Graduate Medical Education

While basic PubMed is free to all Internet users, this link adds blue "Jefferson" buttons to individual citations that connect to Jefferson journal subscriptions and document delivery services for full-text options. PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's own interface for MEDLINE and also includes PREMEDLINE (new citations which don't have their subject headings yet) and OLDMEDLINE (reaching back to the 1950s). Use it to identify journal articles on your biomedical topic.

MEDLINE covers the international journal literature of biomedicine. The over 5,000 journals indexed are selected for quality and scope. This database also includes new references not yet added to MEDLINE and PubMed references not in MEDLINE.

NOTE: The word 'MEDLINE' is frequently (but erroneously) used to describe the Ovid suite of health-related databases. Ovid uses a single interface to access many different databases, including MEDLINE, International Pharmaceutical Abstracts, and more. While the main thrust of MEDLINE is clinical information, some administrative and sociological literature is included.

Scopus is Jefferson Libraries’ broadest literature database for nursing, life and health sciences. Scopus searches citations and abstracts of over 44,000 sources across a broad spectrum of sciences, medicine, social sciences and technology, journals, books, conference papers, and world patent literature. Alerts and individual profiles are available. Since 1996, Scopus has indexed the citations and references for each document, making it possible to track citations to individual documents and authors. A suite of article, journal and author metrics are available to analyze research impact.

The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases, including Cochrane Controlled Trials Register, which is commonly referred to as "Trials" or "CENTRAL", Cochrane Systematic Reviews and Protocols, and Cochrane Clinical Answers.