LibGuides: Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery: Databases

Google Scholar: searches across all Mayo Clinic Libraries' databases simultaneously. Start at the Mayo Clinic Libraries' website and you can link from Google Scholar to full-text of articles to which Mayo Clinic Libraries subscribes or which are free. Click the "Full text SFX" link to the right of each search result. This may not be available on some results.

Video: Find full-text articles from Google Scholar

Video: Import References from Google Scholar into EndNote

Google quick tips:

Search for organizations site:.org

Search for government websites site:.gov

Retrieve a particular file type. For example PDF's, filetype:pdf

Put -(minus sign) in front of a word you want to leave out. For example, mexico -new

Put a word or phrase inside quotes. For example, "health analytics"

Try the Advanced Search to apply multiple limits simultaneously: https://www.google.com/advanced_search

PubMed
Free database from National Library of Medicine. Contains 'vetted' content indexed for MEDLINE and other non-vetted content including PubMed Central, a free digital archive of biomedical literature.
Embase
Strong emphasis on drug-related literature & toxicology, in addition to all espects of human medicine. Also covers nursing, dentistry, paramedical professions, podiatry, homeopathy. (Includes MEDLINE but can exclude those records).

Mayo Libraries' Licensed Databases

Business Source Premier
Provides full text to more than 8,500 business journals and other sources covering virtually all subject areas related to business.
EBSCO MegaFILE
Search Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, and Regional Business News databases simultaneously
IEEE Explore
From IEEE. A digital library providing full text access to technical literature in engineering, computer science, and electronics. Contains full text documents from IEEE journals, transactions, magazines, letters, conference proceedings and standards.
Ovid HealthSTAR
Citations to the non-clinical aspects of health care delivery including planning, administration, facilities, regulations, quality assurance, health insurance, finance, personnel, licensure and accreditation.

SCOPUS
Licensed database from Elsevier. Includes articles from more than 4,000 publishers, covering the scientific, medical, technical & the social sciences.
Web of Science
Online version of Science Citation Index, also known as "Web of Knowledge".
Google Scholar
Google Scholar can be used as a citation database. Perform your search. In the results, if Google Scholar has found materials that cite the article, there will be a “Cited by” link underneath the item title.
Note: To import items into EndNote, click the Google Menu at the top left, then click the settings gear icon, then under "Bibliography manager", select "show links to import into", then choose EndNote from the drop down box.

Making your own account in databases like PubMed, Ovid, and EBSCOHost allows you to store your own search strategies for automatic updates, organize folders for subject collections, and save articles.

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