Databases

Listed below are commonly used veterinary medicine 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 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. 

Databases: Veterinary Medicine Literature

Agricola: Covers every major agricultural subject, including agricultural engineering and marketing, animal breeding, entomology, environmental pollution, farm management, foods and feeds, pesticides, rural sociology, veterinary medicine, and water resources.

Animal Health and Production Compendium: The Animal Health and Production Compendium is a mixed multi-media reference tool, focusing on all aspects of animal health and production, including diseases, nutrition, husbandry, and breeding. Includes modules in poultry, pigs, and small and large ruminants, with text, pictures, graphs, maps, diagnostic aids, etc.

Biological Abstracts: Comprehensive coverage of the life sciences from 1926 to the present. Covers the following fields: botany, microbiology, pharmacology, biochemistry, evolutionary ecology, kinesiology, neurology, and toxicology.

Biological & Agricultural Index Plus: Provides information from groundwater pollution to genetic engineering and covers the entire range of sciences related to biology and agriculture.

BSAVA Library: A comprehensive digital resource for small animal clinical practice. Includes the BSAVA manuals, procedures and poisons guides, small animal formulary, conference proceedings, current and back issues of Companion magazine, and client resources.

CAB Abstracts: CAB covers the subject of agriculture in the broadest sense. It includes: agronomy, biotechnology, crop protection, dairy science, economics, environmental degradation and remediation, forestry, genetics, herbicides, irrigation, leisure, recreation and tourism, microbiology, nutrition, parasitology, rural development, and veterinary medicine.

CAB Reviews: Contains articles in the areas of agricultural biotechnology, animal production, animal breeding, biological control, crop production, forestry, grasslands, human and animal nutrition, post-harvest, soils, and veterinary science.

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

Plumb's Veterinary Drugs: Digital resource for accessing up-to-date veterinary drug information. Searchable by drug name, class name, or alias. Offers continual drug updates and alerts on new drugs.

PubMed: One of the most popular databases to find journal articles in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences.

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.

VetMed Resource: A comprehensive source of information on all aspects of veterinary medicine, including diseases and pathogens of animals.

Zoological Record: Contains bibliographic references covering all aspects of zoology. Includes information from journals, books, newsletter, and conference proceedings.