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eBooks on EBSCOhost

Offers the full text of scholarly, reference, and professional books. Access is provided by UT Southwestern, the UT System Libraries, and TexShare.
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eBooks on EBSCOhost FAQ

Electronic Journals

Browsable and searchable, Ejournals A to Z alphabetically lists all biomedical, academic, and general interest ejournals licensed by UT Southwestern.
       Help:
Using Ejournals A to Z 
  Tutorial:
Ejournals A to Z FAQ (UT Southwestern) 

EndNote

Downloadable software for bibliography management. Use it to search article databases, add citations to a personal library of references, and create and format bibliographies for papers and publications.
       Help:
EndNote - UT Southwestern Resources

EZProxy

For off-campus access to ejournals via the Ejournals A-Z list. Other electronic resources must be accessed from off-campus via VPN.

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EZProxy

F1000Prime

An online research tool that highlights papers in biology and medicine, based on the recommendations of a large group of leading scientists.
       Help:
F1000Prime FAQ
  Tutorial:
Introduction to F1000Prime (UT Southwestern) 

Find it! UTSW Library

Describes methods the Library uses to link to full-text electronic journals.
       Help:
Find it! UTSW Library - UT Southwestern FAQ

JCR (Impact Factors)

Provides easy access to data that helps evaluate and compare scholarly journals. Contains data from more than 5,900 journals in science and technology (JCR Science Edition) and more than 1,700 journals in the social sciences (JCR Social Sciences Edition). Select a year to begin your search for information published in that year (e.g., selecting "2003" will yield the number of articles published in journals in 2003, the number of citations to journals from articles published in 2003, etc.).
       Help:
JCR (Impact Factors) Help
  Tutorial:
JCR (Impact Factors) Tutorial (ISI)

Library Orientation

These UT Southwestern Medical Library orientation tutorials introduce the Library resources and services.

  Tutorial:
Library Orientation: University Hospitals Edition (UT Southwestern)

MEDLINE (Ovid)

The U.S. National Library of Medicine’s database of peer-reviewed literature that covers research in medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, allied health, and the preclinical sciences. Contains 18 million article citations and abstracts from more than 5,400 peer-reviewed journals dating back to 1948. Off-campus access provides easy access to the Library’s ejournals and is available through two login methods: (1) a personal login, which is available to UT Southwestern affiliates only, or (2) EZProxy login to the generic version.
       Help:
Best Practices in OvidSP's Basic Search
Choosing Between Ovid MEDLINE and PubMed (UT Southwestern) 
Getting Better Results from Ovid MEDLINE (UT Southwestern) 
MEDLINE (Ovid) Field Guide
MEDLINE In-Process & Other Non-Indexed Citation (Ovid) Field Guide
OvidSP Fact Sheet 
OvidSP Quick Reference Card 
OvidSP User Guide 
  Tutorial:
Answering an EBM Diagnosis Question in Ovid (UT Southwestern) 
Answering an EBM Etiology or Harm Question in Ovid (UT Southwestern) 
Answering an EBM Prognosis Question in Ovid (UT Southwestern) 
Answering an EBM Therapy Question in Ovid (UT Southwestern) 
Combining or Limiting OvidSP Searches (Yale University) 
Creating AutoAlerts and RSS Feeds in OvidSP (Yale University) 
Exporting OvidSP Search Results to EndNote (Yale University) 
Medical Subject Headings - Ovid Tutorial (Yale University) 
Saving Searches in OvidSP (Yale University) 
Search Page Overview in OvidSP 

MEDLINE (PubMed)

The U.S. National Library of Medicine’s database of peer-reviewed literature that covers research in medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, allied health, and the preclinical sciences. Contains 18 million article citations and abstracts from more than 5,200 peer-reviewed journals dating back to 1948. Easy access to the Library’s ejournals is available through a customized PubMed version, which may be accessed from the Library Web site. Off-campus access to this customized version is available through EZProxy.
       Help:
Choosing Between Ovid MEDLINE and PubMed (UT Southwestern) 
  Tutorial:
PubMed Tutorial (NLM)
PubMed Online Training Tutorials (NLM) 

MICROMEDEX

Provides a wide range of evidence based information as well as access to English and Spanish patient education handouts. Features comprehensive drug details (DRUGDEX®), drug interactions (DRUG-REAX®), imprint code identification (IDENTIDEX®), toxicology and hazard data (TOMES®), identification and management of drug overdoses and toxicologic exposures (POSINDEX®), evaluation of human reproductive risks of drugs (REPRORISK®), and answers to IV drug compatibility questions (IV INDEX®).
  Tutorial:
MICROMEDEX Training
MICROMEDEX Tutorial

NCBI Databases

Quick links to the National Center for Biotechnology Information's literature, nucleotide, genome, sequence analysis, data mining, population, taxonomy and other databases.
       Help:
BLAST Program Selection Guide
Entrez Gene FAQ
  Tutorial:
NCBI Blast Tutorial
NCBI PSI-Blast Tutorial
NCBI Structure Cn3D Tutorial
Database:
NCBI Blast
NCBI Entrez Gene
NCBI Structure Cn3D

PsycINFO

Covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines, including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas. Includes references and abstracts to more than 2,000 journals, as well as selected dissertations, book chapters, and books in the English language. Covers 1806 to the present. Provided by UT Southwestern and the UT System Libraries.
       Help:
PsycINFO Database Guide (Ovid)

Reaxys

Contains an extensive repository of experimentally validated data that chemists need, such as structures, reactions (including multi-step reactions), and physical properties. Provides relevant data not found elsewhere, drawn from source publications carefully selected for their importance and relevance to synthetic chemists. Includes Beilstein, Gmelin, and Patent Chemistry Database content, as well as information on inorganic and organometallic substances. Provided jointly by UT Southwestern Medical Center Library and the Department of Biochemistry.
       Link:
Reaxys 
Reaxys (registration for optional personalized features) 
       Help:
Reaxys FAQ (UT Southwestern)
Reaxys Overview
Reaxys Technical Information
Reaxys Help Contents Details/Sources
  Tutorial:
Reaxys Training Center

ScienceDirect

Contains full-text journals in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences. Also contains abstracts from non-Elsevier core journals in the major scientific disciplines and the ability to link directly to full-text articles licensed through other science, techncology, and medicine publishers. Includes Scirus, a Web search engine that focuses on scientific content only and searches both Web and proprietary databases for information that complements ScienceDirect content. Provided by UT Southwestern and the UT System Libraries.
  Tutorial:
ScienceDirect Tutorials
ScienceDirect User Guides and Tutorials

SciFinder

Provides graphical access to Chemical Abstracts Service and MEDLINE. Covers the full spectrum of chemical and biomedical information, including biochemistry, organic/inorganic chemistry, and chemical engineering/applied chemistry. Substructure and reaction searching are also available. Provided by UT Southwestern and the UT System Libraries.
       Link:
SciFinder (Web version - for registered users only)
SciFinder Web Registration (for first-time users)
       Help:
SciFinder Overview
SciFinder Support and Training - Web version
SciFinder Technical FAQ
SciFinder Web UT Southwestern FAQ

Scopus

Multidisciplinary scientific database covering 25 million abstracts from over 14,000 titles across 4,000 publishers. Includes journal articles, patents, conference proceedings, and Web sites in the physical sciences, health sciences, life sciences, and social sciences. Covers journals from 1966 to the present.
       Help:
Scopus Help
Who is Citing Your Articles? (UT Southwestern Library) 
  Tutorial:
Author and Affiliation Searching in Scopus (Elsevier)
Browsing and Analyzing Journals in Scopus (Elsevier)
Cited Reference Searching in Scopus (Elsevier)
Performing a Document Search in Scopus (Elsevier)
Review Search Results in Scopus (Elsevier)
Scopus: Who Is Citing Your Articles? 
Using the Personalized Features in Scopus (Elsevier)

VPN - Juniper

Juniper SSL VPN is a web alternative that provides access to UT Southwestern resources through either a secure Web gateway (for Web resources only) or a client download (for a more secure connection to the UT Southwestern network).
       Help:
Juniper VPN (IR)
Accessing Key Resources from Off-Campus without VPN

Web of Science

Covers more than 10,000 high-impact journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities, as well as international proceedings coverage for over 120,000 conferences. Includes cited reference searching and Citation Maps (i.e., a graphical representation that shows citation relationships between a paper and other papers). Access is provided to the Science Citation Index (1965-present), Social Sciences Citation Index (1965-present), Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present), Conference Proceedings Citation Index: Science Ediction (1990-present), and Conference Proceedings: Social Sciences & Humanities Edition (1990-present). Provided by UT Southwestern and the UT System Libraries.
       Help:
Web of Science Quick Reference Card (ISI)
Who is Citing Your Articles? (UT Southwestern Library) 
  Tutorial:
Citation Alerts in Web of Science (ISI) 
Citation Report and h Index (ISI) 
Cited Reference Searching (ISI) 
Managing Search Results in Web of Science (ISI)   
Saving Search Histories and Creating Alerts in Web of Science (ISI) 
Search Proceedings Literature in Web of Science (ISI) 
Search Tips for Web of Science (ISI) 
Web of Science Tutorial (ISI)
Web of Science: Who is Citing Your Articles? (UT Southwestern Library) 

Wireless Access On Campus

Wireless access refers to using a laptop or mobile device on campus to access campus systems and services (like electronic journals, Mednet servers, etc.) without being tied to the network by cabling.

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Wireless Access

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