LibGuides: Physician Assistant: Databases

Database Links

Remote Access

You can access the library's databases remotely (off campus) with your LIU Brooklyn email user name and password. After the "Remote Access Login Screen" appears, type in your LIU email and password. Click the "LOGIN" button. Database access is limited to current students, faculty, and staff.

Call Reference at 718-780-4513 if you are unable to access the databases.

Medical Database Tutorials

CINAHL Basic Searching Tutorial
This tutorial demonstrates the basic searching features of the suite of CINAHL databases on EBSCOhost.
CINAHL Advanced Searching Tutorial
This tutorial demonstrates the advanced searching features of the suite of CINAHL databases on EBSCOhost.
CINAHL/MeSH Headings Tutorial
This tutorial demonstrates the features of the MEDLINE Complete database on the EBSCOhost interface, including basic searching and narrowing results on the result list.
Cochrane Library Tutorial
This five minute video created by Pace University offers an introduction to finding systematic reviews in Cochrane.
DynaMed Tutorial
DynaMed™ is a clinician-focused tool designed to facilitate efficient and evidence-based patient care. DynaMed combines the highest quality evidence-based information with a user-friendly, personalized experience that delivers accurate answers fast. In this tutorial, we look at how to search DynaMed as well as following Topics and Alerts.

Streaming Video

Bates' Visual Guide to Physical Examination This link opens in a new window
Features web-based video platform physical examination techniques for students and faculty in medical, nursing and related programs.

PubMED vs. PubMed Central

PubMed comprises more than 38 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

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).

PubMed This link opens in a new window
The National Library of Medicine's index of journals, books, papers, conference proceedings. Covers the world's biomedical literature. In addition to the bibliographic citation, abstracts are included, as well as links to related articles and, when available, to molecular sequence databases and full-text articles.
See also MEDLINE: PubMed.
PubMed Central (PMC) This link opens in a new window
PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature, developed and managed by NIH's National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in the National Library of Medicine (NLM).

Medical Online Databases

Online databases are used to access articles in both scholarly (peer-reviewed) and popular periodicals. (For info about scholarly vs. popular sources, check out this brief video).

If you're looking for peer-reviewed journal articles you can check out the medical databases that the library subscribes to- several are recommended for you below.

Once you open a database, enter your search terms in the search box. If you want to open a full text (whole) article within your search results, look for the words "PDF" or "HTML full text" under the article citation. If you don't see either of these terms, click on the "Check LinkSource for Full-Text" link.

If you don't see any of these options in the search results, LIU doesn't have the article in question. You can request any articles LIU doesn't have from Interlibrary Loan.
Click here for database search strategies from LIU librarians!

**A note to anyone who uses Google (or another Internet search engine) to look for articles: Articles found on Google will often try to get you to pay. As long as you're a student at LIU you can generally get any articles you want from our databases or Interlibrary Loan free of charge.**

Selected Databases

CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window
CINAHL®Complete is the world’s most comprehensive source of full-text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 1,300 journals indexed in CINAHL. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index, with no embargo. CINAHL®Complete is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing & allied health literature.
Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window
A unique source of reliable and up-to-date information on the effects of interventions in health care. Published on a quarterly basis, The Cochrane Library is designed to provide information and evidence to support decisions taken in health care and to inform those receiving care.
DynaMed This link opens in a new window
DynaMed, an evidence-based clinical decision support tool, provides comprehensive coverage and current, relevant clinical updates, bringing vital knowledge to physicians and healthcare professionals at the point of care. Curated from more than 500 medical journals. It incorporates over 21,000 global guidelines including National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) guidelines.
MEDLINE This link opens in a new window
MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.
APA PsycInfo This link opens in a new window
The APA PsycInfo® database, American Psychological Association’s (APA) renowned resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. It contains records and summaries dating as far back as the 1600s with one of the highest DOI matching rates in the publishing industry. Journal coverage, which spans from the 1800s to the present, includes international material selected from periodicals in dozens of languages.
Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print This link opens in a new window
Produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership.
DSM V (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) This link opens in a new window
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Collection of full-text journals covering science, medicine, technology, business, social sciences, and more.
Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
Wiley offers a wide range of academic and professional journals, covering subjects such as life, health and physical sciences, social science and the humanities.

Locating Evidence-Based Practice Articles in CINAHL

Created by Greenley Library, SUNY Farmingdale State College, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPn-243KgV8