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Electronic Resources

American Grants & Loans Database
Access more than 2800 financial programs, subsidies, scholarships, grants and loans offered by the US federal government and over 2400 programs funded by private corporations and foundations.

Clinical Pharmacology
A comprehensive drug reference resource with current drug information. Includes drug monographs, patient education handouts, and drug identification.

The Cochrane Library:
 The Cochrane Library is a collection of six databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence for medical decision making.

Credo Reference
An online reference library including encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, quotations, bilingual dictionaries, and measurement conversions.

DynaMed
An evidence-based, clinical reference tool for use at the point of care by physicians and other health care professionals.

EbscoHost Research Databases :
includes the following:

  • Academic Search Premier
  • Business Search Elite
  • ERIC
  • Health Source: Consumer Edition
  • Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
  • MEDLINE Complete
  • Newspaper Source

Essential Evidence Plus
Evidence-based medicine, point-of-care resource.

FirstSearch:(user name/password required)
Includes the following databases:

  • ArticleFirst: General, some full text available
  • ClasePeriodica: Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities, some full text
  • ContentsFirst: General
  • EBooks database: OCLC catalog of online electronic books available through libraries worldwide
  • ERIC: Education
  • GPO: Government Publications
  • IllinoisCatalog: OCLC catalog of materials in Illinois libraries
  • MEDLINE: All areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing
  • OAIster: Union catalog of digital resources from open archive collections, including digitized books and articles, born-digital texts, audio files, images, and movies
  • PapersFirst: Papers presented at conferences wordwide
  • Proceedings: Conference proceedings
  • WorldAlmanac: General
  • WorldCat : Books, Serials, Media
  • WorldCat Dissertations: Dissertations and theses available in WorldCat

Integrated Medical Curriculum

MD Consult

PubMed@SIUMED
Search for 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 is a free resource that is developed and maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), located at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

PMC (PubMed Central)
A free archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).

Subject Guides

UpToDate
UpToDate® is an evidence-based, clinical decision support resource which supports point-of-care decisions.

Web of Knowledge:
This index to scholarly articles in the arts, sciences and social sciences includes the list of sources cited in each article. The cited reference search option lets you search for all articles citing a known item.

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