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CINAHL Plus Full Text
Provides indexing for journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, with indexing back to 1937. It also contains searchable cited references and provides full text for hundreds of journals, plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. In addition, this database offers access to Quick Lesson and Evidence-Based Care Sheets.
| Help: | CINAHL Plus Full Text |
| Tutorial: | CINAHL Tutorial (Duke) CINAHL Tutorial (EBSCO)  |
Cisco VPN
Cisco Virtual Private Networking (VPN) is security software that is used for accessing restricted UT Southwestern systems from the Internet.
| Help: | Cisco VPN Remote Access (Library) |
| Tutorial: | Cisco VPN and Remote Access (Windows XP) E-learning Session |
COS Grants Funding
The Library COS subscription includes 2 services: COS Funding Opportunities is a database of announcements for grants, fellowships, and awards. COS Funding Alerts allow creation of a weekly e-mail notification based on criteria provided by the individual COS member. COS Funding Alerts are accessed through the COS Workbench. Requires a login and password.
| Help: | COS Grant Funding FAQ |
| Tutorial: | COS Overview Tutorial COS Funding Alerts Tutorial COS Funding Opportunities Tutorial |
Electronic Journals
Browsable and searchable, Ejournals A to Z alphabetically lists all biomedical, academic, and general interest ejournals licensed by UT Southwestern.
| Help: | Electronic Journals at UT Southwestern FAQ  |
| Tutorial: | Ejournals A to Z FAQ (UT Southwestern)
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EndNote
EndNote is a leading bibliographic software program used to search for literature, develop a personal library of references, and create and format citations for papers and publications.
| Help: | EndNote and Reference Manager UT Southwestern Resources |
EZProxy
For off-campus access to ejournals via the Ejournals A-Z list. Other electronic resources must be accessed from off-campus via VPN.
| Help: | EZProxy |
| Tutorial: | EZProxy for E-Z Access to Electronic Journals
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Faculty of 1000 Biology
Faculty of 1000 Biology is an online research tool that highlights the papers in biology based on the recommendations of a large group of leading scientists.
| Help: | Faculty of 1000 Biology FAQ |
Faculty of 1000 Medicine
Faculty of 1000 Medicine is an online research tool that highlights the papers in medicine based on the recommendations of a large group of leading researchers and clinicians.
| Help: | Faculty of 1000 Medicine FAQ |
Find it! @ Library
Describes methods the Library uses to link to full-text electronic journals.
| Help: | Find it! @ Library - UT Southwestern FAQ |
FIRSTConsult
Designed for use at the point of care, MD Consult's FIRSTConsult presents tools for differential diagnosis, evaluation and management of medical topics, patient education, and procedure skills review. This product is comparable to UpToDate; each medical topic is organized into the following key sections making it quick and easy to navigate to the information you require: summary, background, diagnosis, treatment, outcomes, prevention, and additional resources.
| Help: | FIRSTConsult FAQ |
JCR (Impact Factors)
JCR (Journal Citation Reports) Web from ISI provides easy access to data that helps evaluate and compare scholarly journals. Using citation data drawn from more than 8,400 scholarly and technical journals worldwide, JCR Web can show you the highest impact journals, the most frequently used journals, the hottest journals, and the largest journals. Coverage is both multidisciplinary and international and incorporates journals from more than 3,000 publishers in 60 nations.
| Help: | JCR (Impact Factors) Help |
| Tutorial: | JCR (Impact Factors) Tutorial (ISI) |
Library Toolbar
The Library Toolbar allows access to Library resources from any Web page. Some of the other features include news feeds, email, and weather alerts.
| Help: | Library Toolbar at UT Southwestern FAQ Library Toolbar Help and Troubleshooting |
MEDLINE (Ovid)
Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine's premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, allied health, and the preclinical sciences. It contains bibliographic citations (e.g., authors, title, and journal reference) and author abstracts from more than 4,600 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 other countries. MEDLINE contains well over 13 million citations dating back to the mid-1960s.
MEDLINE (PubMed)
Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine's premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, allied health, and the preclinical sciences. It contains bibliographic citations (e.g., authors, title, and journal reference) and author abstracts from more than 4,600 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 other countries. PubMed also contains pre-1996 citations via OLDMEDLINE and links to NCBI sequence and other molecular biology databases. From the National Library of Medicine.
| Tutorial: | PubMed Tutorial (NLM) PubMed Online Training Tutorials (NLM) PubMed Tutorial (University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries) |
MICROMEDEX
Comprehensive drug and toxicology information such as DRUGDEX drug evaluations, IDENTIDEX imprint code identification, REAX drug interactions, TOMES toxicology and hazard data, Martindale Extra Pharmacopeia, and REPRORISK. Does not include POISINDEX.
| Tutorial: | MICROMEDEX Training MICROMEDEX Tutorial |
NCBI Databases
Quick links to the National Center for Biotechnology Information's literature, nucleotide, genome, sequence analysis, data mining, population, taxonomy and other databases.
| Help: | BLAST Program Selection Guide Entrez Gene FAQ |
| Tutorial: | NCBI Blast Tutorial NCBI PSI-Blast Tutorial NCBI Structure Cn3D Tutorial |
| Database: | NCBI Blast NCBI Entrez Gene NCBI Structure Cn3D |
Netscaler VPN
Unlike Cisco VPN, Netscaler VPN doesn't require software to be installed. Netscaler VPN operates through a Web browser. Most applications will work through Netscaler VPN, but for complete access, CISCO VPN may be required.
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PsycINFO
PsycINFO covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines, including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas. Coverage is worldwide and includes references and abstracts to over 1400 journals, to dissertations in more than 30 languages, and to book chapters and books in the English language. Covers 1887 to the present. A service of UT Southwestern and the UT System Libraries.
| Help: | PsycINFO (Ovid) Field Guide |
Reference Manager
Reference Manager® is one of the industry standard software tools for publishing and managing bibliographies on the Windows and Macintosh® desktop. It has network features with simultaneous read/write access to databases.
| Help: | EndNote and Reference Manager UT Southwestern Resources |
ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect is an online platform for scientific research containing the full text of more than 1,500 Elsevier Science journals in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences. Also contains abstracts from non-Elsevier core journals in the major scientific disciplines and the ability to link directly to full-text articles licensed through other STM publishers. Also included is Scirus, a Web search engine which focuses on scientific content only. Scirus searches both web and proprietary databases for information that complements the content available on ScienceDirect. A service of UT Southwestern and the UT System Libraries.
| Tutorial: | ScienceDirect Tutorials ScienceDirect User Guides and Tutorials |
Science of Synthesis
Science of Synthesis is a Web-based, authoritative information source on synthetic chemistry and methodology. Science of Synthesis is based on the book of the same name, the 5th edition of a famous text also known by the combined names of the authors of the first edition: Houben-Weyl. The database also provides access to the Houben-Weyl Archive (1909-2004), a standard reference work for synthetic chemists, which includes some 700,000 references to 580,000 structures and 146,000 product specific experimental procedures.
| Help: | Science of Synthesis Guidebook Science of Synthesis Getting Started Manual |
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SciFinder Scholar™
Provides graphical access to Chemical Abstracts Service and MEDLINE. Covers the full spectrum of chemical and biomedical information, including biochemistry, organic/inorganic chemistry, and chemical engineering/applied chemistry. Substructure and reaction searching are also available. Access to SciFinder Scholar is restricted to affiliated faculty, staff, and students of UT Southwestern, and the UT Southwestern University Hospitals. A service of UT Southwestern and the UT System Libraries.
| Help: | SciFinder Scholar How To Guides |
| Tutorial: | SciFinder Scholar Tutorial (University of California Irvine) |
Scopus
Multidisciplinary scientific database covering 25 million abstracts from over 14,000 titles across 4,000 publishers. Includes journal articles, patents, conference proceedings, and Web sites in the physical sciences, health sciences, life sciences and social sciences. Covers journals from 1966 to the present.
| Help: | Scopus Help |
| Tutorial: | Scopus Tutorial |
University Hospitals Orientation
This UT Southwestern Medical Library orientation tutorial introduces clinical resources and Library services most pertinent to hospital employees.
| Tutorial: | University Hospitals Orientation (UT Southwestern)
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UpToDate®
A comprehensive, evidence-based clinical information resource, designed to give practical answers to clinicians at the point of care. Access is available for faculty, staff, students, residents, and fellows of UT Southwestern Medical Center, thanks to funding from the Office of the Dean, UT Southwestern Medical School. Due to licensing restrictions, UpToDate® is available on-campus or from the UT Southwestern University Hospitals only. UpToDate® cannot be accessed from outside the UT Southwestern campus and University Hospitals. No VPN or EZProxy access is allowed.
| Help: | UpToDate® at UT Southwestern FAQ UpToDate® FAQ |
| Tutorial: | UpToDate Tutorial
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Web of Science
Online version of ISI Citation Indices. Covers over 8,000 international journals in the sciences, social sciences, and the arts and humanities. Science database covers 1975-present (Abstracts from 1991-present). A service of UT Southwestern and the UT System Libraries.
| Tutorial: | Web of Science Tutorial (ISI) |
Wireless Access On Campus
Wireless access refers to using a laptop or PDA on campus to access campus systems and services (like electronic journals, Mednet servers, etc.) without being tied to the network by cabling.
| Help: | Wireless Access |
| Tutorial: | Cisco VPN and Wireless Access (Windows XP) E-learning Session |