Research Guides: Systematic Reviews for Psychology in Shanghai: Databases

Databases

EBSCO Discovery Service This link opens in a new window
EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) encompasses articles in databases across many disciplines. Users can locate peer reviewed articles, videos, audio files, images, and more from a range of subjects.

Full download of DRM-protected ebooks requires EBSCO account registration and Adobe Digital Editions.

PsycInfo
The PsycINFO database covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas. Coverage is worldwide and includes references and abstracts to journals, dissertations, book chapters and books in the English language. Popular literature is excluded.

EMBASE: Excerpta Medica 1974 – present (updated daily) This link opens in a new window
EMBASE is a biomedical and pharmaceutical database indexing over 3,500 international journals in the following fields: drug research, pharmacology, pharmaceutics, toxicology, clinical and experimental human medicine, health policy and management, public health, occupational health, environmental health, drug dependence and abuse, psychiatry, forensic medicine, and biomedical engineering/instrumentation. There is selective coverage for nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, psychology, and alternative medicine. Dates of coverage: 1974 to present (updated daily)
Medline via PubMed This link opens in a new window
PubMed comprises over 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. PubMed citations and abstracts include the fields of biomedicine and health, covering portions of the life sciences, behavioral sciences, chemical sciences, and bioengineering. PubMed also provides access to additional relevant web sites and links to the other NCBI molecular biology resources.
Web of Science Core Collection This link opens in a new window
Web of Science Core Collection is a multidisciplinary citation index that includes scholarly articles, conference proceedings, and books in the biomedical, psychosocial, and arts and humanities. The collections contain Science Citation, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts and Humanities Citation Index , Conference Proceedings Citation Index, Book Citation Index, Emerging Sources Citation Index and Current Chemical Reactions index.
Cochrane Library (includes: CDSR, DARE, CCTR, HTA, NHSEED, CRG's) This link opens in a new window
The Cochrane Library provides access to systematic reviews in addition to other sources of reliable information, from other systematic review abstracts, technology assessments, economic evaluations and individual clinical trials. Includes Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews(CDSR), Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE), Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), Cochrane Methodology Register (CMR), NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHSEED), and Health Technology Assessment Database (HTA).
CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window
CINAHL indexes over 3,800 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, with indexing for selected journals back to 1937. Topics covered are related to nursing, physical therapy, health education, social service/healthcare, occupational therapy, and related disciplines. CINAHL also provides access to healthcare books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of professional practice, educational software and audiovisual materials in nursing. Dates of coverage: 1937 to present.

Google Scholar
Subset of Google that covers journal articles, theses, books and abstracts. NOTE: It is not clear how much of the literature is included in Google Scholar.
Databases in Other Subjects
NYU Libraries subscribes to databases covering most disciplines, including statistics and other potentially relevant areas.
Custom Search across Health Technologies Assessment Agencies
Type your terms in the box that appears on the new (otherwise blank) tab or page. The Custom Google Search will search most of the following collections for you:
International Health Technology websites, as compiled by the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health. searches sites including:
The University of Birmingham's West Midlands Health Technology Assessment Collaboration (WMHTAC) at http://www.wmhtac.bham.ac.uk,
Britain's National Coordinating Center's journal Health Technology Assessment (ISSN 2046-4924) at http://www.hta.ac.uk/,
Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services, a part of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health at http://www.kunnskapssenteret.no...,
Linköpings University in Sweden http://www.cmt.liu.se/pub/jsp/p...,
University of Birmingham http://pcpoh.bham.ac.uk/publich...
Cochrane: resources for evidence based healthcare
The Cochrane Collaboration hosts some of the most important print and online resources for evidence-based health care and medicine. Includes: Books, articles;Databases;Journals; Patient resources; and Tutorials & Tools;
Finding studies for systematic reviews by University of York & NHS-NIHR
Comprehensive list of databases to search.

5 Tips for searching PubMed (video)

Searching Tips: PubMed

Quick Video on the New PubMed
This 2-minute video walks you through a search using the new PubMed interface.
How to use PubMed
Step-by-step tutorial, with a table of contents and quizzes.
PubMed training handouts, videos, etc at Duke Medical Center Library
searching tips for PubMed
NIH NLM brochure on PubMed Basics
Tips and instructions without videos.