Basic Medical Sciences
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Electronic databases Electronic journals Internet resources Audio-visuals
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This page provides links to general sites relevant to the Basic Medical Sciences. For specific subjects go to following: Anatomy, Biochemistry, Pharmacology, Physiology.

Electronic databases

  • Academic Search Elite (EbscoHost) (available only from UWI-Mona Campus).
  • Centre for Caribbean Health Database of African-Caribbean Health Issues. - To increase the awareness of healthcare professionals and the community by facilitiating access to expertise. This computerised database allows
    their field of expertise. It encloses details of individuals, voluntary sector groups, local community projects and other organisations who have experience working specifically with the African-Caribbean population in the UK or who work with black ethnic minority groups or those who conduct health research in this area
  • First Search from OCLC (Access restricted to UWI Students and Staff). Provides access to more than 15 databases, including:

    BasicBIOSIS: Covers the basic core of life science journals. Includes popular and scholarly science journals.
    EconLit: Journals, books, and working papers on economics
    ERIC: Journal articles and reports on education topics
    GPO: U.S. government publications
    MEDLINE: All areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing
    MLA: Indexes books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies in literature, language and linguistics,
    WilsonSelectPlus: Full text articles in science, humanities, education and business
    WorldCat: OCLCcatalog of books, web resources, and other material worldwide

  • HighWire Press (Journals database) (Provides access to over 15 million articles from over 4,500 PubMed journals, including 839,086 free full text articles from 825 HighWire-hosted journals in the Biological, Physical, Medical and Social Sciences.
  • Medline /PubMed The National Library of Medicine's search service that provides access to over 10 million citations in Medline, PreMEDLINE, and other related databases, with links to participating online journals
  • ProQuest (Access restricted to UWI Students and Staff.) providing access to:
  • ABI/INFORM Global includes 1800 worldwide business periodicals for in-depth coverage of business and economic conditions, management techniques, theory, and practice of business, advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. Expanded international coverage. Fast access to information on 60,000 + companies with business and executive profiles. Now includes The Wall Street Journal

    Academic Research Library Covers a broad range of subjects including arts, business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's interests.

  • SwetsWise (Click on login via IP authentication)
  • Web of Science - Science Citation Index expanded with 5 years backfiles.

Internet resources

Academic Departments/Associations/Institutions etc

Liaison Librarian: Myrna Douglas
Email:myrna.douglas@uwimona.edu.jm