InfoGuides: Ultrasound Echocardiography Sonography: Databases, journals

Last Updated: Oct 14, 2024 10:20 AM

Databases for clinical research and general literature search

PubMed This link opens in a new window
A service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s.
Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window
Source of reliable , current information (not full text) on the effects of interventions in health care.
Web of Science - All Databases This link opens in a new window
Articles in social science, science and technology disciplines. RIT's subscription includes these databases: Web of Science (1975-present); Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, Medline, and ISI Proceedings.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
ScienceDirect contains over 25% of the world's science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information.
Proquest Complete This link opens in a new window
All-in-one database that provides coverage for nearly all academic areas of study including arts, business, humanities, health, social sciences, sciences and current affairs.
EBSCO This link opens in a new window
This scholarly collection provides coverage for nearly all academic areas of study.
UpToDate This link opens in a new window
UpToDate is a comprehensive evidence-based clinical information resource available to RIT. UpToDate enables clinicians to: access the most current information within their specialty, recognize the clinical manifestations of a wide variety of disorders and describe current options for diagnosis, management and therapy, including the efficacy, doses, and interactions of individual drugs, and Identify optimal screening and prevention strategies.

IN CASE YOU HAVE WONDERED!!! about the library's database finder webpage

Databases are created by different publishers and professional organizations
Databases have their own subject specialties and content type which could be journals and/or books and/or multimedia and other growing types of data.
Although not all databases are alike you will encounter the same or similar listed journals and books
Most databases require a subscription
The government databases tend to be free e.g. NIH-NLM Medline/Pubmed/PMC (health/medicine) and USDA(agriculture/nutrition) , ERIC(education)
Databases were created before search engines/portal tools e.g. Google and GoogleScholar and like library webpage search engines (Summon)

Example Journals

JDMS (Journal of Diagnostic Medical Sonography)
Ultrasound Sonography Journals
161 titles plus
Health & Biological Sciences: Medicine: Radiology, MRI, Ultrasonography & Medical Physics
JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association)
New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM)
Health and Medical Journals