Research Guides: Research and Writing for Respiratory Therapy: Research Tools and Databases

Library Databases and External Links

fUSIon This link opens in a new window
The fUSIon discovery tool allows you to simultaneously search the Rice Library's catalog (books and ebooks), digital archival collections, subscription databases, and online research guides.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
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.
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".
MEDLINE with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Full text access to journals in medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and pre-clinical sciences.
ProQuest Health Research Premium Collection This link opens in a new window
Health Research Premium Collection serves a wide range of users with a broad collection of journals, evidence-based resources, and full-text dissertations, and includes the top ProQuest health and medical databases.
Biomedical Reference Collection This link opens in a new window
Designed for doctors, research scientists, students and clinical specialists, this medical database provides over 100 full-text journals, including full-text for many peer-reviewed publications.
Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window
A database of systematic reviews
Statista This link opens in a new window
Statista provides statistics and data within 600 industries and 50+ countries. Statista also contains a variety of industry or topic overview dossiers and reports, as well as shareable data visualizations and infographics that can be exported in a variety of file formats, including .pdf, .xlsx, and .pptx
Web of Science Core Collection This link opens in a new window
Web of Science Core Collection contains over 21,100 peer-reviewed, high-quality scholarly journals published worldwide (including Open Access journals) in over 250 sciences, social sciences, and arts & humanities disciplines. Conference proceedings and book data are also available.

Trip (Turning Research Into Practice)
Trip is a clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care. Allows users to search both by keywords/terms and by PICO elements.
Google Scholar
Allows you to search for scholarly material online; best used to track citations.
CiteSeerX
CiteSeerx is an evolving scientific literature digital library and search engine.
HealthData.gov
A useful repository of health-relevant datasets and information provided by the US Department of Health and Human Services
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
The main site for the CDC. Useful for finding public/government information about particular disease conditions, data, and other resources (including links to recent research)
MedPix
MedPix® is a free open-access online database of medical images, teaching cases, and clinical topics, provided by the National Library of Medicine
PHIL (Public Health Image LIbrary)
A collection of health-relevant images and illustrations for free use, provided by the CDC
AirNow.gov
AirNow reports air quality using the official U.S. Air Quality Index (AQI), a color-coded index designed to communicate whether air quality is healthy or unhealthy.

Searching With Boolean Operators
A basic video guide to some of the tips and tricks for more effective keyword searching
Building Complex Search Statements
A basic video guide to some more tips and tricks for more effective keyword searching
Evaluating Sources
Five basic tips for deciding which sources to trust (checking for expertise, understanding peer review, understanding the Information Cycle, etc.)

LibKey Nomad Browser Extension for Finding Full Text

LibKey Nomad Extension (Chrome)
Add this extension to your Chrome browser for immediate access to library materials in PubMed and other external sites and resources.
LibKey Nomad Extension (Firefox)
Add this extension to your Forefox browser for immediate access to library materials in PubMed and other external sites and resources

For more detailed instructions to install Libkey Nomad and link it to USI's library collections (as well as some other really useful browser tools), check out our Browser Extensions for Online Research Guide.

Journal Finder

Journal Finder
Use Journal Finder to search for full text access to a specific journal.

DOI Search

DOI Search
Use LibKey Nomad to search by DOI or other identifiers