TIPS:
1. Limit searches to review articles when possible
2. Utilize thesauruses to focus your search with targeted terminology
3. For most recent publications, limit search results to specific years
- Annual Reviews: Reviews of topics in biomedical, physical and social sciences published as annual journals
- CINAHL: CINAHL provides indexing for close to 3000 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health.
- MEDLINE: The U.S. National Library of Medicine premier bibliographic database, containing millions of references to journal articles in the life sciences, with a concentration on biomedicine.
There are three different interfaces to the same data: MEDLINE in EBSCOhost | MEDLINE in Ovid | MEDLINE in Web of Science.
- Pubmed is a version of MEDLINE which is free to the public.
- Nature Reviews: Disease Primers: "Primers have a modular structure, covering epidemiology; disease mechanisms; diagnosis, screening and prevention; management; and quality of life. Authored by an international panel of academic scientists, translational researchers and clinicians, new Primers are published every week."
- Scopus: Indexing, abstracting and citation linking for journals in biology, physics, chemistry, geosciences, agriculture, medicine, business, social work, and the social sciences
- Web of Science: Scholarly articles in all disciplines, useful for finding the most highly-cited articles, for examining the references in an article, or for determining if any articles have cited a specific article or book.
