E-Resources: Online Databases

The ACM Digital Library (DL) is the most comprehensive collection of full-text articles and bibliographic records in existence today covering the fields of computing and information technology. The full-text database includes the complete collection of ACM's publications, including journals, conference proceedings, magazines, newsletters, and multimedia titles.

ASCE Journals is the most extensive resource for civil engineering research and application-oriented content. UiTM's subscription to ASCE Journals (33 titles) only.

Topics covered : Coastal & Ocean Engineering, Construction, Environmental, Geo-technical, Energy, Computing in Civil Engineering, Materials, Management, Transportation, Water Resources.

The BMJ (formerly the British Medical Journal) is an international peer reviewed medical journal and a fully online first publication. The BMJ is published by BMJ (BMJ Publishing Group Ltd), a wholly owned subsidiary of the British Medical Association. The BMA grants editorial freedom to the editor of The BMJ (currently Fiona Godlee).The website is updated daily with original articles, podcasts, videos, and blogs and organised into four main content streams—research, education, news and views, and campaigns. In addition, the site is fully searchable, with an archive back to 1840 and numerous topic collections on clinical and non-clinical subjects. Articles of relevance to specific countries and regions are grouped together on country portals.

The collection of journals available in ClinicalKey currently includes more than 500 journals such as Journal of the American College of Cardiology and The Lancet. Besides that, ClinicalKey has more than 20 million MEDLINE abstracts.

Overall, ClinicalKey includes :-

• Medical and Surgical Journals (over 500)
• Selected third-party journals and content sources
• Medical and Surgical Reference Books (over 1000)
• ALL medical and surgical clinics of North America
• All First Consult point-of-care clinical monographs
• ALL Procedures Consult content and associated videos
• ALL Clinical Pharmacology Drug Monographs from Gold Standard
• Medical and Surgical Video (over 13,000)
• Millions of medical and surgical images
• Over 2,000 Practice Guidelines
• Elsevier and third-party published patient education handouts in both English and Spanish where available

Starting 2018, Datastream is now accessible through Thomson Reuters Eikon

DynaMed™  is a clinical reference tool created by physicians for physicians and other health care professionals for use primarily at the point-of-care. With clinically-organized summaries for more than 3,200 topics, DynaMed is the only evidence-based reference shown to answer most clinical questions during practice.
 

HeinOnline is the world’s largest image-based legal research collection and contains more than nine centuries of legal history.  All content is image-based in PDF format just as they appear in the original print copy thus preserving the authenticity of the hard copy in a digital environment. HeiOnline is Hein’s premier online research product with more than 60 million pages of legal history available in an online, fully-searchable, image-based format. In more than 3,500 locations in over 150 countries. HeinOnline bridges the gap in legal history by providing comprehensive coverage from inception of more than 1,400 law and law-related periodicals.

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This database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to education-related literature. ERIC provides coverage of journal articles, conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs.

Subject coverage

1. Adult, career and vocational education
2. Counseling
3. Elementary and early childhood education
4. Education management
5. Higher education
6. Junior colleges
7. Second-language learning
8. Special education
9. Teacher education
10. Tests, measurement and evaluation

This database provides indexing and abstracts for several hundred international music periodicals from over 20 countries, plus full text for more than 140 of the indexed journals. The database currently includes over 1.3 million records, the majority from the most recent ten years of publication. Some complete journal runs are included, with indexing back to 1874. Covers the full spectrum of subjects and all aspects of music, including music education, performance, ethnomusicology, musical theatre, theory, popular music forms and composition.

Coverage: 1874 - current

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Year 2017 and 2018

SAGE Research Methods is a research methods tool created to help researchers, faculty and students with their research projects. SAGE Research Methods links over 175,000 pages of SAGE’s renowned book, journal and reference content with truly advanced search and discovery tools. Researchers can explore methods concepts to help them design research projects, understand particular methods or identify a new method, conduct their research, and write up their findings. Since SAGE Research Methods focuses on methodology rather than disciplines, it can be used across the social sciences, health sciences, and more.

With SAGE Research Methods, researchers can explore their chosen method across the depth and breadth of content, expanding or refining their search as needed; read online, print, or email full-text content; utilize suggested related methods and links to related authors from SAGE Research Methods' robust library and unique features; and even share their own collections of content through Methods Lists. SAGE Research Methods contains content from over 720 books, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and handbooks, the entire “Little Green Book,” and "Little Blue Book” series, two Major Works collating a selection of journal articles, and specially commissioned videos. 
 

UpToDate® is committed to innovation and value so we continually make enhancements that help clinicians provide better patient care. Some of our key product features include:

Mobile Apps — With an individual subscription or UpToDate Anywhere, users can access UpToDate clinical decision support on the go from any mobile browser or our award-winning UpToDate Mobile Apps, available for most leading devices. Learn more

What’s New — the "What's New" feature provides clinicians with a summary of, in our editors' view, the most important new information added in recent weeks. Learn more

Practice Changing UpDates — This section highlights specific new recommendations and/or updates that we anticipate may change usual clinical practice. Learn more


Patient Education — UpToDate includes more than 1,500 corresponding patient information topics, plus more than 1,000 in universal Spanish. Clinicians can review this information with patients in the exam room, print out as handouts, or send via email. Learn more

Integrated Patient Education — UpToDate and Lexicomp® have collaborated to provide comprehensive, embedded, and integrated patient education solutions for EMRs and other healthcare applications. Learn more

Search Features — UpToDate streamlines search capabilities by enabling queries and navigation in multiple languages. Learn more

Graphics Search — This powerful search engine feature allows subscribers to search tens of thousands of pictures, charts, movies, illustrations and more – all without ever leaving UpToDate. Learn more

Medical Calculators — UpToDate includes calculators to help you quickly and accurately calculate many different medical measurements. Learn more

Feedback — Because some of the most important contributions to UpToDate come from our clinician subscribers, we’ve incorporated a feedback button that allows you to submit questions and comments to our editors. Learn more

Drugs & Drug Interactions — Clinicians can quickly check for possible drug-to-drug and drug-to-herb interactions with the UpToDate drug interactions program (in partnership with Lexicomp®). Learn more

Link to Full-Text Articles — We provide convenient links to full text of referenced articles (provided your institution subscribes to a service that allows this access). Learn more

Thomson Reuters Westlaw

Formerly known as Westlaw International

Thomson Reuters Westlaw is the industry's most preferred online legal research service year after year. With Westlaw, you can find the legal information you are looking for quickly and confidently so you can build the strongest argument possible. You need to know you are relying on accurate law - because your practice depends on it.
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