Oxford LibGuides: Pharmacology: Databases

OxLIP+ for Databases

What databases do we subscribe to in medical sciences?

Use OxLIP+ to browse our bibliographic databases and other online resources.

Click on the Subject tab and scroll down the list of categories for Medical Sciences.

View groupings for Bibliographic databases, Reference books, e-book collections, and websites.

Here's the full Guide to OxLIP+.

Medline & the National Library of Medicine

About PubMed
PubMed chapter from the NCBI Handbook.

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PubMed gives free PUBlic access to MEDline.
About Medline
The bibliographic database for medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care and preclinical sciences is produced by the NLM.
National Library of Medicine (NLM)
The NLM site also includes links for biomedical literature, diseases, drugs, clinical trials, history of medicine and more.

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part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH).
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
Hosts PubMed plus numerous biomedical and genomic databases such as BLAST and GenBank.

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a division of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM).
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
The NLM's parent organisation.

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part of the U.S. Department of Health.

Searching the Literature

Research Databases at Oxford

Bibliographic databases can help to locate journal articles, conference proceedings, books and patents on a particular subject or by a particular author. Oxford's subscription databases can be accessed through OxLIP+ or SOLO.

If you're on campus you can access most databases & e-journals directly. For off-campus access start at SOLO and log in with your Oxford Single Sign-On.

PubMed does not cover every scientific journal. To pick up references from other journals it's worth searching other medical sciences databases:

Embase
1980-present. A key medical database, covering 4,000 journals. Some overlap with Medline, but with a European focus. Strong in pharmacology and toxicology.

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This version of Embase is hosted on the Ovid platform.
MEDLINE
On this platform of Web of Science you can search other collections with or without the inclusion of Web of Science Core Collections. You can search:
Biosis Citation Index- for pre-clinical and experimental research, methods and instrumentation in life sciences and biomedical research
Data Citation Index - for data underpinning publications
Dervwent Innovations Index - for patents
Medline

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This version of Medline is accessed through the Web of Knowledge platform.
PsycINFO
Psychology & behavioral sciences - including psychiatry, nursing, business, education, social science, neuroscience, law, medicine, social work. Coverage dates back to 1806.

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On the Ovid platform.
PubMed
PubMed covers 5,000 medical & life sciences journals including MEDLINE. Click here for PubMed With Oxford Links.
SCOPUS
One of Oxford's subscription bibliographic databases. Coverage of journals across the physical, life and medical sciences. Incorporates journal articles, conference proceedings and patent records.

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Also includes material from other databases such as GeoBase and MedLine.
Web of Science CORE COLLECTIONS
Web of Science is another subscription database with wide scientific coverage. It Indexes a wide variety of journal articles and conference proceedings, and includes "times cited" feature linking articles citing the a specific paper.
Web of Science ALL DATABASES
On this platform of Web of Science you can search other collections with or without the inclusion of Web of Science Core Collections. You can search:
Biosis Citation Index- for pre-clinical and experimental research, methods and instrumentation in life sciences and biomedical research
Data Citation Index - for data underpinning publications
Dervwent Innovations Index - for patents
Medline

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Web of Science is accessed through the Web of Knowledge platform.
ScienceDirect
Full text database of 2000 e-journals across science & medicine.
WorldWide Science
A scientific search engine to filter web content; it allows you to carry out simultaneous searchers across a range of international scientific databases. These include literature databases, publication repositories and data archives. The service is maintained by the U.S. Government's Office of Science and Technical Information (OSTI).

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Bioinformatics/Biostatistics Databases

The following databases provide access to data and resources for Bioinformatics. You will find many more Bioinformatics resources under the 'Bioinformatics' tab in this guide.

EMBL/EBI Databases
These databases provide access to all the bioinformatics data held be EMBL/EBI.
Entrez - The Life Sciences Database
This cross-search database engine is provided by NCBI and provides access to all the NCBI databases.