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Databases

Listed below are commonly used clinical and biological literature databases. More can be found in the A-Z Database List.

When searching databases from off-campus remember to log in to your library account and, regardless of location, click on the Find Text @ MSU icon icon to see if MSU users have access to the full text content. Consider installing a browser extension like LibKey Nomad that directly links you to the full text of articles available through the MSU Libraries journal subscriptions.

If you want to search for a specific journal try using the A-Z Electronic Journal List to search for the journal's title and see if MSU users have access. If you cannot find the journal you are looking for in that list, search the Library Catalog using the "journal title" option from the drop down catalog menu.

Problems with access off campus? Contact the Reference and Discovery Services Unit. 

Clinical Databases

PubMed: The premier biomedical database. PubMed provides international coverage of English- and foreign-language journals in the areas of medicine, nursing, allied health, and the basic life sciences.

CINAHL Plus with Full Text: CINAHL (Cumulative Index for Nursing and Allied Health Literature) is the leading English-language nursing database. CINAHL provides indexing for over 3,000 nursing, allied health, biomedical, and consumer health journals.

Embase: A large European-based database with journal articles and other biomedical literature from an international perspective.

Biological Databases

Biological Abstracts: Comprehensive database of the life sciences journal literature from 1926 to the present. Coverage of over 4,200 journal titles from the fields of botany, microbiology, pharmacology, biochemistry, evolutionary ecology, kinesiology, neurology, and toxicology.

Web of Science: Broad coverage of many scientific domains and includes conference proceedings. One of the best tools to track citations, create citation report graphs, find your h-index number, and compare publication outputs over time.

Scopus Find citations for a broad range of scientific literature (including patents) and track, analyze, and visualize citations by document, author, zip code, or institution.