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Biomedical
MEDLINE
The premier bibliographic database in medicine and related disciplines, indexing more than 4000 journals
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OVID
EBSCOhost
PubMed
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (1993 to present only)

UpToDate
UpToDate is a full-text collection of regularly updated clinical summaries in Internal Medicine, Ob/Gyn, Family Medicine, and Pediatrics. It is available on the Shreveport campus through support from these departments and the library. Licensing restrictions do not permit off-campus access to UpToDate.
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ACP PIER
The Physicians' Information & Education Resource (PIER) from the American College of Physicians is a Web-based decision-support tool designed for rapid point-of-care delivery of up-to-date, evidence-based guidance for clinicians. Modules present succint guideance statements and practice recommendations, with a more detailed explanations of rationale and supporting evidence available at any point. All modules are reviewed on at least a quarterly basis.
Available through:
the American College of Physicians
Stat!Ref

InfoPOEMS/InfoRetriever
POEMS (patient oriented evidence that matters) are summaries of the findings of critically appraised studies taken from more than 100 journals. Each POEM recieves a Level of Evidence ranking according to the Oxford Center for Evidence Based Medicine system. New POEMs appear monthly. Inforetriever is a database covering all archived POEMs and seven other databases.
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CINAHL
Cumulated Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature. Indexes > 1,300 journals, plus selected books, book chapters, theses, dissertations, and patient education materials
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OVID
EbscoHOST

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Full text of nearly 600 journals; indexing & abstracting for about 250 more
Available through:
EbscoHOST

Nursing & Allied Health Collection, Comprehensive
Nearly 400 full text journals, with indexing & abstracting of additional titles
Available through:
EbscoHOST

The Cochrane Library
The Cochrane Databases on Evidence-Based Medicine (full text). Note that LSUHSC-S has moved to a new vendor for access to Cochrane. The previous version will remain available through the end of November, 2004.
Cochrane Library (new version)
Cochrane Library (previous version, available through 11/31/2004)

MDConsult
An online collection of resources for clinicians. It includes a version of MEDLINE with full text of about 55 journals, a searchable collection of 49 books, and patient education information. Access is IP validated, but first-time users must also register and select a userID and password
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STAT!Ref
A collection of electronic books covering many clinical subjects. Access is limited to the campus of LSUHSC/Shreveport.
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Web of Science: Science Citation Index
A Web-accessible version of Science Citation Index. Covers 1998 - present. IP Validated.
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MICROMEDEX
A full text drug information database. Requires LSUHSC (LSUMC-MASTER) userID & password. If using Netscape or Mozilla, login with your LSUHSC userID and password. If using Internet Explorer on older versions of Windows, login with your LSUHSC userID and password, entering lsumc-master where prompted for domain. If using Internet Explorer on Windows XP, precede your userID with the domain name lsumc-master, followed by a backslash, e.g. lsumc-master\userID.
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GIDEON
A user-friendly online infectious diseases knowledge management tool. Covers diagnosis, epidemiology, therapy, and microbiology. Requires Internet Explorer 5.0+ or Netscape 6.0+.
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Clinical Pharmacology
Available through:
EBSCOhost

The Human Genome
A browsable "working draft" of the human genome from the National Center for Biotechnology Information
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Louisiana Morbidity Reports
An index to state morbidity reports created and maintained by the LSUHSC/New Orleans library
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Biological Abstracts
1990 - present
Available through:
EbscoHOST

TOXNET
A collection of full text and bibliographic toxicology databases.
Search TOXNET via National Library of Medicine
Search TOXLINE from 1994 forward on Cambridge Science Abstracts (only the TOXLINE component of TOXNET is available through CSA).

Academic Search Premier
A multidisciplinary database with substantial free text content from many scholarly journals. Covers most areas of academic study including medical sciences, social sciences, humanities, education, physical sciences and engineering.
Available through:
EBSCOhost

Social Sciences
PsycINFO
An index to the academic, research and practice literature in the behavioral sciences. Covers journals, books, book chapters, dissertations, technical reports, and other documents
Available through:
EBSCOhost

Sociological Abstracts
Available through:
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts

Social Services Abstracts
Available through:
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts

Other Science
MathSciNet
A database of mathematical reviews on the web.
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Business
Academic Universe
A collection of business and legal databases from LEXIS-NEXIS
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Business Source Premier
Full text of nearly 3,050 business sources, including scholarly journals, economic reports, and profiles of the world's 5000 largest companies
Available through:
EBSCOhost

Humanities
Art Abstracts
Indexing & abstracting for 378 leading international art publications
Available through:
EbscoHOST

Miscellaneous
IRIS and OPS
Grant information
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OCLC FirstSearch
A catalog of books, web resources and other materials worldwide
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Oxford English Dictionary
An online searchable version of the standard reference work
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Dissertation Abstracts
Index to theses & dissertations in approximately 3,000 subject areas, 1861 to present
Available through:
ProQuest

ERIC
Indexes journals, technical reports, and other documents on education
Available through:
EBSCOhost
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts

Library Literature & Information Science Full Text
Indexes periodicals, books, conference proceedings, theses, and pamphlets in library science
Available through:
EbscoHOST

The Serials Directory
Provides basic bibliographic information and pricing structure for more than 180,000 US and international titles.
Available through:
EbscoHOST

MLA Bibliography
The Modern Language Association's index of journal articles, dissertations, monographs, conference proceedings, and other materials dealing with modern languages, literature, linguistics and folklore
Available through:
EbscoHOST