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Free Medical Journals
The Free Medical Journals Site was created to promote the free availability of full text medical journals on the Internet.
Medscape Publishers' Circle®
Medscape Publishers' Circle® is a collection of high-quality healthcare information from prominent medical publishers, available free on Medscape.com to registered Medscape members. It includes a broad range of full-text material from familiar print and electronic publications including clinical journals, clinical reference books, professional periodicals, newsletters, searchable databases, self-tests, and more. Including more than 90 MEDLINE-indexed journals. New material is added as new journal issues are published, updates are added to references, and new partner publications join.
PubMed Central
PubMed Central® (PMC) is 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). In keeping with NLM’s legislative mandate to collect and preserve the biomedical literature, PMC serves as a digital counterpart to NLM’s extensive print journal collection. Launched in February 2000, PMC was developed and is managed by NLM’s National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
California Nursing Update
A free online magazine of interest to nursing professionals in California. The California Nursing Update’s printed journal represents a timely and authoritative source of regulatory bulletins and information relevant to more than 500,000 California nursing professionals. This traditional journal and its interactive digital companion is published quarterly and provides nurses with information essential to their licensure. It is a “must read” for nurses, healthcare facility administrators, nursing school administrators, educators, and students. The California Nursing Update offers a single targeted, high-profile channel to connect with California’s massive nursing community.

Databases

CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window CINAHL indexes journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, with indexing for selected journals back to 1937. Topics covered are related to nursing, physical therapy, health education, social service/healthcare, occupational therapy, and related disciplines. CINAHL also provides access to healthcare books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of professional practice, educational software and audiovisual materials in nursing.
PubMed@UCI This link opens in a new window Provides access to millions of citations from MEDLINE and life science journals. Includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window A collection of evidence-based databases including the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, and Cochrane Clinical Answers. The databases can be searched simultaneously using medical subject headings (MeSH) and text words.
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window A database of psychological and psychiatric literature published by the American Psychological Association. PsycInfo includes citations, abstracts, and some full text of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, social work, and law.
PsycTests This link opens in a new window This database provides summaries plus full text and multimedia of psychological tests and measures from the early 1900s to the present. 75% of the records contain the actual test or test items such as psychological assessments, questionnaires, scales, and surveys.
Scopus This link opens in a new window An abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Content covers research output in the fields of physical science, health science, life science, technology, medicine, and social sciences.
Web of Science (WoS) This link opens in a new window Global citation database provides access to the Science Citation Index expanded from 1900 to the present, Social Sciences Citation Index from 1956 to the present, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index from 1975 to the present.

Both Medline Complete and Ovid MEDLINE® contain the same content as PubMed but offer enhanced interfaces supporting proximity operators, as well as more flexible use of wildcards, truncation, and phrase searching. Both offer some full text articles attached to the search results unlike PubMed.

OVID Medline This link opens in a new window Ovid Medline contains the same content as PubMed but offers enhanced interfaces supporting proximity operators, as well as more flexible use of wildcards, truncation, and phrase searching. It offers some full text articles attached to the search results unlike PubMed.
MEDLINE Complete This link opens in a new window Medline Complete contains the same content as PubMed but offers enhanced interfaces supporting proximity operators, as well as more flexible use of wildcards, truncation, and phrase searching. It offers some full text articles attached to the search results unlike PubMed.

Current Awareness

Setting Up Journal and Search Alerts in CINAHL Complete (2020-09) How to save searches in CINAHL Complete to receive new subject or journal content alerts for current awareness.
Setting Up Journal and Search Updates in PubMed (2020-09) How to save searches in PubMed to receive new subject or journal content updates for current awareness.