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All available databases and e-collections are listed at\u00a0eResources Portal of Charles University<\/a>\u00a0(PEZ).<\/p>\n

Here you can find\u00a0selection of the most important medical\/scientific databases<\/p>\n

Subject-Specific Databases<\/h2>\n

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Bibliographia Medica \u010cechoslovaca<\/a><\/div>\n
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Access<\/b>: on-site access<\/a><\/p>\n

Description:<\/strong> BMC represents a Czech national bibliography excerpting Czech medical publications. The database covers also papers by Czech authors published abroad.<\/p>\n

Producer:<\/strong>\u00a0National Medical Library (Prague)<\/p>\n

Type of database:<\/strong>\u00a0bibliographic and factual<\/p>\n

Data updating:<\/strong> monthly<\/p>\n

Access from:<\/strong>\u00a0free<\/p>\n

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Evidence-Based Medicine Reviews<\/a><\/div>\n
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Access:<\/strong> on-site access<\/a> \/ remote access<\/a><\/p>\n

Description:\u00a0<\/strong>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.<\/p>\n

Data Producer:<\/strong> American College of Physicians in conjunction with OVID Technologies<\/p>\n

Type of database:<\/strong> bibliographic, full-text<\/p>\n

Access from:<\/strong>\u00a01st Faculty of Medicine network<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Medline (OVID)<\/a><\/div>\n
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Access:<\/strong> on-site access<\/a> \/ remote access<\/a><\/p>\n

Description:<\/strong>\u00a0MEDLINE 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.<\/p>\n

Producer:<\/strong> National Library of Medicine in cooperation with OVID Technologies Ltd.<\/p>\n

Type of database:<\/strong> bibliographic<\/p>\n

Retrospective:<\/strong> since 1946<\/p>\n

Data updating:<\/strong> weekly<\/p>\n

Access from:<\/strong>\u00a01st Faculty of Medicine network<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Micromedex<\/a><\/div>\n
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Access:<\/strong> on-site access<\/a><\/p>\n

Description<\/strong>: A factual and bibliographic database for pharmacology and related disciplines, complementary medicine, toxicology, information on drugs.<\/p>\n

Producer:<\/strong> Thomson Healthcare<\/p>\n

Type of database:<\/strong> bibliographic and factual<\/p>\n

Data updating:<\/strong> daily<\/p>\n

Access from:<\/strong> General University Hospital in Prague networks<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Neurosurgical Atlas<\/a><\/div>\n
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Access:<\/strong> on-site access<\/a> \/ remote access<\/a><\/p>\n

Description:<\/strong> The\u00a0Neurosurgical\u00a0Atlas is an invaluable daily resource for medical students, residents, and faculty across\u00a0neurosurgical\u00a0and neuroscience disciplines, offering interactive anatomical images, narrated case videos from master surgeons, exclusive chapters, and links to contextual journal articles.<\/p>\n

Producer:<\/strong> Accucoms<\/p>\n

Type of database:<\/strong> factual<\/p>\n

Access from:<\/strong> 1st Faculty of Medicine and General University Hospital in Prague networks<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Northern Light Life Sciences Conference Abstracts (OVID)<\/a><\/div>\n
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Access:<\/strong> on-site access<\/a> \/ remote access<\/a><\/p>\n

Description:<\/strong>\u00a0Northern Light’s\u00a0Life Sciences Conference Abstracts\u00a0is 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<\/strong> HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Producer:<\/strong>\u00a0Wolters Kluwer<\/p>\n

Type of database:<\/strong> bibliographic<\/p>\n

Retrospective:<\/strong> since 2010<\/p>\n

Data updating:<\/strong>\u00a0continuously<\/p>\n

Access from:<\/strong> 1st Faculty of Medicine and General University Hospital in Prague networks<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

PubMed<\/a><\/div>\n
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Access: <\/strong>on-site access<\/a>\u00a0\/remote access<\/a><\/p>\n

Description:<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n

Producer:<\/strong> National Library of Medicine<\/p>\n

Type of database:<\/strong>\u00a0bibliographic<\/p>\n

Access from:<\/strong>\u00a0free<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

TOXNET<\/a><\/div>\n
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Access: <\/strong>on-site access<\/a><\/p>\n

Description:<\/strong> 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.
\nTOXNET database has been integrated into other NLM products and services.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Producer:<\/strong> National Library of Medicine<\/p>\n

Access from:<\/strong>\u00a0free<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

UpToDate Anywhere<\/a><\/div>\n
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Access:<\/strong> on-site access<\/a> \/ remote access<\/a><\/p>\n

Description<\/strong>:\u00a0UpToDate is one of the world\u00b4s most trusted clinical information resources that helps clinicians find answers to their clinical questions.\u00a0It 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.<\/p>\n

Producer:<\/strong> UpToDate Inc.<\/p>\n

Type of database:<\/strong>\u00a0factual<\/p>\n

Access from:<\/strong>\u00a01st Faculty of Medicine and General University Hospital in Prague networks<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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General Interest Databases<\/h2>\n
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EBSCOhost<\/a><\/div>\n
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Access:<\/strong> on-site access<\/a> \/ remote access<\/a><\/p>\n

Description<\/strong>: Ebsco provides online access to bibliographic databases and thousands of e-journals.<\/p>\n

Producer: <\/strong>Ebsco Publishing<\/p>\n

Type of database:<\/strong>\u00a0bibliographic and full-text database, an aggregate of databases<\/p>\n

Retrospective:<\/strong> different at each database<\/p>\n

Data updating:<\/strong> different at each database<\/p>\n

Access from:<\/strong>\u00a01st Faculty of Medicine network<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Google Scholar<\/a><\/div>\n
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Access:<\/strong> on-site access<\/a><\/p>\n

Description<\/strong>: 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.<\/p>\n

Type of database:<\/strong>\u00a0bibliographic<\/p>\n

Access from:<\/strong>\u00a0free<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

ScienceDirect<\/a><\/div>\n
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Access: <\/strong>on-site access<\/a>\u00a0\/ remote access<\/a><\/p>\n

Description:<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n

Producer:<\/strong> Elsevier<\/p>\n

Type of database:<\/strong>\u00a0full-text<\/p>\n

Access from:<\/strong>\u00a01st Faculty of Medicine network<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Scopus<\/a><\/div>\n
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Access:<\/strong> on-site access<\/a> \/ remote access<\/a><\/p>\n

Description<\/strong>: Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources.<\/p>\n

Producer:<\/strong> Elsevier<\/p>\n

Type of database:<\/strong>\u00a0bibliographic<\/p>\n

Data updating:<\/strong> continualy<\/p>\n

Access from:<\/strong>\u00a01st Faculty of Medicine network<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Web of Science<\/a><\/div>\n
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Access:<\/strong> on-site access<\/a> \/ remote access<\/a><\/p>\n

During remote access, you may be asked to fill out the CzechEDU Federation \u2013 Charles University affiliation form<\/strong>. The instructions are HERE<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Description<\/strong>: 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.<\/p>\n

Available series:<\/p>\n