Guide to Library Services at Naas General Hospital: Databases

PubMed comprises more than 34 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. PubMed covers medicine, nursing and related health science subjects. PubMed is a free resource that is developed and maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), located at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

CINAHL is the world’s most comprehensive source of full-text for nursing and allied health journals, providing full text for more than 1,300 journals indexed in CINAHL. This database contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index, with no embargo. CINAHL is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature.

More information on CINAHL here.

PEDro (Physiotherapy Evidence Database) is a bibliographic database containing randomized trials, clinical practice guidelines and systematic reviews in the field of physiotherapy. All trials on PEDro are independently assessed for quality. 

A search guide can be found here.

The Cochrane Library is a collection of six databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision making, including the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials.At its core is the collection of Cochrane Reviews, a database of systematic reviews and meta-analyses which summarise and interpret the results of medical research.

More information on how to use the Cochrane Library is available here.

Web of Science is a comprehensive research platform. Journal articles, patents, websites, conference proceedings and Open Access material can all be accessed through the interface, using a variety of powerful search and analysis tools. Web of Science Core Collection is an actively curated database of the journals that researchers themselves have judged to be the most important and useful in their fields.

More information on Web of Science available here.

Lenus is Ireland's leading health repository. It contains journal articles, dissertations, HSE publications and the collected output of more than 130 health organisations past and present, all freely accessible

A user guide is available here.

OTseeker is a database that contains abstracts of systematic reviews, randomised controlled trials and other resources relevant to occupational therapy interventions. Most trials have been critically appraised for their validity and interpretability.

A search help guide is available here.

Embase is a biomedical and pharmacological database containing more than 30 million records including articles from more than 8,500 journals published world-wide. It contains bibliographic records with citations, abstracts and indexing derived from biomedical articles in peer reviewed journals, and is especially strong in its coverage of drug and pharmaceutical research, pharmacology and toxicology.

A link to the database is available from the Naas General Hospital Library page.

A full guide to Embase is available here.

PsycINFO is a database of abstracts of literature in the field of psychology and related disciplines such as psychiatry and medicine.

Help on using the database is available here.