Library: Find Articles: Specialty Search Engines

Specialty Search Engines

ACCESSSS Smart Search. Best Evidence for Health Care from McMaster PLUS
Provides "one-stop" access to pre-appraised evidence to address this key question: what is the current best evidence available to support clinical decisions?
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Requires free registration.
Alcohol and Drug Foundation Digital Library
Free access to reports, e-books, full text journal articles and more. Browse the e-journals A-Z, or get started with one of the popular searches.
Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet
Campbell Collaboration - Social Science Research Network - Library of Systematic Reviews
An international research network that produces systematic reviews of the effects of social interventions in Crime & Justice, Education, International Development, and Social Welfare.
CareSearch Palliative Care Knowledge Network
Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (University of York)
CRD is a world renowned institute that produces policy relevant research and innovative methods that advance the use of research evidence to improve population health.
ChemAlert for EMHS use only
Database of independently researched chemical reports that provide information allowing for the evaluation of potential hazards and the safe handling of products in the workplace.
ChemAlert for SMHS use only
Database of independently researched chemical reports that provide information allowing for the evaluation of potential hazards and the safe handling of products in the workplace.
Chemical Hazards Emergency Medical Management (CHEMM)
Child Trends
ClinVar
Disaster Lit from the Disaster Information Management Research Center
DiTA Diagnostic Test Accuracy [evaluates the accuracy of diagnostic tests used by physiotherapists]
DORIS: Database Of Research In Stroke
ERIC - Education Resources Information Center
Federal Science Library [Canada] - Health Library Collection
Find Zebra - Rare Disease Search
Hazardous Chemical Information System (HCIS) - Safe Work Australia
The information provided here relates to manufactured chemicals and how to manage them. Search by hazardous chemical or exposure standards.
Health Services Research (HSR) PubMed Queries
This page provides specialized PubMed searches on healthcare quality and costs.
Health Systems Evidence (HSE)
A continuously updated repository of syntheses of research evidence about governance, financial and delivery arrangements within health systems, and about implementation strategies that can support change in health systems.
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The types of syntheses include evidence briefs for policy, overviews of systematic reviews, systematic reviews, systematic reviews in progress (i.e. protocols for systematic reviews), and systematic reviews being planned (i.e. registered titles for systematic reviews). Health Systems Evidence also contains a continuously updated repository of economic evaluations in these same domains, descriptions of health system reforms (with links to syntheses and economic evaluations when possible), and descriptions of health systems (to assist with assessments of the local applicability of research evidence and of how reforms are embedded within health systems).
McMaster University.
IBD Watch
IDEAS
Bibliographic database dedicated to economics.
IndexCat
The Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General’s Office (Index-Catalogue) is a multi-part printed bibliography or list of items in the Library of the Surgeon-General’s Office, U.S. Army.
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It contains material dated from the 1400s through 1950 and is an important resource for researchers in the history of medicine, history of science, and for clinical research.
Internet Archive Wayback Machine
James Lind Library
Explaining and illustrating the evolution of fair tests of medical treatments.
McMaster Health Forum | Find Evidence
Access three types of evidence products: rapid syntheses prepared for health-system leaders in three, 10 or 30 business days; evidence briefs that inform our stakeholder dialogues; and citizen briefs that inform our citizen panels.
MedNar
A medically-focused deep web search engine
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)
NeuroBITE - NeuroRehab Evidence Resource
previously PsycBITE
NIHR National Institute for Health Research [UK] Evidence
NIHR National Institute for Health Research [UK] Journals Library
Nutrition Evidence
An online collection of high quality nutritional science and lifestyle medicine research.
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This library is designed to support practitioners’ clinical decisions that enable their delivering effective, individualised evidence-based recommendations.
OMIM - Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man
Open-i - Open Access Biomedical Image Search Engine
OSF (Open Science Framework) Registries
OTseeker
Provides fast and easy access to information from a wide range of sources to inform occupational therapy
PDQ-Evidence for Informed Health Policymaking
PDQ (“pretty darn quick”)-Evidence facilitates rapid access to the best available evidence for decisions about health systems.
PEDro - Physiotherapy Evidence Database
PROSPERO - International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews
REHABDATA - National Rehabilitation Information Center (NARIC)
NARIC's collection now includes a substantial amount of international research, originally collected by the NIDILRR-funded Center for International Rehabilitation Research Information and Exchange (CIRRIE) at the University of Buffalo over more than 15 years of active collection development.
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More than 115,000 abstracts were moved from CIRRIE to the NARIC collection and integrated into our REHABDATA search apparatus. Under the current NARIC contract, we will continue to add new records and grow this important collection of disability and rehabilitation research.
Retraction Watch Database
SafetyLit - Injury Prevention Literature
SpeechBITE - Speech Pathology Evidence Database
Spinal Cord Injury Research Evidence (SCIRE) Project
Up-to-date, accurate information about the treatments and outcome measures for people with SCI.
Springer Nature Experiments
Stem Cell Evidence
A comprehensive collection of high quality research relevant to haematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Articles are pre-selected for clinical relevance and methodological quality, to easily identify high quality papers and to keep up-to-date in your field.
Transfusion Evidence Library
An information resource that provides access to evidence-based publications (Systematic Reviews, Randomised Controlled Trials and Health Economic Evaluations) on all aspects of transfusion medicine.
Transplant Library
Access evidence-based information on all of aspects of solid organ transplantation including RCTs, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines.
Trialstreamer: A living, automatically updated database of clinical trial reports
Trove - Research and Reports category