The A.D.A.M. Medical Encyclopedia includes over 4.000 articles about diseases, tests, symptoms, injuries, and surgeries. It also contains an extensive library of medical photographs and illustrations. For more information about A.D.A.M., see its content review board

AccessMedicine offers integrated access to 19 medical handbooks, 50 textbooks and podcasts, with facilities for compiling topics, tutorials etc.

Acland’s Video Atlas of Human Anatomy is a 3D anatomy video atlas of fresh anatomical specimens in their natural colours. It includes more than 300 narrated videos organised by regions into five volumes. Each volume offers in-depth coverage of the bones, joints, muscles, and more. Access until December 31, 2023.

Manual for writing and publishing according to the rules of the American Medical Association (AMA), 10th ed.
Please logoff after use; the license is for 3 concurrent users only.

Abstracts and full text articles from 16 journals published by ASM.

APA PsycInfo covers the entire spectrum of human and animal psychology and behavioural science. It also offers information regarding language and communication, culture and society, psychochemistry and statistics. Contains abstracts from journal articles, but also books and book chapters.

Access to more than 200 BMC electronic journals and to bibliographical information from a large number of biomedical journals.

The latest research evidence, guidelines and expert opinion - presented in a step-by-step approach, covering prevention, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis.

Overall database of literature references from 1910 onwards for veterinary medicine, animal production, agriculture and related sciences, such as human nutrition, and management & conservation of natural resources.

The Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) contains the bibliographical information of articles from nearly every English language nursing/medical journal and a number of journals from related areas.
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A clinical search engine that supports clinical decisions by making it easier to find and apply relevant knowledge. It includes a large collection of (study) books, journals, clinical overviews, videos, images and more.

Information on the effectiveness of health care on the grounds of evidence-based medicine. Includes The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness, and The Cochrane Controlled Trials Register.

Current Protocols in Cell Biology contains protocols relating to cell biology research.

Current Protocols in Cytometry contains protocols relating to cytometry research.

Current Protocols in Immunology provides the most comprehensive and practical compilation of immunology methods available.

In this standard reference work the basic methods for DNA preparation and isolation, library screening and sequencing have been joined by more advanced procedures detailing DNA-protein interactions, phosphorylation analyses, in situ hybridisation and immunohistochemistry.

Electronic theses produced by scientists at Utrecht University.
As from 2006, theses are stored in electronic form in the Utrecht University Repository (formerly Igitur Archive), the Utrecht University digital scientific archive. As from November, 2014, this repository is visible via the Dutch national portal, NARCIS.
Theses from before 2006 may have been published in electronic form, but most are to be found as printed publications in the catalogue.

The Directory of Open Access Journals gives a subject listing of, often fairly new, free online journals. About half of these are searchable on article level.

Electronic theses produced by scientists at Utrecht University.
As from 2006, theses are stored in electronic form in the Utrecht University Repository (formerly Igitur Archive), the Utrecht University digital scientific archive. As from November, 2014, this repository is visible via the Dutch national portal, NARCIS.
Theses from before 2006 may have been published in electronic form, but most are to be found as printed publications in the catalogue.

Reference guide to drugs commonly prescribed to pregnant or lactating women. Potential side effects on the embryo and fetus and drug passage to the nursing infant and FDA Risk Factor ratings for each drug are included.

DSM Library contains: DSM-V Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, DSM-V Handbook of Differential Diagnosis and DSM-V Clinical Cases.
Previous versions of DSM are available as well.

The NAZ (Dutch Article Database for Care) is a database with journal articles from around 100 Dutch-language journals that are relevant to nurses and carers. The magazines are made available from 1993.

eLS (formerly known as the Encyclopedia of Life Sciences) is a monthly-updating reference work containing more than 5,000 articles written by leaders in the field, specially commissioned, peer-reviewed and citable. It offers comprehensive and authoritative coverage of the life sciences for students, lecturers and researchers alike.

Embase enables to search across EMBASE (1974-...) and MEDLINE (1966-...) concurrently.
EMBASE (Exerpta Medica Database) is the European counterpart of MEDLINE; only EMBASE and unique MEDLINE records are presented (already de-duplicated).
Key topics are pharmacology, drug development, medical education and health care management.
Embase consists of 18 million records from 6,500 journals from 70 countries. Embase is updated daily; yearly some 600,000 references are added.

A multidisciplinary online encyclopedia in the field of neuroscience with topics ranging from neuro-ethology, learning and memory, behavioral and psychiatric diseases.

Comprehensive review of all parasites and therapeutic strategies in animal and human parasitology, including life cycles, morphology, drug action, insecticides and vaccination. With many tables and high quality figures.

The Farmacotherapeutic Compass (“Farmacotherapeutisch Kompas”) gives information about drugs available in the Netherlands. Every drug is provided with an advice on prescription based on farmacotherapeutic and economic grounds. This website is primarily meant for doctors and pharmacists .

A bibliographic database containing more than 4 million mostly unique scientific records from 1973 to the present day, with more than 100.000 full text articles. Global Health is a specialist database dedicated to public health, completing the picture of international medical and health research.

Health and Psychosocial Instruments provides access to information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/ manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests) in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science.

Enables to search the entire contents of the most recent edition of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine. Updated daily.

IEEE Xplore is a research database for discovery of journal articles, conference proceedings, technical standards, and related materials on computer science, electrical engineering and electronics, and allied fields. It contains material published mainly by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and other partner publishers like Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).
NOTE: Anyone can search IEEE Xplore and find bibliographic records and abstracts for its contents, while access to full-text documents requires an individual or institutional subscription.

IMAIOS is an online atlas of human anatomy (including X-ray and MRI images) for physicians, radiologists, medical students and radiographers.

Het Informatorium Medicamentorum (IM) in de KNMP Kennisbank geeft informatie over alle geneesmiddelen die in Nederland in gebruik zijn. Alle geregistreerde toepassingen zijn hierin terug te vinden.

This page provide links to Web sites which provide instructions to authors for over 3,500 journals in the health and life sciences. All links are to "primary sources" - that is, to publishers and organizations with editorial responsibilities for the titles.

Database containing descriptions of more than 50 nursing journals in the Dutch language (Netherlands and Belgium). Indexing starts in 1993. Approx. 2,500 records are added every year.

Bibliography in the field of History of Science, Technology, and Medicine.

JCR provides a ranking on the basis of factors such as impact (with a 5 year trend) , immediacy index and cited halflife for 10,000 journals. The citation information is taken from the Science Citation Index and the Social Sciences Citation Index, and is mostly used to rank the relative importance of journals with their subject categories.

JSTOR offers full-text access to an archive database of ca. 700 English-language journals in various disciplines. All volumes (including the earliest) are available and can be searched in full text; the most recent years are not included in this archive due to copyright. Collections: Arts and Sciences I, II, III, V en VII, Business, Collection Ireland, Ecology and Botany, Health and General sciences, Language and Literature.
If you are interested in text mining options, please contact the library (library@uu.nl).

KNMP Kennisbank ('the KNMP knowledge database') is an online reference work for pharmacists. De KNMP Kennisbank supports pharmacists in their work, both in the field of their profession and in the everyday practice of their jobs. The Kennisbank includes the Informatorium Medicamentorum and the databases Medicatiebewaking and Bereiden. The KNMP Kennisbank is in Dutch only.

Contains over 28 million journal citations and abstracts for biomedical literature from around the world. MEDLINE can also be searched via PubMed.

National Academic Research and Collaborations Information System.
Narcis is the national portal for scientific information including (open access) publications from the Dutch repositories, data sets from a number of data archives, and there are descriptions of research projects, researchers and research institutes included.

The NAZ (Dutch Article Database for Care) is a database with journal articles from around 100 Dutch-language journals that are relevant to nurses and carers. The magazines are made available from 1993.

A growing number of Practice Guidelines published by the Dutch College of General Practitioners (NHG).The guidelines hold an integral place in all initial General Practitioner education programs in The Netherlands. Additionally, they often form the basis of continuing education programs. The guidelines will be translated into English.

Reference work on nutrition by the American Dietetic Association.

Index of millions of publications that have become available for free through the Open Archive Initiative (OAI). These are mainly in publication repositories of universities and in the growing number of free Open Archive journals. Many of these publications are not in regular journal databases.
In principle OAIster covers all subjects. For all publications there are links to the full text.

The Directory of Open Access Repositories. OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories.

Overton is a search engine that helps to find millions of policy documents from all countries and in all languages by subject, title, organization and more. The full texts are also searchable. Overton also allows users to see, track and analyze mentions of publications and other research output in policy documents.
NB This is a one-year license, to be evaluated at the end of 2022. Please send your experiences and suggestions to library@uu.nl.

Contains over 28 million journal citations and abstracts for biomedical literature from around the world. MEDLINE can also be searched via PubMed.

Oxford Reference brings together language and subject dictionaries, encyclopedias, maps, quotations and reference works across various subject areas into a single cross-searchable resource.

PEDro is the Physiotherapy Evidence Database. PEDro is a free database of over 18,000 randomised trials, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy.

PiCarta searches the Dutch Central Catalogue NCC, Online Contents and a number of bibliographical databases with a single search question. These sources can also be accessed separately through the 'Other databases' menu. You can restrict the search result to specific types of publications with 'Search options'. Hits can be sorted according to relevance or publication year. Consult the help function for advanced searches.

A comprehensive medical dictionary in Dutch with 50.000 references.

Primal Pictures is an anatomical database. Genuine medical scan data have been translated into three-dimensional images by an expert team of graphics specialists. The anatomy visuals are accompanied by three-dimensional animations that demonstrate function, biomechanics and surgical procedures. This database also contains text and video – these work best with Firefox from UMC Utrecht.

Protein Misfolding Disorders: A Trip into the ER gives a comprehensive overview of the possible mechanisms involved in protein Misfolding Disorders such as Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Prion-related disorders and Huntington’s disease) and possible therapeutic strategies to treat these diseases.

An integrated access to journals and reference works published by the American Psychiatric Association (including DSM Library).

APA PsycInfo covers the entire spectrum of human and animal psychology and behavioural science. It also offers information regarding language and communication, culture and society, psychochemistry and statistics. Contains abstracts from journal articles, but also books and book chapters.

The PTSDpubs Database is an electronic index to the worldwide literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health consequences of exposure to traumatic events.
The database is produced by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for PTSD.

PubMed provides free access to the MEDLINE database, PreMEDLINE (PubMed in process) and links to molecular biology and genetic databases. Contains records from 1950 onwards.
Know more about searching and other options in PubMed? Go to the PubMed LibGuide.

PubPsych is a free information retrieval system for psychological resources (meta search). It offers a comprehensive selection of resources from a growing number of international databases with a European focus, covering the needs of academic and professional psychologists. PubPsych also includes datasets and offers, where available, full-text linking, links to additional information and link resolving.

RefWorks is a web-based bibliographic management service. It allows users to create personal citation databases by importing references from text files or online databases. RefWorks is similar in function to software products such as EndNote, Reference Manager, and ProCite. It differs in that personal databases are stored on the RefWorks server and can be accessed through the University Library institutional account from wherever the user happens to be.
For your first visit, you will have to create an account name and password. Once you have created an account, use Refworks from anywhere.
More information, e.g. directions on importing data per database, tutorials, and frequently asked questions.

SCI is part of Web of Science.
Web of Science searches the Science Citation Index (1899-...), Social Sciences Citation Index (1898-...), and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-...) together.
To search SCI only, go to MORE SETTINGS below on the starting page and make sure only SCI is selected.

For more information, see Web of Science.

Scopus is both a bibliographic database and a citation index in all fields of sciences. Over 21,000 scientific journals are indexed, and since 2013 books and book chapters are included; where possible journals are indexed from the very first volume onwards. In the search results you can filter by document type. Patents will be presented separately.
Citation information is based on references in documents published from 1996 onwards.
Mekentosj Papers account ID is 21878.
Scopus does not support Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) or lower. Use IE 9 or higher, Firefox or Chrome.
Find out more about searching and other options in Scopus? Check the Scopus LibGuide.

Thieme MedOne Education: a collection of medical and biomedical color atlases and textbooks

TNM Online is an indispensable tool for all oncologists and other professionals who use the TNM classification system in the diagnosis, staging, treatment and prognosis of patients with cancer. This resource offers essential, regularly updated information from core publications in the field.

TRIP (=Turning Research Into Practice) PRO is a search engine for evidence-based sources. These sources are reviews from MEDLINE, guidelines, query answering services, medical images, video, e-textbooks, patient information leaflets etc.

UpToDate provides instant access to current clinical information and recommendations on patient care and treatment by continuous reviewing of 290 journals.

The Utrecht University Repository (formerly Igitur Archive), the Utrecht University digital scientific archive, contains documents produced by scientists at Utrecht University: PhD theses, articles, reports, monographs, etc.
Utrecht University Repository is visible via the Dutch national portal, NARCIS.
The majority of the documents are available in full text and are freely accessible. Documents from before 2006 are often available in printed form and can be found via the catalogue.

Web of Science is a bibliography as well as a citation index. It offers a combined access to three citation indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI) (1899-...), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) (1898-...), and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) (1975-...), including Conference Proceedings Citation Index. Via Citation Databases below on the starting page, you can select one of these databases.
Weekly updates. Access via ISI Web of Knowledge.
More information.

The free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Wikipedia is written collaboratively by volunteers from all around the world.
When you consult a Wikipedia in the language most closely related to your subject, you will get most information.
Find out more? Check the Wikipedia LibGuide.