1965 to present. National Library of Medicine. The authoritative index in the field of medicine. International in scope, it indexes approximately 4000 journals in the medical field. Health professionals should use this database with its powerful search engine, as it provides searching capabilities using all avenues of access.
Emphasis is on diseases and disorders, their diagnosis, treatment and prevention.
Allied health professionals will need to look here for research on diseases, procedures and disorders. Web of Science . 1994 to present. ISI Institute for Scientific Information. The Science Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the sciences.