafficking by completing the module. Content is continuously updated to act as an ongoing reference tool.
Curated research guide of library tools and databases for the Child Study Center.
CINAHL Complete is a comprehensive source of full-text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for many journals indexed in CINAHL. It provides full-text coverage of English-language nursing and allied health journals and publications from well-known associations including the American Occupational Therapy Association and the American Diabetes Association. In addition to full text for top nursing and allied health journals, CINAHL Complete also provides access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, evidence-based care sheet and quick lesson disease overviews, and continuing education modules. CINAHL provides full text for journals in other disciplines including biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and more.
This program explores how the human body develops from a single-cell fertilized egg to the complex set of organ systems seen in the newborn. Clinical cases of congenital malformations or syndromes are used to introduce and highlight key sequences in normal development. Areas of interest can be selected by clinical case, organ system or by the selection of a week along developmental timeline. Clinical Human Embryology contains color figures and tables as well as animations. A quizzing feature is available for each section. Additional information is available through a glossary and reference list.
ClinicalKey is an online resource designed to provide answers to clinical questions. ClinicalKey draws from a collection of clinical resources covering most medical and surgical specialty. This database includes journals, books, practice guidelines, patient education, drug information and MEDLINE citations and abstracts from PubMed.
Mobile App Available
Get mobile CK-ClinicalKey through Apple's App Store or the Android Play Store. An active Internet connection - either WiFi or cellular data - is required to access this content. The application is free, but users MUST register for an account by going to https://www.clinicalkey.com on a computer and clicking on the “Register” link while on the Yale University or Yale-New Haven Hospital network (or using remote access). Download and open the App. When prompted, enter the username and password you just created.
ClinicalKey for Nursing is an online resource featuring timely content covering nearly every nursing specialty. The collection is indexed daily and continues to be updated as new resources are published. This database includes journals, books, disease topic pages, procedures videos, and more.
ClinicalTrials.gov provides patients, their family members, health care professionals, researchers, and the public with easy access to information on publicly and privately supported clinical studies on a wide range of diseases and conditions. The Web site is maintained by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Information on ClinicalTrials.gov is provided and updated by the sponsor or principal investigator of the clinical study. Studies are generally submitted to the Web site (that is, registered) when they begin, and the information on the site is updated throughout the study. In some cases, results of the study are submitted after the study ends. This Web site and database of clinical studies is commonly referred to as a "registry and results database."
Investigators may also register their own trial.
Cochrane Interactive Learning is primarily for authors of systematic reviews following Cochrane methodology. It is useful for both introductory-level learners and more experienced learners who want to refresh and update their knowledge.
Cochrane Interactive Learning helps users gain a more in-depth understanding of the process of conducting a systematic review.
Make sure you are connected to the VPN before visiting.
The Cochrane Library is produced by the Cochrane Collection and is a collection of databases designed to provide high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision making.
The databases included are: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews; Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL); and Cochrane Clinical Answers (CCAs).
MIT CogNet is an electronic community for the cognitive and brain sciences. CogNet brings together current and classic resources in the field and provides services and utilities to enhance research, collaboration and teaching. Full texts of major references works include The MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences, The New Cognitive Neurosciences, Handbook of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, and the Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks. Also included is 400 searchable full text books from MIT Press as well as full text of MIT Press Journals in the field of cognitive and brain sciences. Also includes database access to bibliographic and some abstract information for books, journals, reference works, conference proceedings and grey literature in the field. Users from Yale IP addresses are automatically identified as Yale Guests and have full access to CogNet resources. A user may choose to register in order to create a Curriculum Vitae, bibliography, and notification settings. In the CogNet Library, the full texts of all books and MIT journals are available. For journals not affiliated with MIT, only the abstracts are available for free.
Curated reseach guide with library tools and databases for comparative medicine.
Engineering Village searches Compendex and the Inspec archive. Abstracts and citations for worldwide engineering and technical literature for all engineering disciplines, as well as related fields in science and management.
Other Versions:
Print version: Engineering Index
Years of Coverage: Indexing began in 1980
Covidence
(To use Covidence, contact your medical librarian to open an account.)
Covidence is a web-based tool, used to streamline the tedious task of producing systematic reviews. Covidence facilitates the process of screening articles for inclusion, while complying with the recommended protocols for producing systematic reviews. Covidence also works on mobile devices, allowing users to chip away at screening during small windows of time. At least one member of the research team must be based at Yale, but Covidence allows for seamless collaboration across institutions.
Note: Including a librarian on the research team will improve the quality of the literature search, which is the foundation for a systematic review. Consult our Systematic Review Service page for details.
Current Contents Connect is a current awareness database that provides access to complete tables of contents, bibliographic information, and abstracts from recently published issues of leading scholarly journals, as well as from relevant, evaluated websites.
The Current Protocols series provides details of lab methods, step-by-step techniques useful to molecular biology and protein science investigations. This product contains complete contents of current protocols in: molecular biology, protein science, cell biology, cytometry, human genetics, immunology, neuroscience, nucleic acids chemistry, pharmacology, toxicology, and magnetic resonance imaging, bioinformatics, and more.
Curated research guide of library tools and databases for dentistry.
Curated research guide with library tools and databases for dentistry.
Disability in the Modern World includes primary sources, supporting materials, and archives, along with video. The content covers "not only in the growing disciplines of disability history and disability studies, but also in history, media, the arts, political science, education, and other areas where the contributions of the disability community are typically overlooked."
Curated research guide with library tools and databases for disability studies.
Dissertation and Theses - Full Text (ProQuest) contains entries with information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses. It is the same database as Dissertation Abstracts, but with the significant advantage that titles published since 1997 are available in PDF digital format and have 24 page previews available.
If there is no option to download the full text of a post-1997 dissertation, this means that the author has refused to grant these rights.
Doc.com demonstrates key physician/patient communication skills via video encounters with standardized patients; provides video and text commentary on the interview. These interviews help learners develop sensitivity to differing communication styles and difficult situations, and the flexibility to respond respectfully and skillfully.
REGISTRATION: Each user must register by using their "@yale.edu" email address. Once registered, you will receive an email containing a link you must click on to activate your account.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: multi-media capable computer, pop-up menus must be enabled, newest version of QuickTime must be installed. If problems are encountered with Internet Explorer, please use doc.com with the open-source browser Firefox.
DynaMed provides clinically-oriented, evidence-based summaries written by medical experts for point-of-care use by physicians, medical students, nurses, pharmacists, physical therapists and other health care professionals.
Mobile App Available!
The app provides full offline content to the DynaMed point-of-care resource. The application and data require approximately 1GB free on your device. To start the download process, go to DynaMed , on the Yale or YNHH network and click on the link "Mobile Use - Get the DynaMed Mobile App". Enter your email address and follow the instructions provided in the email you receive. For Android and iOS.
ECRI Guidelines Trust is a publicly available web-based repository of objective, evidence-based clinical practice guideline content. Its purpose is to provide physicians, nurses, other clinical specialties, and members of the healthcare community with up-to-date clinical practices to advance safe and effective patient care. This centralized repository includes evidence-based guidance developed by nationally and internationally recognized medical organizations and medical specialty societies.
eEROS - Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis, a database of over 48000 reactions and approximately 3500 of the most frequently consulted reagents, is searchable by structure and substructure, reagent, reaction type, experimental conditions, and allows for sophisticated full text searches.
System Requirements:You will need to install two plugins to use the structure drawing capability of this database. The plugins can be found by clicking on "getting started" after you connect to the database.
Hosted by Bepress, EliScholar creates a repository for the scholarly output of researchers at Yale University. It promotes dissemination of their work, and preserves it in a freely-accessible, long-term archive. EliScholar allows researchers and other interested readers anywhere in the world to learn about and keep up to date with Yale scholarship. Administered by the Yale Library, EliScholar contains materials selected by participating departments, schools, centers, and institutes at Yale. In addition to individual publication, EliScholar provides a means for publishing open access journals with peer review features and a place to manage conferences and events.
Users have access to materials in EliScholar free of charge. Yale faculty, staff, and graduate students may create an account in EliScholar for their publications.
The Encyclopedia of Life Sciences is a fully searchable collection of articles by scientists and historians in the fields of biochemistry and physiology, cell biology, developmental biology, ecology, evolution, genetics, immunology, molecular biology, neuroscience, microbiology and virology, plant science, structural biology, science and society.
Embase is a tool to access the biomedical literature, including journals indexed in MEDLINE. Embase is particularly useful for drug and pharmaceutical information, but also includes systematic reviews for evidence-based medicine, data sets, literature monitoring, and more.
Curated research guide with library tools and databases for emergency medicine.
EndNote Online is the online component of EndNote desktop. It can be synchronized with the desktop version and shared with other EndNote X7 or X8 users.
LibGuide for Endnote Web and other citation management programs
Video tutorials for Endnote Web (developed in-house by the Medical Library's Instructional Design Librarian, Lei Wang)
ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) is an internet-based database of education research consisting of journal articles, conference papers, technical reports, policy papers and more. It is a service of the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education.
Exam Master Online is a study tool for health science students preparing for board exams. Covering a wide variety of subjects and intended for medical, PA, and nursing students, EMO provides review questions, practice exams, explained answers and more.
The Foundation Directory Online contains information about the largest public and private Foundations in the U.S. and links to Foundation web sites. Both the Foundation and the Grants databases are fully searchable.
Annotated database of genetic sequences maintained by the National Institutes of Health and searched through Entrez.
GENEVESTIGATOR enables analysis of curated transcriptomic data (e.g. RNA-seq, microarray) from public repositories with user-friendly visualization tools. It can be used for hypothesis narrowing and validation for research either on plant or biomedicine. These, by including tools to analyze gene expression in different contexts, biomarker identification, clustering genes into expression modules, and modeling expression responses in the context of metabolic and regulatory networks.
Only email accounts @yale.edu and @ynhh.org will be given access to the Professional version through the Yale University Library.
- Register with your '@yale.edu' or '@ynhh.org' address to create a personal user account.
- Select the domain Biomed or Plant content upon registering.
- Download the app and start using it.
If you are interested in data from both, please contact Rolando Garcia-Milian (Rolando.milian@yale.edu).
A global infectious disease knowledge management tool. It is designed to assist in diagnosing infectious diseases and staying current on the latest trends in epidemiology and treatment. Used for diagnosis and reference in the field of tropical and infectious diseases, epidemiology, microbiology and antimicrobial chemotherapy. Consists of four interactive modules: diagnosis, epidemiology, therapy and microbiology.
Global Health offers information in multiple languages from a wide range of countries on topics such as communicable diseases, tropical diseases, parasitology, human nutrition, public health, and medicinal and poisonous plants.
Use Google Scholar when you want to take advantage of these features:
- broad disciplinary coverage
- a popular relevance ranking algorithm
- Google Scholar citation counts (often higher than analogous numbers in Web of Science and Scopus)
- links to full text -- not only YaleLinks but also through free websites like ResearchGate
- If the YaleLinks link does not appear automatically, set it up in your account with these easy directions.
GQuery is a search and retrieval system that integrates information from databases at NCBI. These databases include nucleotide sequences, protein sequences, macromolecular structures, whole genomes, and MEDLINE, through PubMed.
Free access to thousands of current clinical practice guidelines and guideline summaries.
Health and Psychosocial Instruments provides access to information on measurement instruments such as questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, and coding schemes/manuals in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science. HAPI helps users identify measures needed for research studies, grant proposals, client/patient assessment, class papers/projects, theses/dissertations, and program evaluation.
A curated page containing resources for health statistics.
This collection of specially prepared animated audiovisual presentations with synchronized narration by world leading scientists is keeping researchers informed throughout the world.
This resource is organised into comprehensive series of talks and is regularly expanded and updated. To find talks matching your interests browse the series or use the search facility. To be kept up to date as new series and talks are added to the collection, complete the Keep Me Updated form.
History of Science, Technology & Medicine includes articles, conference proceedings, books, dissertations, serials, maps, and other related materials across a broad set of subjects reflecting the influence of science, technology, and medicine on society and culture throughout time.
Household Products Database, a service of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, allows access to a comprehensive listing of the chemical ingredients, potential acute and chronic health effects, and manufacturers for widely used consumer products.
Health Services/Technology Assessment Texts (HSTAT) is a service of the National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR) at the National Library of Medicine that provides a range of publications (clinical guidelines, consumer health brochures, evidence reports, technology assessments, Reports of the Surgeon General) to provide health information and support healthcare decision-making.
Curated research guide with library tools and databases for searching alternatives to painful procedures used on research animals.
The Incidence and Prevalence Database offers epidemiology-related topics such as disease incidence, prevalence, morbidity, mortality, trends, cost, risk-factors, and disease classifications for both developing and developed nations. This tool is particularly useful for clinical research, product development, market research, and more.
Essential Science Indicators is a compilation of performance statistics and trends extrapolated from counts of articles published in scholarly journals and the citations to those articles. Article counts and citation data are derived from journals indexed in Web of Science Core Collection (Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index only) over a 10-year period.
IndexCat is the online version of the Index-Catalogue of Library of the Surgeon-General’s Office, covering the dates 1880-1961. The interface mimics the printed pages and includes all citations from the original artifact.
Ingenuity Pathway Analysis (IPA) is a web-based software application for the analysis, integration, and interpretation of data derived from ‘omics experiments, such as RNAseq, small RNAseq, microarrays including miRNA and SNP, metabolomics, proteomics, and small-scale experiments that generate gene and chemical lists. IPA's analysis and search tools are intended to help uncover the significance of data and identify new targets or candidate biomarkers within the context of biological system. Data analysis and interpretation with IPA builds on the manually curated content of the Ingenuity Knowledge Base. A set of algorithms identify regulators, relationships, mechanisms, functions, and pathways relevant to changes observed in an analyzed dataset. Especially useful for those in the bioinformatics.
With Ingenuity Variant Analysis you can identify variants and verify them. Find disease-causing variant faster by using 16+ years of expert manual curation of the scientific literature. By indexing all known disease-causing biological processes, IVA can deliver new insights and increased likelihood of homing in on the casual variant you are seeking.
Access to IVA requires a personal account. If this is your first time using the software, please use this form to request a free account. Especially useful for those in the bioinformatics.
Engineering Village searches Compendex and the Inspec archive. Leading database for locating articles on all aspects of physics, astronomy, electronics, engineering and computing.
Other Versions:
Print version available
Years of Coverage: 1890 to present (paper); 1896 to present (online)
Integrity focuses exclusively on pharma and drug development intelligence, harmonizing and integrating essential biological, chemical, and pharmacological data from disparate sources into a single platform. This resource provides easy access to pipeline data, granular target and MOA information, and manually curated data specific to drug development.
Access to Integrity requires an individual user account. Request an account by filling out this form OR Login to Integrity. Useful for bioinformatics.
Curated research guide with library tools and databases for internal medicine.
Journal Citation Reports presents quantifiable statistical data that allows users to determine the relative importance of journals within a field – particularly in science, technology, and social sciences. JCR allows users to compare journals, view trending journals, and find the right journal in which to publish.
Curated research guide with library tools and databases for laboratory medicine.
The Leadership Library is a personnel contact database of the institutional leadership of the United States, integrating 14 "Yellow Book" directories with information on more than 400,000 individuals leading U.S. government, business, professional, and nonprofit organizations.
Curated research guide with library tools and databases for LGBTQI health.
LILACS offers access to the scientific and technical literature of Latin America and the Caribbean. The site is available in multiple languages and covers a variety of information formats, such as journal articles and theses.
Litt’s Drug Eruption and Reaction (D.E.R.M.) Database allows you to search the profiles of generic and trade name drugs, while also providing references that link directly to PubMed. The database is This resource covers adverse reactions from all angles with information on skin, hair, nails, mucosal, cardiovascular, central nervous system, neuromuscular/skeletal, respiratory, gastrointestinal, endocrine/metabolic, hematologic, renal, genitourinary, otic, ocular, local and other. It also identifies potentially hazardous drug-drug interactions.
MDCalc is a provider-centric tool that grants quick access to criteria, scores, and equations to assist in the clinical practice of evidence based medicine. The tool includes writing by physicians as well as options for customization for the mobile application.
The Medical Heritage Library (MHL) is a growing digital collection that promotes free and open access to quality historical resources in medicine. MHL’s goal is to provide the means by which readers and scholars across a multitude of disciplines can examine the interrelated nature of medicine and society, both to inform contemporary medicine and strengthen understanding of the world in which we live.
Compiled by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), MEDLINE is the world's most comprehensive source of life sciences and biomedical bibliographic information. It contains records from different publications from 1965 to present.
Subjects covered include all aspects of clinical medicine (diseases and disorders, diagnostic and therapeutic techniques and equipment), basic biomedical sciences (anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, genetics, microbiology, pharmacology, etc.), the health care system (facilities, manpower, services, administration), dentistry, nursing, and clinical psychology. MEDLINE may be used to find information on diagnosis, etiology, therapy, and prevention of diseases and disorders; on research in basic science fields relating to medicine; and on biomedical technology and its applications. MEDLINE may be searched by author, medical subject heading, or text words from the title or abstract of the article. MEDLINE is produced by the National Library of Medicine (NLM). The Literature Selection Technical Review Committee (LSTRC), an advisory committee of experts chartered by the National Institutes of Health, advises NLM on the journals that should be included in the database. The American Journal of Nursing Company selects and indexes additional nursing journals and the American Dental Association selects and indexes additional dental journals for inclusion in MEDLINE.
Other Versions:
PubMed, a version of MEDLINE
MedOne Neurosurgery is a library of neurosurgical e-books from Thieme Publishers. It also includes a collection of illustrated procedures as well as images and videos. The product has the capability to search the Thieme e-journals and the PubMed database. It also contains step-by-step instructions for core procedures; cases with management and follow-up tips; and images and surgical videos.
MedOne Plastic Surgery, from Thieme Publishers, is a fully searchable database of e-books, step-by-step instructions for core procedures, cases with management and follow-up tips and thousands of images and surgical videos pertinent to the field of plastic surgery.
MedOne Radiology is a comprehensive online reference for all medical imaging specialists. It provides extensive case libraries and diagnostic guidance for those in training, and essential references and procedural guidelines for the qualified specialist in clinical practice.
This platform enables you to browse a variety cases, play videos directly within e-books, find visuals for your presentations, and more.
Medscape Reference offers medical news, expert interpretations of news, point-of-care information, drug and disease information, and opportunities for CME. The resource is also available in mobile application form.
Mental Measurements Yearbook™ (MMY) provides users with a comprehensive guide to contemporary testing instruments. Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership.
MetaCore is a systems biology analysis suite that provides manually-curated interaction, disease association, and other biological knowledge. This information can be used to perform pathway enrichment, network building, target discovery, mechanism of action reconstruction, biomarker identification, sample comparison, patient stratification, and variant analysis. MetaCore displays the results in a graphical and visual way, which allows simultaneous interpretation using built-in analytics for one or more experiments. Especially useful for those in the bioinformatics.
MetaDrug contains curated information on biological effects of small molecule compounds. It is a systems pharmacology solution that combines pharmacogenomics and toxicogenomics as well as predictive capabilities. Every target in MetaDrug comes with protein interactions to explore biological pathways affected by the user’s compounds and network neighborhood of drug targets. OMICs data analysis capabilities provide an additional approach for solving the compound’s mechanisms of action, discovering drug efficacy biomarkers, and corroborating the hypotheses generated by classical structure-based methods.
MetaDrug is available within MetaCore, which requires an individual user account. Request an account by filling out this form OR Login to MetaCore. Useful for bioinformatics.
MetaLib, a service of the Catalog of the U.S. Government Printing Office (CGP), is a federated search engine that searches multiple U.S. Federal government databases, retrieving reports, articles, and citations while providing direct links to selected resources available online.
Morris is the online catalog for the Yale University Law Library. The extensive Law collection is not represented in Orbis. Use Quicksearch to search both Morris and Orbis online catalogs.
Natural Medicines provides resources about thousands of natural medicines, including herbs, dietary supplements, sports supplements, minerals, and vitamins. It was created by the research and editorial staff at the Therapeutic Research Center, a team of pharmacists, physicians, dietitians, and pharmacologists, whose mission it is to provide completely independent and objective analysis of drug therapy information.
NCLEX-RN povides quality review questions covering the four Client Needs areas. Available in both test and study modes, which provide correct and incorrect answers with rationales and new supporting references. Reflects the National Council of State Boards of Nursing's latest test plan.
NetAnatomy is designed to teach human anatomy to students of the health professions, including undergraduate medical, health sciences, and nursing students. Its use in the early years of various residency programs has also been established.
Curated research guide with library tools and databases for neurology.
The Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF) is a dynamic inventory of Web-based neuroscience resources: data, materials, and tools accessible via any computer connected to the Internet. NIF advances neuroscience research by enabling discovery and access to public research data and tools worldwide through an open source, networked environment.
Curated research guide with library tools and databases for neurosurgery.
Nexis Uni is a source for information on U.S. and international companies and executives. Includes print and online journals, television and radio broadcasts, newswires and blogs; local, regional, national and international newspapers; legal sources for federal and state cases and statutes, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions since 1790. This product replaces LexisNexis Academic.
The National Library of Medicine's catalog of books, journals, and audiovisuals and access points to other medical research tools.
NTIS provides data services to federal agencies through joint venture partnerships with the private sector.
NTIS creates NTRL (National Technical Reports Library)
Curated reseach guide with library tools and databases for OBGYN.
OMIM (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man) is a catalog of human genes and genetic disorders. OMIM is authored and edited at the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, under the direction of Dr. Ada Hamosh, and developed for the World Wide Web by the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. The database contains textual information, pictures, and reference information. It also contains copious links to NCBI's Entrez database of MEDLINE articles and sequence information.
Curated research guide with library tools and databases for OMS.
Curated research guide with library tools and databases for orthopaedics and rehabilitation.
Ovid Technologies offers a sophisticated and flexible search interface that allows one to search a variety of databases in a uniform way. Once familiar with the basic features of the interface, searching skills can be applied to the many databases offered through Ovid. Features of this software include: capability of saving searches, an auto alert service (aka SDI), ability to limit results to locally owned titles, links to full-text articles, links to Evidence Based Medicine Reviews, and much more.
Partek Flow software is used for the analysis of next generation sequencing data including RNA, small RNA, and DNA sequencing. It provides a graphical user interface that allows to build your own custom analysis pipelines for alignment, quantification, quality control, statistics, and visualization.
To request an account please complete this registration form. Especially useful for those in the bioinformatics.
The Patient Volume Databases offer access to nationwide patient samples to track activity in various treatment settings. Statistics available may include discharge rates, demographic information, concomitant diagnoses and/or procedures, and drug information. The databases cover a large number of ICD-9 codes, and are also searchable by keyword.
Curated research guide with library tools and databases for pediatrics.
The Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing archive grants access to a comprehensive array of the psychoanalytic literature dating back to the early 1900s. The resource also offers a glossary, working papers users can discuss, and more.
Periodicals Index Online is the new name for Periodicals Contents Index - a database of millions of articles published in the arts, humanities and social sciences, across more than 300 years.
Pharmaprojects lets researchers track the progress of drugs from bench to patient by exploring drug development by global and country development status, and therapeutic class status.
This database covers the progress of new drug candidates as they enter commercial pharmaceutical research and development programs, and tracks their progress from early preclinical development up to market launch, or to discontinuation if a drug fails at any stage.
Researchers can search drugs by chemical structure and other chemical attributes such as molecular weight or logP, or search by biological targets of the drugs. Besides searching the database, users can export data and set up alerts.
Click on the link above to register and create your account using your @yale.edu email.
Curated research guide with library tools and databases for physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech pathology.
Reporting on major policy areas domestically and internationally, PoliticoPro (Politico Pro) provides news, intelligence, connections and tools.
PressReader provides access to thousands of top newspapers and magazines just as they appear in print.
ProQuest Congressional grants access to a variety of American government documents including: hearings (published and unpublished), bills and resolutions, documents, Congressional Record, legislative histories for enacted laws, Congressional Research Service reports, and regulatory materials.
PROTEOME is an ontology query system with specialized tools for gene set analysis and pathway visualization. PROTEOME includes HumanPSD, a catalog of human genes and their mouse and rat orthologs, with focus on the association of human genes, as biomarkers, with diseases and drugs. HumanPSD is complemented by TRANSPATH, a database on mammalian signal transduction and metabolic pathways, and on protein modifications. In addition, PROTEOME contains protein information on molecular function, biological role, expression pattern and physical and regulatory interaction between proteins and genes for a broad range of species including yeast, worm (Caenorhabditis elegans), and various plant organisms.
Key Capabilities
- Explore biologically relevant connections between genes, diseases and drugs
- Map functional attributes to your uploaded gene set or use the Ontology Browser to select defined sets of genes/molecules
- Functional analysis: Identify for your gene set shared attributes (Gene Ontology, Expression pattern, Disease association, etc.)
- Bioknowledge Transfer: Assign predictive functions to uncharacterized protein sequences
- Pathway Visualization: Explore canonical signaling and metabolic pathways or build, based on curated relationships, custom networks, and overlay them with known disease and drug associations
- Network analysis: Identify networks enriched with members of your gene set
Access for database search does not require a personal username and password. But users will need to create a personal account to save data and to use the included tools.
Curated research guide with library tools and databases for psychiatry.
PsycTESTS is produced by the American Psychological Association (APA) and serves as a repository of psychological tests and measures. Thousands of test instruments and test items can be downloaded and used in research and teaching.
Curated research guide with library tools and databases for public health.
PubMed, a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health, is a database of biomedical citations from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed central and publisher sites.
Mobile App Available
PubMed for Handhelds
Qlucore Omics Explorer facilitates a dynamic, visualization-guided analysis of OMICs data, applicable to various phases of a discovery cycle. With Qlucore you can visualize data, perform quality control, apply statistics, and create graphics for publication such as 3D Principal Component Analysis, heat maps, and various 2D plots. Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GESA) and gene ontology (GO) are available for biological exploration. Use public data like The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) to test your ideas or generate/narrow new hypotheses. Especially useful for those in the bioinformatics.
Qualtrics is a web-based tool used to create surveys.
Curated research guide with library tools and databases for radiology and biomedical imaging.
Read by QxMD is a web and mobile application that provides full text access to institutional journals subscriptions via the iPad, iPhone, Android, and web-enabled desktop.
Mobile App
Available through the Apple App Store or the Android Play Store. Download the app and create an account. Once you are logged in on the mobile, go to Settings and select 'Yale' as your institution.
RefWorks enables users to create their own personal research database of citations to books, journal articles, and web pages, by importing references from online databases. They can use these references in writing their papers and automatically format the paper and the bibliography.
Citations imported into RefWorks will display with Yale links. These links will lead to electronic full text (when available) along with other library services, such as Interlibrary Loan. RefShare allows users to easily share a folder of RefWorks citations with others at Yale University. Users will be able to read, print and export these references to their own RefWorks database.
ResearchIT CT (formerly known as iConn) is part of the Connecticut Education Network. It provides access to a wide selection of information databases and other electronic resources such as InfoTrac One File, General Reference Center GOLD, Expanded Academic Index, Business & Company Resource Center, and Health & Wellness Resource Center, to support the educational, cultural, personal and economic interests of Connecticut citizens.
A service of Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), SciFinder Scholar grants access to Chemical Abstracts, CASReact, Registry, CHEMCATS, and MEDLINE. Users can search by chemical substances and reactions or patent and journal references.
Scopus offers peer-reviewed abstracts and citations in science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Materials included range from scientific journals and books to conference proceedings.
The Social Science Citation Index, by Web of Science, tracks which articles are cited by other articles. This is particularly useful in bibliometric research, systematic reviews, as well as determining which journals to publish in. Users can also navigate to full-text versions of the articles through this tool.
Sociological Abstracts features a range of materials on the sociological aspects of many disciplines, including anthropology, business, education, law, medicine and health, social psychology, and more.
Springer Protocols allows users to search for biomedical and life science research protocols available. Subject protocols covered include: Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Genetics, Informatics, Microbiology, Molecular and Cell Biology, Neuroscience, Oncology, PCR and Proteomics. It also contains all content published in the Methods in Molecular Biology™ and Methods in Molecular Medicine™ book series beginning with Volume 1 of each series.
STATdx provides literature and resources on radiology to help with comprehensive decision support. Resources include: expert-selected and annotated image examples, differential diagnosis modules, example patient cases, and procedure information.
To request a STATdx password account, please contact amy.omalley@yale.edu.
Statista provides access to statistics and studies gathered by market researchers, trade organizations, scientific publications, and government sources on over six hundred industries.
Curated research guide with library tools and databases for surgery.
Symptom Media's film library of clinical training illustrates behavioral health symptoms unfolding on screen and serves as an educational tool for symptom recognition. All films are produced with an experienced multi-disciplinary behavioral health team working in concert with professional scriptwriters, filmmakers and highly trained actors.
Curated research guide with library tools and databases for therapeutic radiology and radiation oncology.
TRANSFAC is a knowledge-base containing published data on eukaryotic transcription factors (and miRNAs), their experimentally-proven binding sites, and regulated genes. The same data also forms the basis of derived positional weight matrices which can be used with the included tools (Match/FMatch/CMsearch) to search DNA sequences for putative transcription factor binding sites. Transcription factor ChIP-Seq, DNase hypersensitivity and histone methylated intervals from the ENCODE project have been mapped to promoter sequences and complement the binding site data curated from the literature.
Key Capabilities
- Predict TF binding sites or composite elements within single DNA sequences with Match and CMsearch, using matrices (PWMs) from TRANSFAC or your own
- Analyze microarray, ChIP-seq and RNA-seq data for over-represented TF-binding sites (FMatch/Step-by-step analysis)
- Find de novo motifs in sequence sets with the DECOD algorithm and compare them against TRANSFAC matrices
- Analyze gene sets for the presence of shared miRNA target sites
- Build custom transcription regulatory networks from experimentally demonstrated factor-DNA and factor-factor interactions
- Explore detailed reports for transcription factors, their experimentally-characterized binding sites, regulated genes and promoters with mapped regulatory features
- Download binding fragments and best scoring sites from individual ChIP experiments in FASTA or BED format, or lists of nearest genes, for analysis
Access for database search does not require a personal username and password. But users will need to create a personal account to save data and to use the included tools. Particularly useful in the bioinformatics.
A Yale email address is required to create an account. Register to use TRANSFAC®
Simultaneously searches evidence-based sources of systematic reviews, practice guidelines, and critically appraised topics and articles. Also searches MEDLINE's Clinical Queries, medical image databases, e-textbooks, and patient information leaflets. [TRIP = Turning Research into Practice]
This is the institutional gateway from Unbound Medicine. All content is installed by default including 5-Minute Emergency Medicine Consult, Johns Hopkins ABX Guide, Essential Evidence/POEMS, Evidence-based Medicine Guidelines, Hopkins Manual of Gynecology & Obstetrics, Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests, Taber's Medical Dictionary, and Prime PubMed. To access uCentral, first time users must be on the Yale or YNHH network to create a mobile account username and password.
Ulrichsweb.com provides users with essential serials bibliographic and access information that ranges from subscription rates to the latest web sites. Nearly a quarter of a million consumer and trade magazines, academic and scholarly publications, monographic series, newsletters, newspapers, electronic publications, 'zines, and many other types of serial publications and services published throughout the world on all subjects, are profiled.
Ulrichsweb.com includes current information on the serial titles found in the following print directories:
El-Hi Textbooks and Serials in Print (elementary and high school titles)
Irregular Serials and Annuals
Large Print Books % Serials, Complete
Law Books and Serials in Print
Magazines for Libraries
Medical & Healthcare Books and Serials in Print
Scientific & Technical Books & Serials in Print
Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
Working Press of the Nation
Other Versions:
SML Z6941 +U47 10 (LC)
MEDICAL, Reference Z6941 U5 (LC)
CCL, Reference, Upper Level Z6941 +U47 (LC)
SSL, Reference Z6941 +U47 (LC)
KLINE, Reference, Journal Info Section
Z6941 +U47 (LC)
UpToDate is a practical clinical reference designed to provide quick access to synthesized medical information in an easy-to-use format. It is comprised of thousands of original topic reviews written by a recognized faculty of experts who each address a specific clinical issue and provide detailed recommendations.
Mobile App Installation
Get the UpToDate App through Apple's App Store, Android Google Play or the Windows 8 store
An active Internet connection - either WiFi or cellular data - is required to access UpToDate content. The application is free but users MUST register to create a personal username and password in order to use the UpToDate mobile application. You must be on the Yale University or Yale-New Haven Hospital network (or using remote access) to register. Go to UptoDate Online on a computer and click on "Login/Register" or the "Register Now" link and complete the registration form. You will be prompted to enter the username/password you just created the first time you use the App. EPIC users can register with UpToDate from within the EPIC system. This will link your EPIC login with your UpToDate personal account and allow you to accumulate AMA Category 1 CME by reading UpToDate content while in the EPIC system.
Curated research guide with library tools and databases for urology.
VH Dissector Pro (Virtual Human)
Click the above link to enter your Yale email address and have a product key for the VH Dissector software sent to you via email.
VH Dissector Pro (Virtual Human) allows you to display selected anatomical structures and rotate them in space. The program is installed locally on all Macintosh computers in the Medical Library’s Information Room and 24/7 Space and on a computer in the Small Conference Room (Room 101). VH Dissector is also available in the 3rd floor Anatomy Lab and the Histology/Microbiology Labs on the 2nd floor of TAC. A Macbook Pro Laptop with VH Dissector can be borrowed from the Medical Library’s Circulation Desk (in library use only) for group viewing of the program in Library conference and group study rooms.
VisualDx is a diagnostic clinical decision support system designed to enhance diagnostic accuracy, aid therapeutic decisions, and improve patient safety. Clinicians can build a custom differential diagnosis across general medicine or use the search function to access patient-specific clinical information and medical images.
Mobile App Available
An active Internet connection is required to use VisualDx. You must register for a personal account while on either the Yale University or YNHH Secure WiFi network (or via a Yale VPN connection). To register, go to VisualDx and click on the “Get the Mobile App” link. After registering, download the app. Then activate it with the username and password you created on the online version of VisualDx.
Web of Science is a multidisciplinary database offering access to a broad selection of journal articles, conference proceedings, book chapters, reviews, and more. Web of Science also offers citation reports that let users view connections between researchers across fields.
WorldCat (FirstSearch interface, recommended for library staff)
WorldCat.org (Recommended for all other users)
WorldCat is the Online Computer Library Center's (OCLC) online "union catalog"; that is, its database of books and other materials held in more than 10,000 academic, public, special and national libraries around the world. Use WorldCat to locate materials outside of Yale, in almost any area of study, or to locate items in specific libraries and research collections. WorldCat provides catalog records for books, maps, sound recordings, musical scores, films, archives, and computer files held in research, corporate, and public libraries, as well as museums, archives and historical societies. All searches may be easily printed, downloaded or e-mailed directly to you.
NEW ! Click on the Yale links icon and then on the link for submitting an Interlibrary Loan request to obtain items that Yale does not own.
Zoological Record covers all aspects of modern animal research, including: behavior, biodiversity, conservation, ecology, evolution, genetics, habitat, morphology, nomenclature, parasitology, physiology, reproduction, taxonomy, and zoogeography.
Years of Coverage: 1864 to Present