VETS5016 - Evidence-based veterinary medicine and systematic review: Step 3b. Searching databases

Tips and support for completing the VETS5016 assignment - EBVM: systematic review of an intervention

Databases for searching

Journals are the best source for current information. Use the library databases to find journal articles on your topic. (Databases index journal articles from multiple journal titles.)

The links below go directly to subscribed-access databases.

For the purposes of this assignment, select a minimum of two databases.

These are the preferred databases:

If the intervention you're studying is a drug or medication, you may want to try:

You could also try:

If you have an obscure topic and you're not getting many hits, there are some databases that can search the full text of the articles. These may get results:

Tips for PubMed

PubMed is the most common platform for accessing the MEDLINE database.  PubMed contains MEDLINE, plus recent material not yet indexed in MEDLINE and open access journal articles not covered by MEDLINE.