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PubMed

PubMed is an ideal place to begin your biomedical research. Any full text links that say "PubMed Central" or "PMC" will route you the free full-text content of an article. If a full text link routes you to a publisher page that prompts you to pay for full-text access, return to the PubMed article information, look for the journal title, volume, and issue, and plug that information into Journal Finder to see if the Rice Library has a full text version.

Remember, if we don't have it, you can request an electronic copy via Interlibrary Loan!

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PubMed comprises more than 28 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites. If no full text links are provided, or if you are routed to a publisher site with a paywall, check an article's availability in the Rice Library's databases with the Journal Finder tool.
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PubMed Central (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).
Does not require USI login.

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CINAHL Plus This link opens in a new window
The CINAHL Plus collection provides full-text access to nursing and allied health journals. Use CINAHL to find evidence based literature, RCTs, clinical trials, systematic reviews, and more. To expand your resource pool within this platform, click on "Choose Databases" (above the top search field) and select "Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition" and "MEDLINE with Full Text".
Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window
A database of systematic reviews
ProQuest This link opens in a new window
Searches the following ProQuest databases: Health Research Premium Collection, ProQuest One Business, Literature Online, ProQuest Ebook Central, Periodicals Archive, Chicago Tribune Historical, New York Times Historical, Wall Street Journal (Recent)
DynaMed This link opens in a new window
DynaMed is a clinical decision support system that provides clinicians with evidence-based information for quick answers at the point of care.

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