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Health & Medicine

Medical research databases
 

Starting database
 

The core database for medical research is Medline; you can search it via PubMed or Ovid. We recommend you use Medline as a starting point for your research on medical topics. 

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Produced by National Library of Medicine, covers international literature on biomedicine and health, 5,600+ journals

 

Other health databases
 

In addition to Medline, you may like to search some of the other health databases listed under Multidisciplinary resources. Many of them include medical and allied health content.

Searching databases for a systematic or scoping review


If you are doing a systematic or scoping review, you can find tips on how many and which databases to search on our systematic review guide: