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AccessEmergency Medicine provides medical students with a variety of resources needed to excel on their clerkship; assists residents in gaining instant access to videos, self-assessment, and leading emergency textbooks that will establish an important foundation for learning; and allows practicing physicians to brush up on their medical knowledge when studying for their recertification exam.

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AccessMedicine from McGraw-Hill Medical is a comprehensive online medical resource that features continually updated content from leading medical books.

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Evidence Based Medicine Reviews (OVID)
Supports 5 concurrent users
AIDS clinical trials and drugs currently being evaluated.
A unique bibliographic database that covers a selection of journals in complementary medicine, palliative care, and several professions allied to medicine. (OVID)
Supports 20 concurrent users
Medically accurate 3D images, movies, and animation of parts of the human anatomy of relevance to research in speech language pathology.

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The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) provides timely, accurate and comparable information. Their data and reports inform health policies, support the effective delivery of health services and raise awareness among Canadians of the factors that contribute to good health.
Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature (EBSCO)
Clinical Key (Elsevier) offers:
• Leading medical texts, unabridged and continuously updated
• Full-text articles from top clinical journals
• Peer-reviewed clinical practice guidelines with integrated MEDLINE searches

Create a personal account to bookmark your favorite content, earn CME credits, receive tailored alerts and download PDF's.
Service of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, ClinicalTrials.gov provides regularly updated information about federally and privately supported clinical research in human volunteers.
Evidence Based Medicine Reviews (OVID)
Supports 5 concurrent users
Evidence Based Medicine Reviews (OVID)
Supports 5 concurrent users
Clinical Practice Guidelines published by the Canadian Medical Association
Alternate Name(s):RxTx, e-Therapeutics, CTC, CTMA, CPMA
Clinical decision support tool licensed from the CPhA (Canadian Pharmacists Association). Includes Therapeutic Choices, e-CPS (online version of the Compendium of Pharmaceuticals), Lexi-Comp's Lexi-Interact and more.

Android app is not available at this time. Apple users are unaffected. Please see the following link for further information: https://shop.pharmacists.ca/FAQ/s/article/CPS-Mobile?language=en_US

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Full text database that provides structured systematic reviews. (OVID)
Supports 5 concurrent users
Alternate Name(s):DOAJ
The DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) was launched in 2003 at Lund University, Sweden, with 300 open access journals. Today, the independent database contains ca. 12000 open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social science and humanities.

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OpenDissertations.org is a collaboration between EBSCO and BiblioLabs that brings an innovative approach to increase traffic and discoverability of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) research. Includes more than 800,000 ETDs.
Biomedical & Pharmaceutical database (also known as Excerpta Medica) (OVID)
Supports 40 concurrent users
ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and research. The database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. Content includes journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, dissertations and theses, and books dating back to 1966.
DynaMed Plus and McMaster University's Health Information Research Unit are collaborating to provide you with access to current best evidence from research, tailored to your own health care interests, to support evidence-based clinical decisions.

This service is unique: all articles (from over 110 premier clinical journals) are pre-rated for quality by highly trained research staff, then rated for clinical relevance and interest by at least 3 members of a worldwide panel of practicing physicians. Here's what we offer

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The Federal Science Library (FSL) is a one-stop, self-serve portal where you can access library services and search the print collections and repositories of seven science-based departments and agencies from a single place. Wherever possible, departmental publications, reports, data sets and other content are freely available for anyone to access or download.

List of agencies covered:
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO)
Health Canada (HC)
National Research Council Canada (NRC)
Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC)

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The NIH genetic sequence database.

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The Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) is a collection of over 22,000 freely available digital materials for health sciences education.
Provides comparable quality data on key health indicators from 2010 forward. Published by Statistic Canada and the Canadian Institute for Health Information.
Talks specially commissioned and organized into
comprehensive series that cover both the fundamentals and the latest advances.
"The Highly Cited Researchers list from the Web of Science Group identifies scientists and social scientists who have demonstrated significant influence through publication of multiple papers, highly cited by their peers, during the last decade." (Methodology, "Overview", para. 1)
Provides access to research in progress, ongoing grants and contracts in health services research.
This website is an integrated, one-stop, genomic resource for biomedical researchers.

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Alternate Name(s):InCites Benchmarking and Analytics
Customized, web-based research evaluation tool that allows you to analyze institutional productivity and benchmark your output against peers worldwide.

NOTE: Register with your NOSM email address to sign in and gain access.
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Getting Started with InCites:
https://clarivate.com/webofsciencegroup/support/incites/

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Evidence-based medicine (EBM) integrates the best available evidence with clinical experience that allows clinicians to recommend, and their patients to make, informed choices consistent with their values. JAMAevidence helps decision makers identify the best available evidence by providing guides to the systematic consideration of the validity, importance, and applicability of claims about the assessment of health problems and the outcomes of health care.

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Alternate Name(s):JCR, Journal Impact Factor, Impact Factor
Provides citation data that helps evaluate and compare more than 20,000 scholarly journals in the areas of arts, business, humanities, science, technology, and social sciences. Journals can be retrieved by title, keyword(s), category (subject area), publisher, or country and sorted by several criteria such as total citations and impact factor.
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Getting Started with Journal Citation Reports:
https://clarivate.com/webofsciencegroup/support/support-jcr/

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Provides access to two independent drug information resources within the same interface - Lexi's point-of-care content and AHFS's comprehensive, in-depth database.
Provides an annotated bibliography of prose, poetry, art, film and video for teaching and scholarship in the medical humanities

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The Ovid MEDLINE database contains bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 4,600 biomedical journals published in the U.S. and in 70 other countries. The database contains over 12 million citations, spanning from 1950 to present.
Developed by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, MedlinePlus has extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over 700 diseases and conditions. Also includes lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia, a medical dictionary, extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to thousands of clinical trials.
This product replaces eMedicine. Contains sections relating to: Diseases and Condition, Procedure, Drugs and Anatomy. Requires registration.
Consortium of higher education institutions

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NCTR Archives currently house more than five million records in the archival collections. The overwhelming majority of these records currently consist of those created or collected by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) during its mandate. The NCTR also actively collects records on various issues and subject areas important to Indigenous communities across the country.
NICE produces guidance on public health, health technologies and clinical practice. Guidance is developed using the expertise of the National Health Service (NHS) and the healthcare community. (UK)
The Native Health Database contains bibliographic information and abstracts of health-related articles, reports, surveys, and other resource documents pertaining to the health and health care of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Canadian First Nations.
Natural Standard has merged with Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database and is now Natural Medicines. This is an authoritative resource on dietary supplements, natural medicines and complementary alternative and integrative therapies.
Videos, images, interactive cases and audio summaries provided by the New England Journal of Medicine.
Nursing & Allied Premium is a user-friendly multiformat database for nursing research, clinical skills development, and curriculum support complete with a diverse mix of scholarly literature, clinical training videos, reference materials, and evidence-based resources. While other providers tend to focus solely on the information needs of professionals, the Nursing & Allied Health Database is best used for those preparing for a career in healthcare, teaching patient care, or engaged in nursing research.

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Alternate Name(s):OA Button
Free, legal research articles delivered instantly or automatically requested from authors.
ORLive is the world’s leading surgical broadcasting company. Working collaboratively with hospitals and device manufacturers, ORLive produces customized, interactive, video programs that demonstrate the latest surgical techniques and product innovations.

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Institute for Clinical Pathology, University Hospital Zürich
Physiotherapy Evidence Database
Synthesized evidence, recommendations, and identified and evaluated best practice tools and resources, offered via Knowledge Pathways, by the Dietitians of Canada.
Supports 5 concurrent users
Includes access to the American Psychiatric Publishing (APPI) e-journals, the DSM Library, APA practice guidelines & the American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry (4th Ed.).
The American Psychological Association's bibliographic database of psychology. Spanning 1872 to present, includes international material selected from more than 1,900 periodicals. Some full-text links.
Produced by the Centre for Disease Control (CDC).
PubMed
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Open access version of MEDLINE with LinkOut activated to the Library's e-journals.

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NOTE: You must use your @nosm.ca email address when you register your account.

RefWorks is a citation manager used to organize your research and help link citations to full text articles licensed by NOSM University.
The Registry is a searchable, online collection of evidence-informed methods and tools for knowledge translation in public health. Methods and tools are defined as standardized procedures or products that help you access or use information for decision making. Examples include regular and systematic approaches, sets of organized steps or rules, or instruments, guidelines and manuals.

The Registry identifies and describes methods and tools in summary statements, and then provides links to their sources. The summaries help busy practitioners find and use these methods and tools to enable evidence use in their practice.

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Scholars Portal Journals is a repository of over 65 million scholarly articles drawn from journals covering every academic discipline.
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Most hosted journals are subscription-based and are available only to Ontario universities who have negotiated access for them. A small but growing number of journals are open access and available to anyone.

Scholars Portal Journals is certified as a Trustworthy Digital Repository for long-term preservation.

All commercial content on the platform is negotiated through the OCUL office to ensure long-term hosting and preservation rights. If there is an open access journal you’d like see loaded, hosted, and preserved on the platform, please contact us.
Produced by the EPA, the Science Inventory is a searchable database of more than 4,000 scientific and technical work products.
Skin Deep is led by the international medical education team, Don’t Forget the Bubbles (DFTB) and the Royal London Hospital (RLH). The aim is to develop a free, open-access bank of high-quality photographs of medical conditions in a range of skin tones for use by both healthcare professionals and the public. The team behind Skin Deep hopes that with time, this will improve education and recognition of conditions in all skin tones, reducing inequalities and improving patient care by ensuring that all children receive a timely diagnosis regardless of their skin colour.
The Canadian Government's leading resource for Canadian Statistics.

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The TEDMED conference, inspired by the broader TED conference, showcases new medical and health care related research.
Theses Canada is a collaborative program between Library and Archives Canada and Canadian universities. The program launched in 1965 at the request of the deans of Canadian graduate schools. It strives to:

Acquire and preserve theses and dissertations from participating universities

Provide open access to Canadian digital theses and dissertations in the collection

Facilitate access to non-digital theses and dissertations in the collection
A leading resource for Evidence-Based Medicine, allowing users to easily and rapidly identify the highest quality evidence from a wide range of sources.

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Contains bibliographic descriptions and ordering information for approximately 300,000 periodicals (also known as serials) including scholarly journals, popular magazines and newspapers. Information includes:

-publisher, country of publication, format, whether active or ceased, start year, frequency
-document type, e.g., academic/scholarly, consumer magazine, etc.-
-whether refereed/peer reviewed
-abstracting & indexing coverage
-full-text database coverage
-reviews
UpToDate
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Alternate Name(s):UptoDate, up to date, uptodate, utd, UTD
UpToDate is a comprehensive evidence-based clinical information resource available to patrons on-site & off-site.
*Note* UptoDate may have access to your NOSM University username when you login from off-campus.
For more information see our UpToDate Tip Sheet.

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VisualDx is a diagnostic clinical decision support system designed to enhance diagnostic accuracy, aid therapeutic decisions, and improve patient safety. With a strong dermatology component, this application can help quickly build a differential to evaluate the possibilities, compare variations, and improve diagnostic accuracy. Its vast medical image library includes many skin types, and pigments effectively providing access to clinical information and images at the point of care, on any device - mobile, tablet, or desktop.

E-Reserves Permitted

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A research platform that helps you find, analyze and share information in the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities. You get integrated access to high quality literature through a unified platform that links a wide variety of content with one seamless search.
Science Citation Index Expanded (1975-present)
Social Sciences Citation Index (1975-present)
Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present)
Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Science (1990-present)
Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Social Science & Humanities (1990-present)
Biomedical Collection holds over 40 000 clinical and biomedical images
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