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CINAHL Select is a valuable resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators, and researchers. This database contains more than 170 full-text journals with PDF coverage back as far as 1973 including 120 peer-reviewed publications. All journals in this collection are indexed in CINAHL. CINAHL Select is updated on a weekly basis, and complementary access is available through the UT Southwestern Library's subscription to CINAHL Plus with Full Text. Provided by UT Southwestern and TexShare.
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.
Browsable and searchable, Ejournals A to Z alphabetically lists all biomedical, academic, and general interest ejournals licensed by UT Southwestern.
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.
EZProxy
For off-campus access to ejournals via the Ejournals A-Z list. Other electronic resources must be accessed from off-campus via VPN.
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.
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.
Describes methods the Library uses to link to full-text electronic journals.
Provides easy access to data that helps evaluate and compare scholarly journals. Contains data from more than 5,900 journals in science and technology (JCR Science Edition) and more than 1,700 journals in the social sciences (JCR Social Sciences Edition). Select a year to begin your search for information published in that year (e.g., selecting "2003" will yield the number of articles published in journals in 2003, the number of citations to journals from articles published in 2003, etc.).
Library Orientation
These UT Southwestern Medical Library orientation tutorials introduce the Library resources and services.
The Library Toolbar allows access to Library resources from any Web page. Some of the other features include news feeds, email, and weather alerts.
The U.S. National Library of Medicine’s database of peer-reviewed literature that covers research in medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, allied health, and the preclinical sciences. Contains 18 million article citations and abstracts from more than 5,200 peer-reviewed journals dating back to 1950. Off-campus access provides easy access to the Library’s ejournals and is available through two login methods: (1) a personal login, which is available to UT Southwestern affiliates only, or (2) EZProxy login to the generic version.
The U.S. National Library of Medicine’s database of peer-reviewed literature that covers research in medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, allied health, and the preclinical sciences. Contains 18 million article citations and abstracts from more than 5,200 peer-reviewed journals dating back to 1948. Easy access to the Library’s ejournals is available through a customized PubMed version, which may be accessed from the Library Web site. Off-campus access to this customized version is available through EZProxy.
Provides a wide range of evidence based information as well as access to English and Spanish patient education handouts. Features comprehensive drug details (DRUGDEX®), drug interactions (DRUG-REAX®), imprint code identification (IDENTIDEX®), toxicology and hazard data (TOMES®), identification and management of drug overdoses and toxicologic exposures (POSINDEX®), evaluation of human reproductive risks of drugs (REPRORISK®), and answers to IV drug compatibility questions (IV INDEX®).
Quick links to the National Center for Biotechnology Information's literature, nucleotide, genome, sequence analysis, data mining, population, taxonomy and other databases.
Covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines, including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas. Includes references and abstracts to more than 2,000 journals, as well as selected dissertations, book chapters, and books in the English language. Covers 1860 to the present. Provided by UT Southwestern and the UT System Libraries.
Contains an extensive repository of experimentally validated data that chemists need, such as structures, reactions (including multi-step reactions), and physical properties. Provides relevant data not found elsewhere, drawn from source publications carefully selected for their importance and relevance to synthetic chemists. Includes Beilstein, Gmelin, and Patent Chemistry Database content, as well as information on inorganic and organometallic substances. Currently available on a complimentary basis, with full licensing beginning in January 2010. Provided jointly by UT Southwestern Medical Center Library and the Department of Biochemistry.
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.
Contains full-text 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 science, techncology, and medicine publishers. Includes Scirus, a Web search engine that focuses on scientific content only and searches both Web and proprietary databases for information that complements ScienceDirect content. Provided by UT Southwestern and the UT System Libraries.
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 is restricted to affiliated faculty, staff, and students of UT Southwestern, and the UT Southwestern University Hospitals. Provided by UT Southwestern and the UT System Libraries.
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. Provided by UT Southwestern and the UT System Libraries.
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.
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.
Cisco Virtual Private Networking (VPN) is security software that is used for accessing restricted UT Southwestern systems from the Internet.
Juniper SSL VPN is a web alternative that provides access to UT Southwestern resources through either a secure Web gateway (for Web resources only) or a client download (for a more secure connection to the UT Southwestern network). Note: Although Juniper VPN is now the recommended VPN option from Information Resources, there are no plans to disable Cisco VPN at this time.
Covers more than 10,000 high-impact journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities, as well as international proceedings coverage for over 120,000 conferences. Includes cited reference searching and Citation Maps (i.e., a graphical representation that shows citation relationships between a paper and other papers). Science database covers 1975 to the present. Provided by UT Southwestern and the UT System Libraries.
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. Please note that you need to be on-campus or using VPN to access the resources below.
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