Library Guides: Resources for Medical Students: Journal Articles

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Findit@MU Article Locator
Find articles with DOI, PubMed ID (PMID), journal title, and more.
Discover@MU
Search by article title for articles in MU Libraries' collections.
Google Scholar
If you can't find it via FindIt@MU, you might get lucky and find the fulltext in Google Scholar searching by article title.

PubMed
The largest biomedical database containing article references from MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE, OLDMEDLINE, plus some publisher-supplied and out of scope citations from certain general science and chemistry journals.
MEDLINE (Ovid)
An alternative to searching PubMed, Ovid MEDLINE offers an interface for advanced searching of the MEDLINE database.

Free account can be created for personalization.
Date Coverage: 1966-date.
Maximum Users: 44
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Tutorial: http://www.screencast.com/users/lottes/folders/Jing/media/a7a0252d-37e8-4b6e-8d59-29f60369ada3
Scopus
Scopus is an abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources, including journals, conference proceedings, trade publications, abstracts, and patent records. It is a multidisciplinary resource covering materials from the humanities, sciences and social sciences. Scopus allows you to locate the most highly cited items and the articles that cite them.

Date Coverage: 1970-present; selected access back to 1823

Maximum Users: Unlimited

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Search Guide: http://help.scopus.com

Tutorial: https://supporthub.scopus.com

Consensus
AI search of research papers (data source is Semantic Scholar); Filter by year, study type, study details, etc. Save searches. Export citations (RIS format)
Elicit AI
AI search of research papers (data source is Semantic Scholar); extracts details from paper abstracts into an organized table; save searches; extract details from PDFs
Keenious
Web-based and Word plug-in that analyzes the text in your document to recommend research for you. Sign in with your @umsystem.edu email address and password. (Data source is OpenAlex.)

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