Medical Library Resources

What: Embase is a biomedical and literature database offering clinical practice, research, and medical education tools and resources. 

Where: Access via browser. 

• Embase

How: 

• Videos: Embase Literature Search Demo

Features:

• EBM, gray literature, journals, PICO
• Emtree [controlled vocabulary] 
• Email alerts: for searching

What: Use this Google Scholar link to see full-text options via Find it @ FAU.
Provides a search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles.

Where: Access via browser.

• Google Scholar

Features:

• Journals
• Email Alerts: for search term(s)

What: An online resource for the teaching, learning, and application of evidence-based medicine, JAMAevidence helps students and clinicians identify, appraise, and use the best available evidence to assess health problems and the outcomes of health care.

Where: Access via browser. 

• JAMAevidence

Features: Books, Calculators, Educational Guides/ Slide sets, JAMAedidence Glossary, Learning Tools: Worksheets, Audio resources and Podcasts

What: Provides publisher-neutral data, statistics, and citation metrics about scholarly research, as well as a journal’s role within and influence upon the global research community. Includes access to the Journal Impact Factor™ (JIF).

Where: Access via browser. 

• Journal Citation Reports

Features: 

• Manuscript matching

What: The Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) is a peer reviewed scientific video journal, illustrating new experimental techniques. Access provided for JoVE Biology and JoVE Neuroscience.

Where: Access via browser. 

• JoVE

Features: Journals, multimedia. 

What: LWW Health Library is a medical education resource providing textbooks, cases, and study tools.   

Where: Access via browser. 

• LWW Health Library

Features:

• Books, cases, multimedia
• USMLE study tools: self assessments

What: Mango Connect is an online self-paced language learning system covering over 40 languages and including 16 ESL classes taught in the native language. Each lesson combines real life situations and audio from native speakers with simple, clear instructions.

• Student Tech Fee funded

Where: Access via browser or app. 

• Browser: Mango Languages 
• App: iOS| Android
  • Download the app to get your first language in any language for free. Link your profile to FAU Libraries to gain full access to Mango content. 

Features: 40+ languages, medical Spanish lessons. 

What: Authoritative resource on dietary supplements, natural medicines, and complementary alternative and integrative therapies.

Where: Access via browser.

• Natural Medicine

Features:

• CME, diagnostic tests, drug information, EBM
• Patient education: English, Spanish, and French

What: Includes full-text access to 80 titles from Nature Publishing Group and partner societies, with archives dating back to 1869. Search across life science and physical research journals, life science review journals, clinical review journals, as well as complimentary web content. Includes titles such as Nature, Nature Protocols, Nature Communications, Nature Methods, and Scientific American.

Where: Access via browser. 

• Direct link: Nature
• Direct link A-Z Nature Specialty journals
• Browse all Full Text links provided by the libraries: Primo Catalog

Features: Images, journals

What: Ovid Online includes Journals @Ovid Full Text and Books @Ovid.

• Books @Ovid: This resource includes full text, references, updates, and graphics from some of the most respected sources in medicine, nursing, and pharmacology.
• Journals @Ovid: An aggregated online database of all Ovid journals. (FAU subscription provides access to a portion of these journals.)

Where: Access via browser. 

• Ovid Online

Features: 

• Books, images, journals, multimedia

Note: Access is limited to 1 or 3 simultaneous users for some content.