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SEARCH – The KMC Health Sciences Library
MAHE, Manipal

LIBRARY E-RESOURCES

Library e-Resources


SEARCH - The Health Sciences Library provides access to the following e-resources (online databases, journals, books, and other learning resources, etc.).

  1. Bates’ Visual Guide to Physical Examination
    Bates’ Visual Guide to Physical Examination is Lippincott's online platform for delivering more than 8 hours of video content that provides head-to-toe and systems-based physical examination techniques for the advanced assessment or introduction to Clinical Medicine course or for practitioners requiring a review of the History & Physical.
     
  2. BMJ Best Practice
    BMJ Best Practice is an evidence-based generalist point of care tool uniquely structured around patient consultations, with advice on symptom evaluation, test ordering, and treatment approaches.
     
  3. BMJ Learning
    BMJ Learning offers high-quality continuing medical education for doctors and other healthcare professionals. It features hundreds of accredited, peer-reviewed learning modules in text, video, and audio formats.
     
  4. BMJ OnExamination
    BMJ OnExamination for MBBS Students is an online platform that helps students revise their learning. It will help students to reinforce their learnings and gain knowledge and examination skills. 
     
  5. CINAHL Ultimate
    CINAHL Ultimate is the new definitive resource for nursing and allied health research, providing full text for more of the most used journals in the CINAHL index than any other database. It covers over 50 nursing specialties and includes quick lessons, evidence-based care sheets, CEU modules, and research instruments. More than 5,600 journals indexed covering nursing and allied health. It also includes other ancillary subject areas that support nursing and allied practice (e.g., biomedicine, health services administration, public health, etc.).
     
  6. ClinicalKey
    ClinicalKey is a clinical reference solution that supports clinical education and clinical decisions by making accessing and applying relevant knowledge easier. ClinicalKey provides unparalleled access to concise, trusted answers and deep evidence-based content for more complex issues.  Covering over 30 medical and surgical specialties, ClinicalKey can provide the answers students and faculty need with its quality, rich content.  It provides access to 750+ journals and 1000+ books. ClinicalKey offers you access to Elsevier's current medical and surgical content, including:
    • Full-text medical and surgical books and journals
    • First Consult point-of-care monographs
    • Customizable patient education handouts
    • Drug monographs from Gold Standard
    • Thousands of videos, including those from Procedures Consult
    • Millions of images
    • Practice guidelines
    • Clinical trials from clinicaltrials.gov
    • Fully indexed MEDLINE
       
  7. ClinicalKey Student
    ClinicalKey Student is an interactive education platform that supports students and faculty by enhancing the learning experience with tools tailored to develop and assess the medical knowledge of aspiring professionals.
     
    • New Assessment capabilities - Support students and faculty by enhancing the teaching and learning experience with tools tailored to develop and assess the medical knowledge of aspiring professionals.
    • Foundation capabilities - Help medical students to learn smarter, with access to hundreds of acclaimed textbooks, powerful study tools, and a library of video resources.
       

  8. Cochrane Library
    The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases (Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials - CENTRAL, and Cochrane Clinical Answers) that contain high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. The Cochrane Library is owned by Cochrane and published by Wiley.

  9. Dynamic Health CDS & Skills
    Dynamic Health CDS+Skills is an innovative, evidence-based resource that helps nurses and allied health professionals master critical skills. Users can find current, actionable information about core nursing competencies, transcultural care, patient training, occupational therapy, speech therapy, nutrition and dietetics, social work, and more.

  10. EBSCO Dental Collection (Dentistry & Oral Sciences Source)
    Dentistry & Oral Science Source is the definitive full-text research database for dental practitioners and researchers. It offers top dental and oral sciences journals commonly purchased by dental schools and related institutions. Subjects include dental public health, endodontics, odontology, orthodontology, periodontology, and prosthodontics—access top journals like the Journal of Dental Research, all the Quintessence journals, etc.
     

  11. Embase
    Embase is a highly versatile, multi-purpose, and up-to-date biomedical database. It covers the most important international biomedical literature from 1947 to the present day, and all articles are indexed in depth using Elsevier's Life Science thesaurus Embase Indexing and Emtree®. It is also useful in conducting systematic reviews.

    • Journal coverage from 1947 to the present
    • Over 32 million records, including MEDLINE titles
    • Over 8,500 journals from over 95 countries, including MEDLINE titles
    • Over 2,900 indexed journals unique to Embase
    • Over 1.5 million records are added yearly, with an average of over 6,000 each day
    • Over 2.3 million conference abstracts indexed from more than 7,000 conferences dating from 2009
    • Full-text indexing of drug, disease, and medical device data

  12. Incision Academy
    Incision Academy is a surgical education platform for sharing surgical skills and knowledge using standardization and a systematic approach. Incision Academy provides access to a wide range of courses of procedures filmed in 3D from the surgeon’s point of view.
     

  13. Journal Citation Reports (JCR)
    Journal Citation Reports® is a comprehensive and unique resource that allows evaluating and comparing journals using citation data drawn from over 12,856 scholarly and technical journals from more than 3,300 publishers in over 83 countries. It is the only source of citation data in journals and includes virtually all areas of science, technology, and social sciences. Journal Citation Reports can show the following:

  • Most frequently cited journals in a field 
  • Highest impact journals in a field 
  • Largest journals in a field 

Citation and article counts are important indicators of how frequently current researchers use individual journals. JCR offers a unique perspective for journal evaluation and comparison by tabulating and aggregating citation and article counts.

  1. Karger Campus Courses
    Karger Campus Courses is an e-Learning platform. It discovers how to craft a compelling medical paper and submit it to Karger Journals and understand the publication process and gain insights on improving the quality and visibility of research.
     
  2. Lippincott Advisor
    Lippincott Advisor provides immediate access to the information nurses need most. The industry’s leading clinician-based online resource is designed for the point-of-care environment and can provide the most current evidence-based information needed to practice confidently.
     
  3. Lippincott Procedure
    Lippincott Procedures, a web-based, go-to source for step-by-step clinical guidance, has over 2,200 procedures and skills from a wide variety of nursing specialties, including medical-surgical, critical care, obstetric, pediatric, neonatal, ambulatory care, pediatric intensive care, perioperative, oncology, behavioral health, and long-term care. In addition, it also includes allied health procedures for respiratory therapy and physical therapy.
     
  4. MedOne ComSci
    MedOne ComSci is an electronic resource for undergraduate and graduate students in communication science, speech pathology, audiology and professionals practicing in those disciplines. Content is accessible through a simple but powerful search tool or browsing. 

    Features:
  • E-books - A fully searchable database with access to 53 premier audiology and speech-language pathology e-books 
  • E-journals - Full access to content from the journals Seminars in Hearing and Seminars in Speech and Language 
  • Over 376 clinical cases with review questions and answers for each case 
  • Media - 8,900 images with legends and 356 videos 
  1. Ovid MEDLINE
    The world’s leading bibliographic source for biomedical scholarly literature and research - with easy linking to full-text journals. Updated daily, MEDLINE on the Ovid platform offers novice and expert searchers seamless and up-to-the-minute access to over 23 million of the latest bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 5,600 biomedicine and life sciences journals in nearly 40 languages (60 languages for older journals). English abstracts are included in more than 80% of the records.
     
  2. ProQuest Central
    ProQuest Central is the largest single periodical resource available, bringing together complete databases across all major subject areas, including Business, Health and Medical, Language and Literature, Social Sciences, Education, Science, and Technology, as well as core titles in the Performing and Visual Arts, History, Religion, Philosophy, and includes thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world.
     
  3. ProQuest Health and Medical Collection
    Users in academic libraries can find definitive research information in ProQuest Health and Medical Collection. The database has over 3786 journals. The database includes all charts, diagrams, graphs, tables, photos, and other graphical elements essential to medical research. The journals cover all major clinical and healthcare disciplines, including cardiovascular diseases, pediatrics, neurology, respiratory diseases, dentistry, anesthesiology, and others. Subject coverage: Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry, Pharmacology, Microbiology, Immunology, Parasitology, Pathology, Communicable diseases, Cardiovascular system, Musculoskeletal system, Respiratory system, Lymphatic system, Digestive system, Urogenital system, Endocrine system, Nervous system, Psychiatry, Surgery, Gynecology, Obstetrics, Dermatology, Hematology, Pediatrics, Geriatrics, Dentistry, Otolaryngology, Ophthalmology
     
  4. ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Database
    ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Database provides users with reliable healthcare information covering nursing, allied health professions, alternative and complementary medicine, and much more. This versatile database is designed to meet the needs of nursing and allied health programs at academic institutions. ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Database provides thousands of journal titles in full-text, plus dissertations and other grey literature representing rigorous scholarship in nursing and related fields
     
  5. ProQuest Library Science Database
    Library Science Database gives users full-text access to publications relevant to library and information science. It covers a range of titles and topics relevant to the theoretical and applied study of library science, including trade publications aimed at the library profession and scholarly journals.
     
  6. ProQuest Psychology Database
    This database provides abstracts and indexing for key Psychology titles, many of which are in full text. Many titles are indexed in PsycINFO. Coverage ranges from behavioral, clinical, cognitive, developmental, experimental, industrial, and social psychology, personality, psychobiology, and psychometrics.
     
  7. ProQuest Public Health Database
    ProQuest Public Health is a new and unique database designed to be the ideal starting point for public health information and research. It delivers core public health literature with centralized access to over 800 publications, with over 500 in full-text.
     
  8. Research To Publication
    Research to Publication is an online educational tool to help researchers design, conduct, and research reports that journal editors will want to publish. It includes narrative videos and learning exercises across many topics, including what editors look for, publication ethics, and how to conduct a medical trial. 
  • Research To Publication is focused on medical research and filled with expert knowledge while being flexible and learner-paced. Research To Publication allows researchers to:
  • Build technical research skills
  • Improve research quality
  • Advance career by getting papers published
  • Learn at the researcher’s own pace
  • Understand the issues that prevent researchers from getting published
  • Help improve patient outcomes with new evidence
     
  1. SciFinder
    SciFinder is a research discovery application that provides unlimited access to the world's most comprehensive and authoritative source of references, substances, and reactions in chemistry and related sciences. SciFinder offers a one-stop shop experience with flexible search and discovery options based on user input and workflow. You can search for substances, reactions, and patent and journal references anytime. 
  • Make better, more confident decisions knowing that you have access to the largest collection of substances, reactions, and patent and journal references produced, compiled, and updated daily by CAS scientists worldwide. 
  • Save time with an array of powerful tools to search, filter, analyze, and plan, allowing you to find the most relevant answers to your research questions quickly.
     
  1. SciVal
    SciVal offers quick, easy access to the research performance of 24,600 research institutions and 234 nations worldwide. A ready-to-use solution with unparalleled power and flexibility, SciVal enables us to visualize research performance, benchmark relative to peers, develop collaborative partnerships, and analyze research trends. Today's R&D landscape requires research managers to devise better ways to measure the quality and impact of their institution's research projects. Using advanced data analytics super-computer technology, SciVal allows you to instantly process an enormous amount of data and generate robust data visualizations on demand in seconds.
     
  2. Scopus
    Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed research literature, with more than 36,377 titles from more than 11,678 international publishers. Scopus offers researchers a quick, easy, and comprehensive resource to support their research needs in the scientific, technical, medical, and social sciences fields and arts and humanities. Scopus at-a-glance:
  • 34,346 peer-reviewed journals (including 5,500 Open Access journals)
  • 294 trade publications
  • 852 book series
  • “Articles-in-Press” from over 2556 journals
  • Provides 100% Medline coverage
  • 28 million records back to 1996 (of which 78% include citing and cited references)
  • 21 million records pre-1996, which go back as far as 1823 (abstracts are included where available, but these do not include cited references)
  • 9.8 million conference papers from proceedings and journals
  • Approximately 2 million new records are added each year via daily updates
     
  1. Springer Nature Experiments
    Experiments is a new research solution developed by Springer Nature to connect researchers with the most relevant and essential protocols and methods to support their research projects. Springer Nature combines the most extensive available collection of protocols and methods proven to create results, with content from Nature Methods, Nature Protocols, Springer Protocols, and Protocols Exchange.
     
  2. STATdx
  • A comprehensive and trusted diagnostic support tool for radiologists. Highly intuitive and easy to use, STATdx features:
  • 4, 600+ common and complex diagnoses with cine clips for selected topics
  • 1, 500+ differential diagnosis modules
  • 200+ basic and advanced procedures
  • 400+ normal imaging anatomy modules
     
  1. UpToDate  Anywhere
    UpToDate is an evidence-based, physician-authored clinical decision support resource clinicians trust to make the right point-of-care decisions. It is one of the world's most widely used clinical information resources. It provides continuously updated, evidence-based information, an intuitive user interface, and powerful features that enable physicians to make diagnoses, create plans, and share information quickly and efficiently.  With UpToDate, physicians can answer questions quickly, increase their clinical knowledge, and improve patient care. More than 7100 world-renowned physician authors, editors, and peer reviewers use a rigorous editorial process to synthesize the most recent medical information into trusted, evidence-based recommendations that are proven to improve patient care and quality. More than 1.9 million clinicians in 190 countries and almost 90% of academic medical centers in the United States rely on UpToDate to provide the best care.
  • UpToDate continues to be the only knowledge resource that has proven the ability to upgrade Medical Knowledge and also has a direct association with Patient Outcomes:
  • Enhances medical knowledge acquisition and retention
  • Improvement in quality of care, efficiency, and patient safety
  • Reduction in medical complications and adverse effects, length of hospitalization, and mortality
     
  1. Web of Science
    Web of Science provides researchers, administrators, faculty, and students quick, powerful access to the world's leading citation databases. Authoritative, multidisciplinary content covers over 21,000 of the highest-impact journals worldwide, including Open Access journals and over 205,000 conference proceedings. Current and retrospective coverage in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, with coverage to 1900, is available.
     
  2. Online Journal and e-Books Packages
  • ACS (American Chemical Society): Access to 22 ACS online journals with back file access for all the titles (wherever available) since 1996
  • American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): Access to American Academy of Pediatrics 6 online journals with back file access for all the titles (wherever available).
  • BMJ Journals: Access to 29 BMJ (Standard) online journals with back file access for all the titles.
  • Cambridge Journals: Access to Cambridge 51 online journals with back file access for all the titles (wherever available).
  • CBS (EduPort) Books: Access to 157 CBS e-Books.
  • Karger Journals & Books: Access to 57 online journals with back file access for all the titles (wherever available) since 1998 and 184+ Fast Facts books titles.
  • Kortext Lippincott Books: Access to 91 Lippincott e-Books.
  • Nature Journals: Access to Nature Publishing Group 70 online journals with back file access for all the titles (wherever available) since 1997.
  • OvidSP (Lippincott): Access to Lippincott Total Access Collection of 310+ online journals with back file access for all the titles (wherever available) since 1996 through the OvidSP platform
  • Oxford Journals: Access to Complete Medicine collection of 123+ online journals with back file access for all the titles (wherever available) since 1996.
  • Radiological Society of North America (RSNA): Access to Radiological Society of North America 5 online journals with back file access for all the titles (wherever available).
  • SAGE Journals: Access to ‘SAGE Health and Medicine Custom Collection’ 152 online journals with back file access for all the titles (wherever available) since 1999.
  • ScienceDirect: ScienceDirect is a comprehensive online collection of journals, books, and reference works and provides access to scientific documents from journals, books, handbooks, reference works, and book series.
  • SpringerLink: SpringerLink provides access to millions of scientific documents from journals (743+), books (23556+), series, protocols, and reference works.  It is a comprehensive online collection of health science journals, books, and reference works.
  • Taylor and Francis Online: Access to 185 Taylor and Francis Group’s Medical Library online journals with back file access for all the titles (wherever available) since 1997 and 4914 ebooks
  • Wiley Online: Access to Wiley Complete Medical Collection 670+ online journals with back file access for all the titles (wherever available) since 1997
     

Users can access all online databases, journals, books, and other learning resources through the desktop computers available at the library's internet kiosks or computer lab (Levels I to IV). These resources are also accessible from any computer on the campus network (IPs) and remotely via OpenAthens (SSO) through the library website: https://manipal1.stacksplatform.com/.