{"id":4414,"date":"2023-02-20T13:09:24","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T19:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/?p=4414"},"modified":"2023-02-20T13:09:27","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T19:09:27","slug":"which-literature-database-should-you-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/2023\/02\/20\/which-literature-database-should-you-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Which literature database should you search?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><em>By Cindy Schmidt<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you need to identify a journal article on a specific topic?&nbsp; Perhaps you need to find all the journal literature on that topic?&nbsp; The library licenses a variety of databases that index journal literature.&nbsp; These are accessible through the \u201cResources\u201d menu on the library\u2019s homepage (click on the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/library\/resources\/databases.html\">Literature Databases<\/a>\u201d option).&nbsp; You can search these databases yourself or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/library\/services\/search-request.html\">ask a librarian to complete a search for you<\/a>. If you want to search the literature yourself but are having trouble finding what your need or want some search training, click here to use our <a href=\"https:\/\/outlook.office365.com\/owa\/calendar\/DanielleWestmark@univnebrmedcntr.onmicrosoft.com\/bookings\/\">online scheduling system to book a Zoom session<\/a> with one of our Education &amp; Research Services librarians. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps you don\u2019t need a meeting but just need to know which database would be most useful?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three databases, <strong>MEDLINE<\/strong> (versions include PubMed, EBSCOhost MEDLINE, and OVID MEDLINE), <strong>EMBASE<\/strong>, and <strong>Scopus<\/strong> provide <strong>wide coverage of the biomedical journal literature<\/strong>.&nbsp; Most UNMC affiliates are familiar with MEDLINE\/PubMed, but EMBASE and Scopus may be less familiar. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>EMBASE<\/strong> includes records for all the journal articles indexed by MEDLINE as well as records for articles in some journals that are not indexed by MEDLINE.&nbsp; In addition, EMBASE contains records for posters and papers presented at many of the more important conferences and records for articles deposited in several pre-print repositories.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another database, <strong>Scopus<\/strong>, provides <strong>wide coverage of the biomedical literature<\/strong> but <strong>also includes a lot of non-biomedical journals as well<\/strong>.&nbsp; If you have a topic that might be covered by a criminal justice journal, a math journal, an engineering journal, etc.&nbsp; try this resource.&nbsp; Scopus also tracks the references cited by the articles it indexes.&nbsp; If you need to know which articles have cited an article you or someone else has published, give Scopus a try.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other databases focus on specific topics or types of literature:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>APA PsycINFO<\/strong> \u2013 psychology and psychiatry literature&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>CAS SciFinder<\/strong> \u2013 chemistry, biochemistry, drugs<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Cochrane Library<\/strong> \u2013 systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and controlled trials<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>CINAHL <\/strong>\u2013 nursing and allied health literature, research instruments used are indexed&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>ERIC <\/strong>\u2013 education literature&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Greenfile <\/strong>\u2013 environmental issues&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>IEEE <\/strong>\u2013 engineering&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Cindy Schmidt Do you need to identify a journal article on a specific topic?&nbsp; Perhaps you need to find all the journal literature on that topic?&nbsp; The library licenses a variety of databases that index journal literature.&nbsp; These are accessible through the \u201cResources\u201d menu on the library\u2019s homepage (click on the \u201cLiterature Databases\u201d option).&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4415,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4414\/revisions\/4415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}