Waggoner Library: Master: Physician Assistant Research Guide: Articles & Databases

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Library databases and medical journals can be used to discover articles in the medical field from all perspectives. Peruse the tabs to see what the library has available for you.

The Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window
The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. Cochrane reviews represent the highest level of evidence on which to base clinical treatment decisions. In addition to Cochrane reviews, The Cochrane Library provides other sources of reliable information, from other systematic review abstracts, technology assessments, economic evaluations and individual clinical trials - all the current evidence in one single environment.

The Cochrane Library (ISSN 1465-1858) is a collection of six databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making and a seventh database that provides information about Cochrane groups.

BioMed Central This link opens in a new window
BioMed Central is an STM (Science, Technology and Medicine) publisher of 291 peer-reviewed open access journals. The portfolio of journals spans all areas of biology, biomedicine and medicine.

The BMC platform allows for limited searching, and users can also browse the list of journals by subject or title.

Coronavirus Research Database This link opens in a new window
The Coronavirus Research Database is a collection of journal articles, preprints, conference proceedings, dissertations and more related to COVID-19 and other coronaviruses. It includes comprehensive research background coverage of past pandemics and epidemics, like MERS and SARS, to give researchers and students context around the current global crisis.

This guide provides information for searching resources on the ProQuest platform, including the Coronavirus Research Database.

Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine This link opens in a new window
This database is the perfect resource for up-to-date information on a complete range of healthcare topics. Ethics, patient care, management, legal and policy issues are some of the topics covered.

Learn more about searching and using resources from Gale OneFile: Heatlh and Medicine through these videos.

JAMA This link opens in a new window
JAMA, published continuously since 1883, is an international peer-reviewed general medical journal. JAMA is the most widely circulated general medical journal in the world. Waggoner Library has access to JAMA from 1998 to the present.

Basic search functionality (searching by keyword) is available on JAMA's website. Each issue of JAMA is also browsable on the website. Articles from JAMA will come up in Discovery search results as well.

Please note that JAMA's website includes issues of JAMA and other JAMA-related publications that the library does not subscribe to. These resources can be requested from interlibrary loan.

MEDLINE® This link opens in a new window
MEDLINE® is a bibliographic (citation & abstract only) database produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine that is searchable through ProQuest. The database contains millions of citations derived from thousands of biomedical and life science journals and indexed with Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®) from the NLM-controlled vocabulary.
Coverage: 1946 - Current

This guide provides information for searching resources on the ProQuest platform, including MEDLINE.

PubMed Central® This link opens in a new window
PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM). Over 3.8 million articles.

Learn how to use PubMed Central through the PMC User Guide.

PubMed® This link opens in a new window
The PubMed® database contains more than 36 million citations and abstracts of biomedical literature. It does not include full-text journal articles; however, links to the full text are often present when available from other sources, such as the publisher's website or PubMed Central® (PMC).

PubMed Clinical Queries
This tool uses predefined filters to help you quickly refine PubMed searches on clinical or disease-specific topics. To use this tool, enter your search terms in the search bar and select filters before searching.