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Key Subject Resources

These are the key databases we recommend that you use, a more complete list is available from our Medicine Database page. All electronic resources can be accessed off-campus through the Southampton Virtual Environment (SVE).

MEDLINE (Ovid)
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MEDLINE is the world's best-known medicine and clinical science database, covering literature from around the world since 1946. It has a comprehensive set of controlled vocabulary called Medical Subject Headings (MeSH terms). MEDLINE is also available free on the web as PubMed.

MEDLINE is available on a number of different platforms - we recommend the Ovid version for students and staff in the Faculty of Medicine (since EMBASE is also hosted on Ovid). If you prefer to search PubMed, we suggest you use our links to it, as this will ensure your results point to the full text of our journals in addition to free articles.
EMBASE
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EMBASE is a leading clinical medicine and biomedical database - similar in coverage to MEDLINE but with particular strengths in drugs, toxicology, biotechnology, health affairs and forensic medicine.

EMBASE covers human medicine and related biomedical research including: drugs, toxicology, clinical medicine, biotechnology, health affairs, psychiatry and forensic medicine. EMBASE includes all MEDLINE records, plus several million of its own - giving it rather better coverage of the literature in topics such as pharmaceuticals and of the European literature in general.
Cochrane Library
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The Cochrane Library is the home of the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, the leading resource for systematic reviews in health care. It also contains a register of controlled trials, Cochrane Clinical Answers, and Special Collections - curated content collections on specific healthcare topics.

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Your Academic Engagement Librarians

Undergraduate programmes: Ric Paul
Postgraduate programmes: Paula Sands
Email: hslib@soton.ac.uk
Tel: 023 8120 6541 | From SGH 6541 | From Highfield 71 6541

Your Research Engagement Librarian

Name: Paula Sands
Email: hslib@soton.ac.uk
Tel: 023 8120 6541 | From SGH 6541 | From Highfield 71 6541

New Resources
Gale - a collection of primary and secondary sources which cover medicine, engineering, history, politics, sociology, philosophy, economics and many other subjects. Provides access to books, archival materials and news sources.