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Cochrane Library [Available off-campus] 

This is a source of reliable and up-to-date information on the effects of interventions in health care. Provides access to: the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE), Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Cochrane Database of Methodology Reviews, Health Technology Assessment Database, and the NHS Economic Evaluations Database.

PubMed [Free to all]  

NLM's interface to MEDLINE, the premiere database of the health sciences. Includes abstracts and extensive links to the full-text in the Library's collections. Good coverage of Ophthalmology, but does not completely cover Optometric topics.

Scopus [Available off-campus] 

Offers indexing for 14,000 peer-reviewed titles from more than 4,000 international publishers, including many optics and physics titles.

VisionCite [Available off-campus] 

VisionCite is a citation index to the vision science literature compiled by Illinois College of Optometry Library. Similar in purpose to Visionet, VisionCite contains over 175,000 articles. You can log in below.

Visionet [Available off-campus]

"The Visionet database contains bibliographic citations of journal articles, books and slides located in the Southern College of Optometry Library. Subject areas covered include vision science, contact lenses, eye disease, optometry and ophthalmology. The files were begun in 1976 and are current, with weekly updates."

If you want to search for grants or datasets or anything else instead of journal articles, take a look at our other online resources

All Bibliographic Databases

Academic OneFile

[available off-campus]

Academic OneFile provides extensive full text of peer-reviewed publications in PDF and HTML and links to multimedia sources. A multidisciplinary source of information, with focus on physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects from 1980 - present. Provided by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commisioners.

AgeLine

"AgeLine abstracts the literature of social gerontology as well as aging-related research from psychology, sociology, social work, economics, public policy, and the health sciences."

Cochrane Library

[available off-campus]

This is a source of reliable and up-to-date information on the effects of interventions in health care. Provides access to: the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE), Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Cochrane Database of Methodology Reviews, Health Technology Assessment Database, and the NHS Economic Evaluations Database.

The Cochrane Library on Wiley InterScience User Guide

Provides information on what the Cochrane Library is, and how to use it effectively.

DARE: Database of abstracts of review of effects.

Centre for Reviews and Dissemination

DARE contains summaries of systematic reviews about the effects of interventions. Each summary also provides a critical commentary on the quality of the review.

DOAJ Article Search

Directory of Open Access Journals

Find articles from over 200 Open Access journals.

EBSCOhost

[available off-campus]

Access to several databases (and a great deal of full-text) covering a broad range of topics.

EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service

[available off-campus]

Enables keyword searching of many of the journals that the library has electronic access to.

Educator's Reference Complete

[available off-campus]

Educator's Reference Complete includes mostly full-text content of more than 1,100 periodicals and 200 reports. Includes content for educators from preschool to college, and every educational specialty, such as technology, bilingual education, health education, and testing, and also focuses on issues in administration, funding and policy. Provided by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commisioners.

eLibrary

Contains over 2,000 full-text magazines, newspapers, books, and transcripts, plus thousands of maps, pictures, educator-approved websites from Homework Centralª, and audio/video files. Provided by the Boston Regional Library System.

Entrez cross-database search

Runs single search across all Entrez databases, from PubMed to Cancer Chromosomes -- over 20 in all.

ERIC

"ERIC is the world's largest source of education information, with more than 1 million abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice."

ERIC (EBSCOhost)

[available off-campus]

EBSCOhost provides single-search access to ERIC and MasterFile Premiere.

Expanded Academic ASAP

[available off-campus]

Expanded Academic ASAP provides access to full text and images of scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers from 1980 to present. This database meets research needs from arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology. Provided by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commisioners.

Gale Databases

[available off-campus]

Citations and full text from thousands of publications. Broken into sections ranging from "General Reference Center Gold" to "Business and Company ASAP." Sponsored by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.

General OneFile

[available off-campus]

A multidisciplinary database providing citations and some full text to a broad range of news and periodical titles, including some peer-reviewed journals. Coverage of some titles extends back to 1980. Sponsored by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.

Google Scholar

"Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web."

Health Reference Center Academic

[available off-campus]

Designed for nursing and allied health professionals as well as consumer researchers. 800+ health science titles indexed. 600+ titles with full-text availability. Sponsored by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.

Health Source - Consumer Edition

[available off-campus]

"This resource provides access to nearly 300 full text, consumer health periodicals, including American Fitness, Better Nutrition, Harvard Health Letter, HealthFacts, Men's Health, Muscle & Fitness, Prevention, Vegetarian Times, and many others. In addition to full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for more than 300 periodicals." Also provides access to patient ed materials and "Cliical Pharmacology". Provided by the Boston Regional Library System.

HTA: Health Technology Assessment Database

Centre for Reviews and Dissemination

The HTA database contains information on healthcare technology assessments. The database contains systematic reviews, and ongoing and completed research based on trials, questionnaires and economic evaluations.

HubMed

Alternative interface for PubMed searching. Includes RSS feeds, bookmarklet tool and more.

JSTOR - Mathematics and Statistics Collections

[available off-campus]

Full-text access to the backfiles (in many cases back to vol. 1) of a number of the core journals in math and statistics. Access to current issues is delayed by 3-5 years depending on the individual title.

Massachusetts Newsstand

[available off-campus]

Complete full-text archive of Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Worcester Telegram & Gazette, and other Massachusetts newspapers. Provided by the Boston Regional Library System.

Meva

"Meva (MEDLINE Evaluator) is a free MEDLINE postprocessor, a medico-scientific data mining web service analyzing bibliographic data returned by an inquiry to PubMed."

netLibrary

[available off-campus]

(sign-up required to "check-out" books or access system off-campus) netLibrary is a collection of over 3,000 online books covering a wide range of subject areas. There is one copy of each of the eBook titles in the collection, and NEWENCO shares the same set of eBooks with many other libraries in the state. Much like physical books, each eBook can be viewed by only 1 person at a time.

Newspaper Source

[available off-campus]

"Newspaper Source provides selected full text for 25 national (U.S.) and international newspapers, including USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post, The Times (London), The Toronto Star, etc. The database also contains selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers, including The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The Detroit Free Press, The Miami Herald, The New York Daily News, The San Jose Mercury News, etc. In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, FOX News, NPR, etc." Provided by the Boston Regional Library System.

NLM Gateway

National Library of Medicine

"The NLM Gateway allows users to search in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). The current Gateway searches MEDLINE/PubMed, TOXLINE Special, LOCATORplus, MedlinePlus, ClinicalTrials.gov, DIRLINE, Meeting Abstracts, HSRProj, OMIM, and HSDB."

OAIster

Find articles and other resources in Open Access repositories from hundreds of institutions.

Ovid MEDLINE

[available off-campus]

POPLINE

Published and unpublished lterature in the field of population, family planning, and related health issues.

Professional Development Collection

[available off-campus]

Provides access to 520 education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports.

PubMed

National Library of Medicine

NLM's interface to MEDLINE, the premiere database of the health sciences. Includes abstracts and extensive links to the full-text in the Library's collections. Good coverage of Ophthalmology, but does not completely cover Optometric topics.

PubMed Online Training

Provides a general tutorial on PubMed, plus brief instructional videos on searching PubMed and using My NCBI and the MeSH Database.

ReferenceSight Publication Database

Centre for Contact Lens Research at University of Waterloo

More than 2000 journals indexed on the topics of contact lenses, refractive surgery and external ocular disease.

REHABDATA

National Rehabilitation Information Center (NARIC)

REHABDATA, produced by the National Rehabilitation Information Center, is the leading literature database on disability and rehabilitation. The database describes over 65,000 documents covering physical, mental, and psychiatric disabilities, independent living, vocational rehabilitation, special education, assistive technology, law, employment, and other issues as they relate to people with disabilities. The collection span 1956 to the present.

Science Reference Center

[available off-campus]

"Science Reference Center is a comprehensive science reference database, which provides users with a broad spectrum of reference information from the areas of life sciences, physical sciences, and earth & space sciences. Science Reference Center is a completely full-text database that combines information from books, monographs, journals, magazines, encyclopedias, and reference works. It is an essential science resource for public, academic, and high school libraries. " Provided by the Boston Regional Library System.

Scirus

Indexes material from a wide range of publisher sources and web sites.

Scitopia.org : Integrating Trusted Science + Technology Research.

Powered by Deep Web Technologies' Explorit Research Accelerator federated search engine.A federated search portal to the digital libraries of several American and international science and technology societies. More than three million documents, including peer-reviewed journal content and technical conference papers spanning 150 years of science and technology, can be searched through the site.

Scopus

[available off-campus]

Offers indexing for 14,000 peer-reviewed titles from more than 4,000 international publishers, including many optics and physics titles. Permits citing and cited-by searches, and citation tracking.

Scopus Help

Provides assistance in conducting a basic search, plus an interactive tutorial.

SRS

European Bioinformatics Institute

Searches against dozens of U.S. and European biomedical databases

Trip Database : Turning research into practice

[available off-campus]

Evidence-based medicine database developed to enable health professionals to find answers to clinical questions.

VisionCite

[available off-campus]

Compiled by Illinois College of Optometry Library, VisionCite is a citation index to the vision science literature including topics such as contact lenses, optometry, practice management in addition to the treatment and management of eye disease. VisionCite contains citations to over 175,000 articles.

VisionCite Help /

Dujsik, Gerald.

Provides assistance in searching VisionCite effectively.

Visionet

[available off-campus]

"The Visionet database contains bibliographic citations of journal articles, books and slides located in the Southern College of Optometry Library. Subject areas covered include vision science, contact lenses, eye disease, optometry and ophthalmology. The files were begun in 1976 and are current, with weekly updates."

WorldCat

OCLC.

Updated daily. Over 40 million records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 11th century.

XplorMed

"The XplorMed server allows you to explore a set of abstracts derived from a MEDLINE search... Your interests may be modified by the results obtained, or you may want to enquire new questions as the analysis develops. Also, the results may suggest you additional words that should be used to expand your query in MEDLINE (e.g., unexpected abbreviations of a protein name, or synonyms of a disease)."