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AccessMedicine

Approximately 100 e-books, including a clinical library (Harrison's Online, CURRENT Medical Diagnosis and Treatment, and more), Lange Educational Library, and a USMLE self-assessment tool and 50+ clinical cases.

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Research or Private Study? Yes
Linking? Yes
Learning Management System? Yes
Text and Data Mining? No
Alumni Access? No
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Access Medicine - Case Files

Updated regularly, this comprehensive collection helps students learn and apply basic science and clinical medicine concepts in the context of realistic patient cases.

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Research or Private Study? Yes
Linking? Yes
Learning Management System? Yes
Text and Data Mining? No
Alumni Access? No
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DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals

Independent database of over 17,000 open access journals

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This is a freely accessible resource protected under copyright. Please check the resource website for Terms and Conditions regarding use restrictions.

MEDLINE (via Web of Science)

Access through the Web of Science platform. MEDLINE® is the US National Library of Medicine's bibliographic database containing citations and abstracts for biomedical literature from around the world.

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Research or Private Study? Yes
Linking? Yes
Learning Management System? Yes
Text and Data Mining? No
Alumni Access? No
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Public Library of Science (PLOS)

Access to PLOS Open Access journals: PLOS One, PLOS Biology, PLOS Medicine, PLOS Genetics, PLOS Computational Biology, PLOS Pathogens, PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases.

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This is a library-subscribed resource protected under copyright. Please check the resource website for terms and conditions regarding use restrictions. Please note that Canadian privacy laws do not apply to personal information you provide when using this resource. If you require assistance, please contact us here.

SpringerOpen

SpringerOpen includes Open Access journals & books from all areas of science, technology, medicine, the humanities and social sciences.

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Cambridge University Press

The Cambridge Core platform provides access to over 30,000 ebooks and more than 380 peer-reviewed journals in subjects as diverse as astronomy, Shakespeare studies, economics, mathematics and politics.

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Research or Private Study? Yes
Linking? Yes
Learning Management System? Yes
Text and Data Mining? No
Alumni Access? Yes
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HeinOnline

Provides access to multidisciplinary periodicals, government documents, international resources, case law. Full-text access to legal journals and other legal materials, from volume 1 of each title.

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Linking? Yes
Learning Management System? Yes
Text and Data Mining? No
Alumni Access? No
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JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments) Research

UBC Library has access to JoVE Research:

  • JoVE Journal with 13 sections: Behavior, Biochemistry, Bioengineering, Biology, Cancer Research, Chemistry, Developmental Biology, Engineering, Environment, Genetics, Immunology and Infection, Medicine, Neuroscience
  • JoVE Encyclopedia of Experiments

JoVE Research: Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) is a peer-reviewed journal publishing laboratory protocols in a video format. UBC has access to all 13 journal sections, and JoVE Encyclopedia of Experiments.

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Research or Private Study? Yes
Linking? Yes
Learning Management System? Yes
Text and Data Mining? No
Alumni Access? No
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LWW Health Library

NOTE: To print chapters to PDF and access case studies and self assessment quizzes, create a "Free Personal Account" on the LWW Health Library site.

Protection of Privacy Notice

The Library is providing access to LWW Health Library to you for your convenience. Please be advised that although you may be asked to submit personal information and create an account, the personal information you disclose will be stored on servers outside of Canada. You can still access and use BMJ Best Practice without creating an account. If you choose to use this service, no personal information about you is collected by or for UBC. Canadian privacy laws do not apply to personal information you provide directly to the BMJ. For more information please review the BMJ Best Practice Privacy Policy.

 

Selected collections include Pharmacy, Exercise Science, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Speech Language Hearing, Medical Education, and Internal Medicine. See under More to find links to a specific specialty.

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Sage Journals Online

SAGE Journals Online is the delivery platform that provides online access to the full text of individual SAGE journals.

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Research or Private Study? Yes
Linking? Yes
Learning Management System? Yes
Text and Data Mining? Ask
Alumni Access? Yes
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Scopus

Comprehensive abstract and citation database with enriched data and linked scholarly literature across a wide variety of disciplines including science, technology, medicine, social science, arts and humanities.

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Research or Private Study? Yes
Linking? Yes
Learning Management System? Yes
Text and Data Mining? Ask
Alumni Access? No
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Airiti Library

TEPS includes 80% of Taiwanese academic journal articles; CETD Thesis. Some content from Airiti Library not available.

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Research or Private Study? Yes
Linking? Yes
Learning Management System? Yes
Text and Data Mining? No
Alumni Access? Yes
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Annual Reviews

Literature reviews and topic overviews in the sciences and social sciences.

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Research or Private Study? Yes
Linking? Yes
Learning Management System? Yes
Text and Data Mining? No
Alumni Access? Yes
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BioMed Central

BioMed Central publishes 290+ peer-reviewed open access journals. UBC Library pays for a Supporters Membership which entitles UBC authors to a 15% discount on the article-processing charge.

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ClinicalKey

Additional features, including a presentation maker, the ability to download PDF versions of ebook chapters, customize patient handouts or save content in a personal profile, are available to users who create a free account.  Click 'Register' at the top right of the ClinicalKey landing page to create a free account.  

ClinicalKey provides access to FirstConsult, top journals, best-selling medical and surgical books, thousands of medical videos, millions of images, and much more content across 12 distinct content types.

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Research or Private Study? Yes
Linking? Yes
Learning Management System? Yes
Text and Data Mining? No
Alumni Access? No
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Colloquium Digital Library of Life Sciences

Colloquium provides access to short (50-120 pp) electronic books (referred to as "lectures") that synthesize an essential scientific topic in the biomedical/life sciences.

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Research or Private Study? Yes
Linking? Yes
Learning Management System? Yes
Text and Data Mining? No
Alumni Access? No
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DynaMed

DynaMed is the next-generation clinical reference tool for fast, easy access to point-of-care decision support. A point-of-care reference tool containing clinically-oriented summaries for 3,200+ topics.

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Research or Private Study? Yes
Linking? Yes
Learning Management System? Yes
Text and Data Mining? No
Alumni Access? No
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IOP electronic journals & Journal archive

IOPscience is an online service for journal content published by IOP Publishing. IOPscience embraces innovative technologies to make it easier for researchers to access scientific, technical and medical content.

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Research or Private Study? Yes
Linking? Yes
Learning Management System? Yes
Text and Data Mining? Yes
Alumni Access? Ask
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Journals@OVID - LWW

E-journal collection covering medicine, nursing, rehabilitation sciences and dentistry.

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Research or Private Study? Yes
Linking? Yes
Learning Management System? No
Text and Data Mining? No
Alumni Access? No
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MEDLINE (Ovid)

Premier biomedical database with over 36 million life sciences journal articles from ~6000 journals since1946. Content matches PubMed and operating system supports editable structured searching with links to full text.

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Research or Private Study? Yes
Linking? Yes
Learning Management System? No
Text and Data Mining? No
Alumni Access? No
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MEDLINE (via EBSCOhost)

Premier international index to biomedical research covering nearly 6000 journals and indexing over 26 million citations from 1946 to present.

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Research or Private Study? Yes
Linking? Yes
Learning Management System? Yes
Text and Data Mining? No
Alumni Access? No
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National Academies Press (NAP)

4000+ free ebooks on science, engineering, and health.

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This is a freely accessible resource protected under copyright. Please check the resource website for Terms and Conditions regarding use restrictions.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online

Access is available to all residents within British Columbia via the "Points to the Past" Portal HERE.

Fully-searchable primary documents arranged in subject-specific archives. Encompasses a variety of disciplines from History to Literature to Women's studies to Science

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Research or Private Study? Yes
Linking? Yes
Learning Management System? Yes
Text and Data Mining? No
Alumni Access? Yes
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PubMed (1946 - present)

Note: Direct link to full text or UBC's Citation Linker using the "Download PDF" icon on PubMed. Alumni and non-UBC users will have limited access to full-text articles from off-campus.

My NCBI update - Sept 2021: My NCBI is in the process of transitioning from NCBI-managed credentials to federated/3rd party credentials, which can be linked to an existing My NCBI account (FAQ). UBC researchers are encouraged to use ORCID credentials to log in to My NCBI. ORCID enables transparent and trustworthy connections between researchers, their contributions, and their affiliations by providing a unique, persistent identifier for individuals to use as they engage in research, scholarship, and innovation activities. Other federated sign-in options include Google, Microsoft, and Facebook.

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Premier biomedical database with over 30 million journal article references. Freely available and includes MEDLINE.

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REDCap Shared Library

The following resource is to provide a list of standardized tests and measures that work within the REDCap system. 

If you are interested in using the data collection instruments in the REDCap Shared Library, please visit https://arc.ubc.ca/redcap for information on requesting access to the UBC ARC REDCap Platform. If you have any questions regarding the UBC ARC REDCap Platform, please email redcap.support@ubc.ca.

The REDCap Shared Library is a repository for REDCap data collection instruments and forms that can be downloaded and used by researchers at REDCap partner institutions. UBC specific access is provided separately.

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This is a freely accessible resource protected under copyright. Please check the resource website for Terms and Conditions regarding use restrictions.

BMJ Best Practice

Protection of Privacy Notice

The Library is providing access to BMJ Best Practice to you for your convenience. Please be advised that although you may be asked to submit personal information and create an account, the personal information you disclose will be stored on servers outside of Canada. You can still access and use BMJ Best Practice without creating an account. If you choose to use this service, no personal information about you is collected by or for UBC. Canadian privacy laws do not apply to personal information you provide directly to the BMJ. For more information please review the BMJ Best Practice Privacy Policy.

BMJ Best Practice offers a step-by-step evidence-based approach to clinical problems throughout the patient journey. Includes access to Comorbidities tool and mobile app.

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Research or Private Study? Yes
Linking? Yes
Learning Management System? Yes
Text and Data Mining? No
Alumni Access? No
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Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL)

User limit: 50 maximum

Citations to controlled trials identified by the contributors of the Cochrane Collaboration.

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Research or Private Study? Yes
Linking? Yes
Learning Management System? No
Text and Data Mining? No
Alumni Access? No
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Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR)

User limit: 50 maximum

Full-text access to regularly updated systematic reviews by the Cochrane Collaboration. Includes completed systematic reviews and review protocols in development.

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Research or Private Study? Yes
Linking? Yes
Learning Management System? No
Text and Data Mining? No
Alumni Access? No
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Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE)

User limit: 50 maximum

The collection of reviews of reviews provides critical assessments of systematic reviews. It was produced by the UK National Health Services' Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (NHS CRD) between 1994 and March 2015.

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Research or Private Study? Yes
Linking? Yes
Learning Management System? No
Text and Data Mining? No
Alumni Access? No
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Embase (Ovid)

International (and European-focused) biomedical database with strengths in drug-related and rehabilitation sciences subjects.

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Research or Private Study? Yes
Linking? Yes
Learning Management System? Yes
Text and Data Mining? No
Alumni Access? No
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Health and Psychosocial Instruments (OvidSP)

User limit: 5 maximum

Database of records providing comprehensive, accurate information about measurement tools and instruments used in health, sociology and psychology and produced by the Behavioral Measurement Database Services.

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This is a library-subscribed resource protected under copyright. Please check the resource website for terms and conditions regarding use restrictions. Please note that Canadian privacy laws do not apply to personal information you provide when using this resource. If you require assistance, please contact us here.

JAMA Network: American Medical Association

JAMA Network includes JAMA, other American Medical Association journals and archives.

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Research or Private Study? Yes
Linking? Yes
Learning Management System? Yes
Text and Data Mining? No
Alumni Access? No
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JBI

You will need to create an Ovid personal account in order to access and use some of the EBP Tools.

Please Log Off when session finished.

JBI EBP includes 3,000+ records & many publication types: Evidence Based Recommended Practices and Summaries, Best Practice Information Sheets, Systematic Reviews, Consumer Information & Reports

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Research or Private Study? Yes
Linking? Yes
Learning Management System? No
Text and Data Mining? No
Alumni Access? No
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Read

PRIVACY NOTICE: UBC Library makes READ by QxMD available for you for your convenience. Downloading the App and your use of READ by QxMD is voluntary. Please be advised that the personal information you disclose when creating an account is stored on servers outside of Canada. You will be asked to accept their Privacy Policy when you create an account.  When you use the App, no personal information about you is collected by or for UBC. Canadian privacy laws do not apply to personal information you provide when creating an account.

Your creation of an account and use of the QxMD App is an implicit acknowledgement that you have read, and agree with, this notice.

‘Read by QxMD’ provides a single place to discover new research, read outstanding topic reviews and search PubMed.

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