Databases

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Description: BMC represents a Czech national bibliography excerpting Czech medical publications. The database covers also papers by Czech authors published abroad.

Producer: National Medical Library (Prague)

Type of database: bibliographic and factual

Data updating: monthly

Access from: free

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Description: A definitive resource for electronic information in the evidence based medicine (EBM) movement that combines 4 of the most trusted EBM resources into a single, fully-searchable database. EBMR helps clinicians practice EBM through a combination of resources that provide: systematic reviews of topics; article reviews; and access to definitive controlled trials.

Data Producer: American College of Physicians in conjunction with OVID Technologies

Type of database: bibliographic, full-text

Access from: 1st Faculty of Medicine network

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Description: MEDLINE belongs to the most important sources of information in medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system and the preclinical sciences. MEDLINE is the U.S. National Library of Medicine bibliographic database and contains bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 5 600 international biomedical journals. The database contains over 22 million citations dating back to 1946. Coverage is worldwide but most records are from English-language sources or have English abstracts. MEDLINE also contains records of chapters and articles from selected monographies. Records are classified by the thesaurus MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Annual increase is about 700 000 records. Since 2001 MEDLINE newly contains also records from formerly single databases AIDSLine, BioEthicsLine, ToxLine, PopLine a HealthStar.

Producer: National Library of Medicine in cooperation with OVID Technologies Ltd.

Type of database: bibliographic

Retrospective: since 1946

Data updating: weekly

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Description: A factual and bibliographic database for pharmacology and related disciplines, complementary medicine, toxicology, information on drugs.

Producer: Thomson Healthcare

Type of database: biblographic and factual

Data updating: daily

Access from: General University Hospital in Prague networks

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Description: Northern Light’s Life Sciences Conference Abstracts is a bibliographic database that contains conference abstracts and posters from scholarly conferences from the fields of life sciences and pharmaceutical research. The retrospective reaches to 2010. You can search the database by conference title, date or sponsor, and by other search criteria as Author, Brand Name Drugs, Medical Device, Disease, Gene, Cell, Enzyme, Type of the publication, etc. It’s possible to set up alerts or RSS feed. Instructional video HERE.

Producer: Wolters Kluwer

Type of database: bibliographic

Retrospective: since 2010

Data updating: continuously

Access from: 1st Faculty of Medicine and General University Hospital in Prague networks

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Description: PubMed comprises more than 24 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

Producer: National Library of Medicine

Type of database: bibliographic

Access from: free

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Description: free guide to databases offering information and literature on chemical substances, drugs, diseases and the environment, poisoning, etc. It covers topics from occupational medicine, public health protection and toxicology. It serves, among other things, as a resource for risk assessment and regulations.
 TOXNET database has been integrated into other NLM products and services.

Producer: National Library of Medicine

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Description: UpToDate is one of the world´s most trusted clinical information resources that helps clinicians find answers to their clinical questions. It offers optimized search capabilities, around 7,000 graded treatment recommendations, Medline abstracts, text, graphics, drug database and drug interactions database, calculators, patient information, practice changing updates, feedback button to editors, links to full texts, etc.

Producer: UpToDate Inc.

Type of database: factual

Access from: 1st Faculty of Medicine and General University Hospital in Prague networks

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Description: Ebsco provides online access to bibliographic databases and thousands of e-journals.

Producer: Ebsco Publishing

Type of database: bibliographic and full-text database, an aggregate of databases

Retrospective: different at each database

Data updating: different at each database

Access from: 1st Faculty of Medicine network

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Description: Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.

Type of database: bibliographic

Access from: free

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Description: Science Direct offers the full-text articles published by Elsevier Publishing from the engineering, natural and social sciences and medicine with retrospection about since 1997.

Producer: Elsevier

Type of database: full-text

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Description: Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources.

Producer: Elsevier

Type of database: bibliographic

Data updating: continualy

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Description: A bibliographic database produced by Institute for Scientific Information and available from its gateway Web of Knowledge. This multispecialty database targets science and technology. ISI Conference Proceedings are included.

Available series:

• Science Citation Index Expanded
• Social Sciences Citation Index
• Arts & Humanities Citation Index

Producer: Institute for Scientific Information

Type of database: bibliographic

Retrospective: since 1945

Data updating: daily

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Description: Amboss is a factual portal providing an interactive library and tests to prepare for medical studies. Amboss is an educational portal for medical students and doctors. (more information)

Publisher: Amboss

Type of database: Factual source

Access from: individual licences, codes are assigned by the study department of the faculty

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Description: The educational platform Coursera provides access to selected online courses from universities around the world from a wide range of disciplines from natural science through humanities and health to nutrition. (more information)

Publisher: Coursera

Type of database: portal of online courses

Access from: individual licences, codes are assigned by Information Technology Department (Dr. Štuka – cestmir.stuka@lf1.cuni.cz)

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Description: Grammarly is a digital writing tool using artificial intelligence and natural language processing. In addition to the basic functions included in the freely available version (critical grammar and spelling checks, conciseness), Premium also offers the following:

• Readability
• Vocabulary enhancement suggestions
• Genre-specific writing style checks
• Plagiarism detector that checks more than 16 billion web pages

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Publisher: Grammarly

Type of database: referential

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Description: Writefull is a tool for academic writing that provides advanced proofreading in English. It is designed for all researchers and students who write and publish scientific texts in English, although they are non-native speakers. (more information)

Publisher: Digital Science

Type of database: Referential

Access from: 1st Faculty of Medicine network