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CINAHL Ultimate (EBSCOhost) (1937+) This link opens in a new window
CINAHL Ultimate provides 1,815 active full-text journals and covers over 50 nursing specialties. Additionally, it features full-text quick lessons, evidence-based care sheets, continuing education modules, nursing instructional videos, and more. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index, with no embargo. Additionally, it features full-text quick lessons, evidence-based care sheets, continuing education modules, nursing instructional videos, and more.
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MEDLINE (EBSCOhost) (1946+) This link opens in a new windowMEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 5,400 current biomedical journals.
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PubMed (MEDLINE) (1948+) This link opens in a new window
PubMed® comprises more than 30 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.
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Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics) This link opens in a new window
Provides citation indexing of top high-impact journals with powerful tools such as cited reference searching and Author Finder, 254 categories thoroughly cover the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.
General/Medical
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Access Medicine This link opens in a new windowFull text medical text books and clinical library. Includes photographs and audio/video presentations related to the various texts in the collections.
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All EBSCOhost Databases - New Interface This link opens in a new window
Try out the new, cleaner search interface for all the familiar EBSCO databases, including Academic Search Premier, Business Source Complete, CINAHL, ERIC, PsycINFO, and many more. The new interface will replace the existing one in late 2025.
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APA PsycInfo (EBSCOhost) (1887+) This link opens in a new window
The APA PsycInfo® database, American Psychological Association’s (APA) renowned resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. It contains records and summaries dating as far back as the 1600s with one of the highest DOI matching rates in the publishing industry. Journal coverage, which spans from the 1800s to the present, includes international material selected from periodicals in dozens of languages.
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Bates Visual Guide to Physical Examination This link opens in a new windowHead-to-toe and systems-based physical examination techniques for the (Advanced) Assessment or Introduction to Clinical Medicine course for Students and faculty in medical, nursing, and related programs.
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CINAHL Ultimate (EBSCOhost) (1937+) This link opens in a new window
CINAHL Ultimate provides 1,815 active full-text journals and covers over 50 nursing specialties. Additionally, it features full-text quick lessons, evidence-based care sheets, continuing education modules, nursing instructional videos, and more. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index, with no embargo. Additionally, it features full-text quick lessons, evidence-based care sheets, continuing education modules, nursing instructional videos, and more.
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Clinical Key (Elsevier) This link opens in a new windowAn online search tool that provides physicians with fast clinical answers.
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Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (Wiley) This link opens in a new window"a bibliography of controlled trials...as part of an international effort to hand search the world's journals and create an unbiased source of data for systematic reviews"
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Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (Wiley) This link opens in a new window"contains full text articles, as well as protocols focusing on the effects of healthcare"
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DynaMedex (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowcombines the clinical expertise and extensive, curated disease content of DynaMed with the comprehensive view into treatment options, depth, and breadth of drug information, and advanced search capabilities of Micromedex. DynaMedex includes mobile and app access: sign up for a free account on the DynaMedex page.
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EndNoteEndNote is a valuable resource that propels UCF to reach its goal as a top research institution. If you previously had EndNote installed and activated on your computer, you may access it as before. If you have not yet installed EndNote, submit this Service Now form for assistance with downloading the most current version. If you need help with a previously downloaded version or need an administrator to help with a UCF-managed device, submit this request form
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Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) (1985+) This link opens in a new windowHealth & Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI), produced by Behavioral Measurement Database Services, is a comprehensive bibliographic database providing information about behavioral measurement instruments. Information in the database is abstracted from hundreds of leading journals covering health sciences and psychosocial sciences.
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JBI Sumari (Ovid) This link opens in a new windowInstructions for use
Develop, conduct, and report on systematic reviews of multiple research papers. **You must create a FREE personal Ovid account to access this product.**
UCF has an organizational subscription which covers faculty, staff and students. If collaborating with members from other institutions, each collaborator must also have access to JBI Sumari through their own organization's subscription or an individual subscription. -
Medical Letter (The Medical Letter) (1988+) This link opens in a new windowCritical appraisals of new drugs and comparative reviews of older drugs.
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MEDLINE (EBSCOhost) (1946+) This link opens in a new windowMEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 5,400 current biomedical journals.
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NatMed This link opens in a new windowInformation about herbs, supplements and other "natural" medicines.
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New England Journal of Medicine: Videos This link opens in a new windowa searchable archive of videos on various topics from The New England Journal of Medicine
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Nursing Education in Video (Alexander Street) This link opens in a new window"Nursing Education in Video is an up-to-date collection of demonstration and training videos designed to help students improve their clinical skills. This resource provides access to Medcom's complete collection of 300+ full-length training videos..."
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Pediatric Care Online (from AAP, American Academy of Pediatrics) This link opens in a new windowA premier pediatric point-of-care resource which integrates many different pediatric resources for quick access. Includes a visual library, videos, eBooks, drug look-up, and point-of-care resources.
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PubMed (MEDLINE) (1948+) This link opens in a new window
PubMed® comprises more than 30 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.
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ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global (1637+) This link opens in a new window"Each dissertation published since July, 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Simple bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637. Where available, PQDTGlobal provides 24-page previews of dissertations and theses."
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Sage Research Methods This link opens in a new window
Sage Research Methods is the ultimate methods library with more than 1000 books, reference works, journal articles, and instructional videos by world-leading academics from across the social sciences, including the largest collection of qualitative methods books available online from any scholarly publisher. The site is designed to guide users to the content they need to learn a little or a lot about their method. The Methods Map can help those less familiar with research methods to find the best technique to use in their research. Built upon Sage’s legacy of methods publishing, Sage Research Methods is the essential online tool for researchers.Full text of book, journal, and reference content to aid as students research design methodologies, understand and select methods, conduct research, and write findings.
Includes tools such as:
- Project Planner: find step-by-step guidance to complete your research project
- Which Stats Test: answer questions to see which statistical method is best for your data
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- Little Green Books -- Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences
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PubMed (MEDLINE) (1948+) This link opens in a new window
PubMed® comprises more than 30 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.
To authenticate for full-text off-campus, log in -
SPORTDiscus (EBSCOhost) (1975+) This link opens in a new windowProvided by the Sport Information Resource Centre, SPORTDiscus offers comprehensive, bibliographic coverage of sport, fitness and related disciplines. This database contains well over 1.7 million records with journal and monograph coverage going back to 1800; over 22,000 dissertations and theses and reference to articles in 60 different languages.
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Thieme MedOne Education This link opens in a new windowOnline access to the Flexibook Atlases and Textbooks, the popular series of color atlases and pocket textbooks in anatomy, basic science, clinical science, and radiology.
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Ulrichsweb Global Serials Directory This link opens in a new windowdirectory of journals, magazines, newspapers, & other periodicals worldwide. Indicates available formats, intended audience, special features (e.g. reviews, whether a journal is refereed) & indexing/abstracting services coverage.
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Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics) This link opens in a new window
Provides citation indexing of top high-impact journals with powerful tools such as cited reference searching and Author Finder, 254 categories thoroughly cover the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.
Nursing Education
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CINAHL Ultimate (EBSCOhost) (1937+) This link opens in a new window
CINAHL Ultimate provides 1,815 active full-text journals and covers over 50 nursing specialties. Additionally, it features full-text quick lessons, evidence-based care sheets, continuing education modules, nursing instructional videos, and more. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index, with no embargo. Additionally, it features full-text quick lessons, evidence-based care sheets, continuing education modules, nursing instructional videos, and more.
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Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (Wiley) This link opens in a new window"a bibliography of controlled trials...as part of an international effort to hand search the world's journals and create an unbiased source of data for systematic reviews"
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Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (Wiley) This link opens in a new window"contains full text articles, as well as protocols focusing on the effects of healthcare"
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Education Source (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window“This database provides scholarly research and information to meet the needs of education students, professionals, and policy makers. It covers all levels of education — from early childhood to higher education — as well as all educational specialties such as multilingual education, health education, and testing.”
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ERIC (EBSCOhost) (1966+) This link opens in a new window
ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and research. The database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. Content includes journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, dissertations and theses, and books dating back to 1966.
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ERIC + Education Research Index (1966+) This link opens in a new window
Education Research Index combines ERIC, the leading education research database produced by the U.S. Department of Education, with the new Supplemental Education Index, which was created to expand upon the current scope of ERIC. Together, they offer journal articles, reports, documents, books, all indexed with the ERIC vocabulary for a unified search experience.
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Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) (1985+) This link opens in a new windowHealth & Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI), produced by Behavioral Measurement Database Services, is a comprehensive bibliographic database providing information about behavioral measurement instruments. Information in the database is abstracted from hundreds of leading journals covering health sciences and psychosocial sciences.
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MEDLINE (EBSCOhost) (1946+) This link opens in a new windowMEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 5,400 current biomedical journals.
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Nursing and Allied Health (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window"provides access to academic journals and other reference content covering all aspects of the nursing profession, from direct patient care to health care administration. The database offers current and authoritative content for professionals already working in the field as well as students pursuing a nursing-focused curriculum."
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APA PsycInfo (EBSCOhost) (1887+) This link opens in a new window
The APA PsycInfo® database, American Psychological Association’s (APA) renowned resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. It contains records and summaries dating as far back as the 1600s with one of the highest DOI matching rates in the publishing industry. Journal coverage, which spans from the 1800s to the present, includes international material selected from periodicals in dozens of languages.
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Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics) This link opens in a new window
Provides citation indexing of top high-impact journals with powerful tools such as cited reference searching and Author Finder, 254 categories thoroughly cover the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.
Nursing Leadership & Management
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ABI/INFORM Collection (ProQuest) (1971+) This link opens in a new window
The most comprehensive ABI/INFORM™ database, this comprises ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry, and ABI/INFORM Dateline. The database features thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economics periodicals such as the Economist, country-and industry-focused reports, and downloadable data. Its international coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world
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APA PsycInfo (EBSCOhost) (1887+) This link opens in a new window
The APA PsycInfo® database, American Psychological Association’s (APA) renowned resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. It contains records and summaries dating as far back as the 1600s with one of the highest DOI matching rates in the publishing industry. Journal coverage, which spans from the 1800s to the present, includes international material selected from periodicals in dozens of languages.
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Business Source Premier (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Business Source Premier is the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. This database provides full text back to 1886, and searchable cited references back to 1998. Business Source Premier is superior to the competition in full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.
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CINAHL Ultimate (EBSCOhost) (1937+) This link opens in a new window
CINAHL Ultimate provides 1,815 active full-text journals and covers over 50 nursing specialties. Additionally, it features full-text quick lessons, evidence-based care sheets, continuing education modules, nursing instructional videos, and more. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index, with no embargo. Additionally, it features full-text quick lessons, evidence-based care sheets, continuing education modules, nursing instructional videos, and more.
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Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (Wiley) This link opens in a new window"a bibliography of controlled trials...as part of an international effort to hand search the world's journals and create an unbiased source of data for systematic reviews"
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Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (Wiley) This link opens in a new window"contains full text articles, as well as protocols focusing on the effects of healthcare"
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Emerald Insight Journals and eBooks This link opens in a new window
Online journals and eBooks from Emerald which publishes in a broad range of disciplines.
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Human Resources Abstracts (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowHuman Resources Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to human resources, including human resource management, employee assistance, organizational behavior, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. The index contains more than 112,000 records, which are carefully selected from the most important sources within the discipline.
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IGI Global eBooks, eJournals, and Video Lectures This link opens in a new windoweJournals, eBooks, and video lectures primarily in business & management; computer science and information technology; and education.
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MEDLINE (EBSCOhost) (1946+) This link opens in a new windowMEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 5,400 current biomedical journals.
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Nexis Uni - All Content This link opens in a new window
See UCF User Help Guide
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Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics) This link opens in a new window
Provides citation indexing of top high-impact journals with powerful tools such as cited reference searching and Author Finder, 254 categories thoroughly cover the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.
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EconLit (EBSCOhost) (1969+) This link opens in a new windowEconLit, the American Economic Association's electronic database, is the world's foremost source of references to economic literature. The database contains more than 1.1 million records from 1886-present. EconLit covers virtually every area related to economics.
Nursing - Simulation & Technology
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Applied Science & Technology Source Ultimate (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Applied Science & Technology Source Ultimate provides STEM students and researchers with the resources they need to succeed. Providing coverage of a wide range of topics including artificial intelligence, applied mathematics, plastics, hydroponics, computer science, chemical engineering, energy resources and robotics, as well as the business and social implications of new technologies, this comprehensive database is essential for STEM programs.
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Biotechnology Research Abstracts (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowProvides bibliographic coverage of ground-breaking research, applications, regulatory developments and new patents across all areas of biotechnology and bioengineering, including medical, pharmaceutical, agricultural, environmental and marine biology.
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CINAHL Ultimate (EBSCOhost) (1937+) This link opens in a new window
CINAHL Ultimate provides 1,815 active full-text journals and covers over 50 nursing specialties. Additionally, it features full-text quick lessons, evidence-based care sheets, continuing education modules, nursing instructional videos, and more. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index, with no embargo. Additionally, it features full-text quick lessons, evidence-based care sheets, continuing education modules, nursing instructional videos, and more.
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Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (Wiley) This link opens in a new window"a bibliography of controlled trials...as part of an international effort to hand search the world's journals and create an unbiased source of data for systematic reviews"
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Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (Wiley) This link opens in a new window"contains full text articles, as well as protocols focusing on the effects of healthcare"
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Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) (1985+) This link opens in a new windowHealth & Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI), produced by Behavioral Measurement Database Services, is a comprehensive bibliographic database providing information about behavioral measurement instruments. Information in the database is abstracted from hundreds of leading journals covering health sciences and psychosocial sciences.
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Health Technology Assessments (HTA)This database is available from the CRD database website."
Provides details of completed and ongoing health technology assessments (studies of the medical, social, ethical and economic implications of healthcare interventions) from around the world. "The HTA database is produced by the NIHR Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) at the University of York, UK. -
IEEE Xplore This link opens in a new window
Full text access to quality technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics. Includes most IEEE journals, conference proceedings, and standards.
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IGI Global eBooks, eJournals, and Video Lectures This link opens in a new windoweJournals, eBooks, and video lectures primarily in business & management; computer science and information technology; and education.
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MEDLINE (EBSCOhost) (1946+) This link opens in a new windowMEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 5,400 current biomedical journals.
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Science Direct (1997+) This link opens in a new window
Full text scientific, technical and medical research journals, eBooks, Reference works, handbooks and book series published by Elsevier.
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SciTech Premium Collection (ProQuest )(1946+) This link opens in a new window"The SciTech Premium Collection includes the Natural Science Collection and Technology Collection databases and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications and more. For researchers who need to conduct comprehensive literature reviews, this database includes specialized, editorial-controlled A&I resources for discovery of relevant scholarly research and technical literature critical to the discipline."
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Springer Nature Link This link opens in a new window
Providing researchers with access to millions of scientific documents from journals, books, series, protocols and reference works.
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Springer Protocols This link opens in a new windowReproducible laboratory protocols in the Life and Biomedical Sciences.
On July 25, 2018, the Springer Protocols platform was deactivated. Springer Protocols are searchable on the new Springer Nature Experiments site. Click the title to be authenticated for access to full text of the protocols. SpringerProtocols can also be found on the Springer Nature Link site. -
Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics) This link opens in a new window
Provides citation indexing of top high-impact journals with powerful tools such as cited reference searching and Author Finder, 254 categories thoroughly cover the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.
Clinical Tools
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Access Medicine This link opens in a new windowFull text medical text books and clinical library. Includes photographs and audio/video presentations related to the various texts in the collections.
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Bates Visual Guide to Physical Examination This link opens in a new windowHead-to-toe and systems-based physical examination techniques for the (Advanced) Assessment or Introduction to Clinical Medicine course for Students and faculty in medical, nursing, and related programs.
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Clinical Key (Elsevier) This link opens in a new windowAn online search tool that provides physicians with fast clinical answers.
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DynaMedex (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowcombines the clinical expertise and extensive, curated disease content of DynaMed with the comprehensive view into treatment options, depth, and breadth of drug information, and advanced search capabilities of Micromedex. Provide users with evidence-based insights for optimal clinical decision-making and improved patient outcomes.
DynaMedex includes mobile and app access: sign up for a free account on the DynaMedex page. You must be on campus or signed in with your NID to create an account.
Mobile App Access: In late November 2025, the Institutional Network tab—which previously allowed access via IP address authentication—will be removed from the mobile app. Users will need to create a personal account affiliated with the institution. -
Merck Manual This link opens in a new window"Find information on medical topics, symptoms, drugs, procedures, news and more, written for the health care professional."
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Micromedex This link opens in a new windowProvides drug, disease, and toxicology information, as well as patient education documents and pediatric and neonatal evidence for patient safety.
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NatMed This link opens in a new windowInformation about herbs, supplements and other "natural" medicines.
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New England Journal of Medicine: Videos This link opens in a new windowa searchable archive of videos on various topics from The New England Journal of Medicine
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Pediatric Care Online (from AAP, American Academy of Pediatrics) This link opens in a new windowA premier pediatric point-of-care resource which integrates many different pediatric resources for quick access. Includes a visual library, videos, eBooks, drug look-up, and point-of-care resources.
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PEPID Clinical Rotation Companion Online This link opens in a new windowPEPID is a medical reference for your mobile device, PDA or online.
- Clinical Rotation Companion
- Medical Dictionary
- Lab Manuals
- Peds Module
- DDX Module
- Patient Education Mode
eBooks
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Access Medicine This link opens in a new windowFull text medical text books and clinical library. Includes photographs and audio/video presentations related to the various texts in the collections.
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Clinical Key (Elsevier) This link opens in a new windowAn online search tool that provides physicians with fast clinical answers.
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ProQuest Ebook Central This link opens in a new windowFull text eBooks, including selections by UCF faculty, students, and staff.
CAUTION: Although some books provide for unlimited simultaneous users, some have restrictions which make them unsuitable for assigning as course readings
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ProQuest Ebook Central -- College of Medicine This link opens in a new windowFull text of eBooks selected by the UCF College of Medicine.
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EBSCO eBooks This link opens in a new windowA collection of ebooks in full text, including both current and classic works.
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Gale eBooks This link opens in a new windowa database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
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IGI Global eBooks, eJournals, and Video Lectures This link opens in a new windoweJournals, eBooks, and video lectures primarily in business & management; computer science and information technology; and education.
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Merck Manual This link opens in a new window"Find information on medical topics, symptoms, drugs, procedures, news and more, written for the health care professional."
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LWW Health Library: Medical Education (Wolters Kluwer) This link opens in a new windowLWW Health Library: Medical Education provides texts, video & audio, self assessment, cases, and clinical skills resources.
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ProQuest Ebook Central -- College of Medicine This link opens in a new windowFull text of eBooks selected by the UCF College of Medicine.
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Thieme MedOne Education This link opens in a new windowOnline access to the Flexibook Atlases and Textbooks, the popular series of color atlases and pocket textbooks in anatomy, basic science, clinical science, and radiology.
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Springer eBooks (2005+) This link opens in a new windowover 20,000 ebooks from science, technology, and medicine
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Science Direct (1997+) This link opens in a new window
Full text scientific, technical and medical research journals, eBooks, Reference works, handbooks and book series published by Elsevier.
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Discover - UCF's Catalog and More This link opens in a new window
Discover (formerly called Primo Search) searches the UCF's library collection, including our physical collection of books, documents, and journals, and most of our online collection, such as online journals, ebooks, streaming videos, and more.
Discover replaces Primo Search as of July 13 2026. If you have links to Primo Search, please consider updating them!
Evidence-Based Practice
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Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (Wiley) This link opens in a new window"a bibliography of controlled trials...as part of an international effort to hand search the world's journals and create an unbiased source of data for systematic reviews"
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Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (Wiley) This link opens in a new window"contains full text articles, as well as protocols focusing on the effects of healthcare"
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Cochrane Methodology Register (Wiley) This link opens in a new windowSearch Cochrane Reviews and limit by Type = methodology
The Cochrane Methodology Register (1904-2011) was last updated in 2012.
"The Cochrane Methodology Register (CMR) is a bibliography of publications that report on methods used in the conduct of controlled trials. It includes journal articles, books, and conference proceedings, and the content is sourced from MEDLINE and hand searches. CMR contains studies of methods used in reviews and more general methodological studies that could be relevant to anyone preparing systematic reviews. CMR records contain the title of the article, information on where it was published (bibliographic details), and, in some cases, a summary of the article. They do not contain the full text of the article." -
JBI Sumari (Ovid) This link opens in a new windowInstructions for use
Develop, conduct, and report on systematic reviews of multiple research papers. **You must create a FREE personal Ovid account to access this product.**
UCF has an organizational subscription which covers faculty, staff and students. If collaborating with members from other institutions, each collaborator must also have access to JBI Sumari through their own organization's subscription or an individual subscription. -
Medical Letter (The Medical Letter) (1988+) This link opens in a new windowCritical appraisals of new drugs and comparative reviews of older drugs.
Videos
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Access Medicine This link opens in a new windowFull text medical text books and clinical library. Includes photographs and audio/video presentations related to the various texts in the collections.
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Bates Visual Guide to Physical Examination This link opens in a new windowHead-to-toe and systems-based physical examination techniques for the (Advanced) Assessment or Introduction to Clinical Medicine course for Students and faculty in medical, nursing, and related programs.
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Clinical Key (Elsevier) This link opens in a new windowAn online search tool that provides physicians with fast clinical answers.
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FMG - Films on Demand This link opens in a new windowEducational films viewable online.
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Kanopy Streaming Videos This link opens in a new window
Streaming educational videos and documentaries.
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LWW Health Library: Medical Education (Wolters Kluwer) This link opens in a new windowLWW Health Library: Medical Education provides texts, video & audio, self assessment, cases, and clinical skills resources.
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New England Journal of Medicine: Videos This link opens in a new windowa searchable archive of videos on various topics from The New England Journal of Medicine
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Nursing Education in Video (Alexander Street) This link opens in a new window"Nursing Education in Video is an up-to-date collection of demonstration and training videos designed to help students improve their clinical skills. This resource provides access to Medcom's complete collection of 300+ full-length training videos..."
This collection has been upgraded to the 3rd edition and now has over 400 videos.
Free on the Web
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Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) This link opens in a new windowidentifies "free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals"
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Florida Electronic Library (FEL) - Licensed Resources This link opens in a new windowDatabases purchased by the State of Florida for public libraries. *Public library ID to access the databases from this link.* Most of the databases are available to the UCF community on the UCF Libraries database pages.
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LearnDerm This link opens in a new window"This self-study dermatology education resource consists of 5 interactive lessons to help build a solid foundation in essential terminology and improve your pattern recognition skills."
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Mendeley This link opens in a new windowMendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network. Create a free account.
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Merck Manual This link opens in a new window"Find information on medical topics, symptoms, drugs, procedures, news and more, written for the health care professional."
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National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) This link opens in a new window
the U.S. Federal Government's principal vital and health statistics agency
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OncoLink (University of Pennsylvania) This link opens in a new windowComprehensive information about specific types of cancer, updates on cancer treatments and news about research advances.
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PubMed (MEDLINE) (1948+) This link opens in a new window
PubMed® comprises more than 30 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.
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TOXNET (NIH) This link opens in a new windowA cluster of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals and related areas.
