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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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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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Acland's Video Atlas of Human Anatomy

PRIVACY NOTICE: UBC Library makes Acland's Visual Atlas available for you for your convenience. Your use of this resource is voluntary. Please be advised that the personal information you disclose when creating an account is stored on servers located outside of Canada. When you use this resource, no personal information about you is collected by or for UBC. Canadian privacy laws do not apply to personal information you provide when using this resource. Please review Acland's Anatomy Privacy Policy on their website before using this resource if you have any concerns.

Series of anatomy lessons on video using unembalmed human specimens to illustrate anatomical structures.

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ACP Journal Club

User limit: 50 maximum

Concise evaluative commentaries on original studies and reviews from key clinical journals. By the American College of Physicians (ACP).

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AnatomyTV

Interactive 3D anatomy tool

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Annual Reviews

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

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Bates’ Visual Guide to Physical Examination, 5th edition (Streaming Videos)

Bates’ Visual Guide to Physical Examination is an updated collection of online videos of the classic textbook on physical examination and history taking.

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BioCyc

BioCyc is a collection of 14560 Pathway/Genome Databases (PGDBs), plus software tools for exploring them.

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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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BMJ Best Practice

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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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Books@OVID

Collection of full text e-books for medicine, nursing and pharmacy. Includes The ICU Book, Drugs in Pregnancy and Lactation, and the Joanna Briggs Institute series on Synthesis Science in Healthcare.

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Canadian Medical Directory online

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Canada's key medical directory listing 83,000+ physicians and medical specialists. Also lists hospitals, healthcare associations, government ministries, medical bodies, etc.

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Chromosomal Variation in Man (Online Database)

Collection of important citations of common and rare chromosomal alterations and abnormalities in humans from 1974 to the present.

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Clinical Anatomy

Clinical anatomy resource hub created by the UBC Department of Anatomy

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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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Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL)

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

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Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR)

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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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Cochrane Methodology Register (CMR)

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Database of studies relevant to the methodology of systematic reviews in healthcare and social interventions.

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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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Covidence

PRIVACY NOTICE: UBC Library makes the Covidence service available for you for your convenience. Your use of Covidence is voluntary. Please be advised that the personal information you disclose when creating an account is stored on servers located in the United States. When you 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 to Covidence. Please review the Covidence Privacy Policy on their website before using this service if you have any concerns.

To sign in or create an account, go to: https://support.covidence.org/help/the-university-of-british-columbia

Covidence supports systematic, scoping and comprehensive reviews. Streamlines screening, data extraction, and quality appraisal for all disciplines.

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CPS (formerly RxTx)

Comprehensive drug information resource produced by the Canadian Pharmacists Association. Includes CPS Drug Information, Therapeutic Choices, Minor Ailments, and the Lexi-Interact drug interactions module.

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Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE)

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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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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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EBM Reviews (Ovid)

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One-stop searching of 7 evidence-based medicine databases in the Cochrane Library.

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Eighteenth Century Collections Online

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

Eighteenth Century Collections Online delivers every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in Great Britain during the 18th century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.

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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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Functional Neuroanatomy

Neuroanatomy resource hub created by the UBC Department of Anatomy

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Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine

Basic information & journal articles on consumer health, allied health, medicine, nursing.

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Health and Psychosocial Instruments (OvidSP)

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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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Health Technology Assessment (OvidSP)

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Database of health technology assessments (studies of the medical, social, ethical and economic implications of healthcare interventions).

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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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JAMA Network: American Medical Association

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

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JAMAevidence

JAMAevidence provides guides to the systematic consideration of the validity, importance, and applicability of claims about the assessment of health problems and the outcomes of health care.

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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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Journals@OVID - LWW

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

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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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KRpia (Korean Database)

Full text database for Korean Studies covering history, literature, dictionaries and traditional medicines.

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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.

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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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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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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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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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MedlinePlus (Consumer Health)

Freely-searchable consumer health information site linking to simple overviews, dictionaries, directories, organizations and news for ~750 topics.

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Merck Index Online

Online version of The Merck Index: searchable database of information on chemicals, drugs and biologicals.

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Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy

The online edition of the professional version of this medical textbook. Covers internal medicine, pediatrics, ophthalmology, gynecology, rehabilitation and numerous other specialties.

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National Academies Press (NAP)

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

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Native Health Database

Indexes journal articles, reports, surveys, and other resource documents pertaining to the health and health care of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Canadian First Nations.

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NatMed Pro

Evidence-based, peer-reviewed syntheses of data on complementary and alternative therapies. Includes information on supplements, diets, exercise techniques, and more.

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NHS Economic Evaluation Database

User limit: 50 maximum

Identifies and describes economic evaluations, appraising quality and highlighting strengths and weaknesses. Produced by UK National Health Services' Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (NHS CRD) 1995 - March 2015.

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OMMBID: The Online Metabolic & Molecular Bases of Inherited Disease

Compendium of information on the molecular and metabolic underpinnings of a growing list of inherited diseases, as well as their pathophysiology and treatment.

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Oxford Medicine Online

The digital platform hosts Oxford University Press' medical titles; over 1000 books in the collection.

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PsychiatryOnline

Psychiatric references and journals from American Psychiatric Publishing, featuring DSM-5 and The American Journal of Psychiatry.

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PsycInfo (Includes full text from PsycArticles) (via EBSCO)

From the American Psychological Association. Covers psychology and the psychological aspects of various other disciplines: journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, plus citations to dissertations.

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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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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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Reaching Teens - 2nd Edition

Produced by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), this multimedia resource explores and demonstrates communication strategies for diverse health care and educational settings.

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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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Red Book Online

From the American Academy of Pediatrics, provides up-to-date, reliable, clinically useful findings on the manifestations, etiology, epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment of over 200 childhood infectious diseases.

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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.

Royal College of Physicians archive

The Royal College of Physicians archive, which ranges from the year 1205 through 1980, reflects the history and development of modern Western medicine.

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Linking? Yes
Learning Management System? Yes
Text and Data Mining? No
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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Learning Management System? Yes
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Springer Nature Experiments

Springer Nature Experiments brings together more than 50,000 protocols and methods from SpringerProtocols, Nature Methods, Nature Protocols and Protocol Exchange.

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Wiley Digital Archives

Digitized archives of academic and scientific societies. UBC Library has purchased 4 archives: Royal College of Physicians, Royal Anthropological Institute, New York Academy of Sciences, and Royal Geographical Society.

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UBC Only

Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)
Research or Private Study? Yes
Linking? Yes
Learning Management System? Yes
Text and Data Mining? No
Alumni Access? Yes
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