Guides @ UF: Surgery Resources: Journals & Databases

Listed below are a few databases that might be useful when beginning your information search. For a more complete list, please see our page of Library Databases.

PubMed
PubMed comprises more than 25 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.
Embase
Cochrane Library
The Cochrane Library contains high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making
Web of Science
The Web of Science® (formerly Web of Knowledge) is today's premier research platform, helping you quickly find, analyze, and share information in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.
UpToDate
UpToDate is an evidence-based, physician-authored clinical decision support resource which clinicians consult when making point-of-care decisions. An editorial team condenses the most recent medical information into evidence-based recommendations to improve patient care and quality.

Courtesy of the College of Medicine Office of Graduate Medical Education
CINAHL
Nursing and allied health journals, publications from the American Nurses' Association and the National League for Nursing, dissertations, standards, legislation, videos and books. State nursing journals and nursing practice acts often available in full-text.
AccessMedicine
AccessMedicine offers instant access to videos, self-assessment, an image library and leading medical textbooks that facilitate decision-making at the point-of-care to ensure the best patient outcome.
MICROMEDEX Healthcare Series
MICROMEDEX is an excellent source of drug indication, dosage, drug interaction and side effect information, as well as poison control information. It covers all FDA approved medications as well as a database of alternative medicines.
Clinical Pharmacology
Clinical Pharmacology provides a single resource to answer all your medication questions, empowering you to maximize your time and productivity. The content is updated “live” to include newly released drug products and breaking developments.

Do you think a database is right for your search, but you have no idea how to use it? No worries, check out these tutorials!

PubMed
A longer tutorial on running a PubMed search
PubMed videos
Short videos assisting with PubMed searches
Web of Science
Video tutorials on running searches in Web of Science
CINAHL
Basic search tutorial video for CINAHL and EBSCOhost databases

Journal Impact Factors

The impact factor of a journal is a measurement that reflects the average number of times that articles in a particular journal have been cited. The measurement changes from year to year, and is based on data from the previous two years. This measurement is often used to estimate the relative importance of a journal in its particular science or social science field.

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)
To locate the impact factor of a particular journal:
* Go to Journal Citation Reports (JCR)
* Select the option to "Search for a specific journal."
* Type in the journal title
* Click the Search button.
Journal Citation Reports (JCR)
To create a list of journals in a particular field:
* Go to Journal Citation Reports (JCR)
* Select the option to "View a group of journals by subject category."
* Select the relevant subject category
* Click the Submit button.
You can sort by journal title or impact factor.

Please note: Not all journals are included in JCR and so every journal may not have an impact factor. There are also many other considerations for determining the importance and quality of a journal beyond the impact factor. Remember to log in to the VPN or proxy service if you are accessing library resources when you are off campus.

The links below direct you to the library catalog record for the listed journal title.