AMED
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Allied and Complimentary Medicines Database, with a focus on complimentary medicine, palliative care, and professions allied to medicine
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ASSIA
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Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts; includes literature from psychology, sociology, medicine, anthropology, politics, and law
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CENTRAL
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Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials; summary details of published and unpublished trials
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CINAHL
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Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature. Includes over 2.6 million records dating back to 1981; books and dissertations also included
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EMBASE
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Excerpta Medica Database covers biomedical and pharmacological literature
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ERIC
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Education Resources Information Center (ERIC); described as the world’s largest database of educational literature
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HMIC
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The Health Management Information Consortium; brings together the bibliographic databases of two UK health and social care management systems: the Dept of Health’s library and information services and King’s Fund information and library services. Includes grey literature
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MEDLINE
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Covers health-related journals worldwide, focusing on evidence/research based work; includes in-process and non-indexed items
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PsycINFO
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Abstract database providing systematic coverage of psychological literature as far back as the 1800s
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PubMed
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Includes Medline, plus a comprehensive and broad-ranging selection of health-related journals and books
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Discovery
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University of Edinburgh accumulated databases and resources
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