Primary Veterinary Medicine Databases & Article Indexes

OVID Multi-Database Searching
This OVID interface allows users to search multiple databases simultaneously. Deduping allows one to remove duplicates from the resulting search before viewing, saving, or printing the set....   [more]

Primary Veterinary Medicine Databases & Article Indexes

AGRICOLA
The topics covered in this USDA database include: agriculture, agronomy, animal science, biology, biotechnology, botany, breeding, chemistry, conservation, crop management, dairy science, ecology, ent...   [more]
Holdings: 1979 to present. Updates monthly.
Supplemental URLs
    AGRICOLA Subject Category Codes

AGRICOLA - free
A bibliographic database of citations to the agricultural literature created by the National Agricultural Library and its cooperators. Records describe publications and resources encompassing all aspe...   [more]
Holdings: 1979 to the present. Updates daily.
Unrestricted Access

Best Bets for Vets
A simple, unbiased review of current best evidence on a very specific clinical topic. They are designed to be a quick and achievable method of incorporating evidence into clinical practice....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Bovine Medicine
- from Wiley Online Library
[more]
Holdings: 2015, Third edition.

CAB Abstracts
Formerly produced by Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, now Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International, this database comprises international coverage of veterinary medicine, agriculture, fo...   [more]
Holdings: 1910 to the present. Updated monthly.
Supplemental URLs
    CABICODES List
    CAB Thesaurus

Consultant - Vet Diagnostic Support
This diagnostic support system is used to suggest possible diagnoses or causes for clinical signs and symptoms and to provide a brief synopsis of the diagnosis/cause including: 1) a general descriptio...   [more]
Holdings: Current and retrospective
Unrestricted Access

Crop ecology [electronic resource] : productivity and management in agricultural systems
[more]
Holdings: 2011, 2nd ed.

Global Health
Also Known as: Global Health Archive
Global Health consists of more than 1.2 million record. Research content covering public health, tropical and communicable diseases, nutrition, helminthology, entomology and mycology. ...   [more]
Holdings: 1910-

MEDLINE (complete file)
The premier database for bibliographic coverage of biomedical literature. MEDLINE encompasses information from Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing Index, as well as ot...   [more]
Supplemental URLs
    Pre-MEDLINE
    MEDLINE (latest years)
    
    
    

MEDLINE (latest years)
The premier source for bibliographic coverage of biomedical literature. MEDLINE encompasses information from Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing Index, as well as othe...   [more]

MEDLINE In-Process and Other Non-Indexed Citations
Also Known as: Pre-Medline
Represents the National Library of Medicine's in-process database for MEDLINE. It provides basic information and abstracts before a record is indexed with MeSH heading(s) and added to MEDLINE. This d...   [more]

Plumb's Veterinary Drugs
Access requires special login. After authenticating with PennKey, required login credentials will display....   [more]

Primatelit Database
Also Known as: Primate Literature
The PrimateLit database provides bibliographic access to the scientific literature on nonhuman primates for the research and educational communities. Coverage of the database spans 1940 to present and...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

PubMed Plus (Penn Only)
Also Known as: PubMed Medline Pub Med
- from PubMed Central
PubMed is the public access version to Medline, the premier database for biomedical literature. PubMedPlus is an enhanced version with links to full-text journals that the Penn Library subscribes to....   [more]
Holdings: 1950 to the present. Updated daily.
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    PubMed Help
    PubMed Tutorial
    
    new Pubmed effective Spring 2020
    PubMed Plus for Handhelds

Scopus
Indexes most peer reviewed journals in science, technology, and medicine, and many in the social sciences, arts, and humanities. Scopus also includes a number of trade publications and conference pap...   [more]
Holdings: 1823-present, although most records are from 1996 or later.
Supplemental URLs
    Mobile Site
    Scopus Tutorials
    Scopus support center
    Scopus tutorials

VetSRev
A database of systematic reviews in veterinary medicine and science....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Web of Science
Also Known as: ISI Citation Indexes, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, SSCI, SCI, AHCI, ISI, WOK, Web of Knowledge
Indexes journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Allows for cited reference searching. Includes Science Citation Index, the Social Science Citation Index[more]
Holdings: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)--1945-present, Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)--1956-present, Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)--1975-present. Updated weekly.
Supplemental URLs
    Web of Science Tutorials
    Cited Reference Searching Tutorial

WILDPro
Provides information on the natural history, health and management of captive and free-ranging wild animals. This electronic tool includes encyclopedic links to topic modules and a library of externa...   [more]
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Important Veterinary Medicine Databases & Article Indexes

AGRIS
Also Known as: International Information System for the Agricultural Sciences and Technology
The Food and Agriculture Organization's bibliographic database for worldwide research publications in agriculture in all its aspects, including geography, history, education, legislation, and agricult...   [more]
Holdings: 1975-present.
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    Agrovoc subject thesaurus
    AGRIS subject category codes

Animal Genome Size Database
[more]
Unrestricted Access

Biosample Misidentified Cell Lines
In NIH's BioSample database containing descriptions of biological source materials used in experimental assays, browse or search the list of known misidentified cell lines maintained by the Internatio...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Birds of the World
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CAB Abstracts (complete)
Formerly produced by Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, now Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International, this database comprises international coverage of veterinary medicine, agriculture, fo...   [more]
Holdings: 1910-present.
Supplemental URLs
    CAB Thesaurus

Derwent Innovations Index
Search more than 11 million patent records from 40 worldwide patent-issuing authorities. These include the US Patent and Trademark Office, European Patent Office, PCT (WO) applications and the Japanes...   [more]
Supplemental URLs
    Derwent Classification System
    Derwent Manual Coding and Classification Lookup
    Derwent Patent Assignee Codes Lookup
    Kind Codes (application, examined, granted, etc.)
    International Patent Classification (IPC)

EMBASE
EMBASE provides current and comprehensive information on drugs and pharmacology, and all other aspects of human medicine and related disciplines. The database covers over 2,000 biomedical titles not...   [more]
Holdings: Embase, the Excerpta Medica database from Elsevier, 1974 to present. Embase Classic (Excerpta Medica Abstract Journals backfile), 1947-1973. Medline, from the U.S. National Library of Medicine inclu
Supplemental URLs
    Tutorial Videos
    Tutorial Guides

GenderMed
Database with enhanced descriptions of selected PubMed articles analysing sex and gender differences, including strictly biological differences (sex-specific analyses) and psychosocial, economical and...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

HABRI Central
A joint effort of Purdue University's College of Veterinary Medicine and University Libraries, HABRI Central provides a database of references, a full-text repository, community-driven discussion area...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL)
US government-sponsored database of policy strategy-related documents on homeland security. Topics covered include: borders and immigration, emergency management, infrastructure protection, intelligen...   [more]

IndexCat
Also Known as: Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, 1880-1961
Bibliographic citations with subject indexing to the holdings of largest medical library in the late nineteenth century. Now useful for research in the history of medicine, history of science, and als...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Johns Hopkins ABX Guide
The Johns Hopkins POC-IT ABX Guide is intended for use by any clinician or other health care provider who engages patients with infectious diseases....   [more]

Micromedex
Thomson Reuters Micromedex indexes actionable information on drugs and medication safety, health care and disease management, patient education information, and toxicology. The information in this da...   [more]
Supplemental URLs
    Micromedex Mobile
    Micromedex Drug Information Application

OECD iLibrary
Also Known as: Source OECD, SourceOECD
Publications and statistical information from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) covering agriculture and food, education and skills, emerging economies and transition e...   [more]

Peerj and Peerj Computer Science Institutional Plan
The Penn Libraries have established an institutional membership with PeerJ, and will pay the cost of a basic membership for each Penn author (identified via their use of an email address in the @upenn...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

RefWorks - web-based bibliographic management tool
RefWorks allows users to create personal citation databases by importing references from online databases. RefWorks features also facilitate manuscript preparation, allowing for automatic formatting o...   [more]
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    new version of Refworks
    legacy version of Refworks

Toxnet
A collection of government databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals and related areas. Includes TOXLINE and [more]
Unrestricted Access

World Animal Health Information Database
Also Known as: WAHID
OIE's World Animal Health Information System (WAHIS), reports exceptional disease events notifications and follow-up reports. Annual reports provide further information on animal health, laboratory a...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Related Veterinary Medicine Databases & Article Indexes

Cochrane Library
Also Known as: The Cochrane Library
- from Wiley Online Library
The Cochrane Library consists of a regularly updated collection of evidence-based medicine databases. ...   [more]

History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Also Known as: HST , Wellcome Bibliography, History of Science, Technology and Medicine
ACCESS NOTE: 5 concurrent users

International bibliography on the history of science and technology from pre-history to the present, describing journal articles, conference proceedings, book...   [more]
Holdings: 1975 to the present. Updated annually.

Incites Journal Citation Reports (JCR)
Also Known as: ISI JCR
Journal Citation Reports provides journal comparison by accumulating and tabulating citation and article counts. It includes the JCR Science edition,and the JCR Social Sciences edition...   [more]

Proquest Dissertations and Theses Fulltext (formerly Dissertation Abstracts)
Also Known as: Digital Dissertations, Dissertation Abstracts, UMI, DAI, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (PQDT), Proquest Dissertations and Theses Fulltext
Indexing (since 1861) and abstracting (since 1980) for doctoral-level dissertations completed at North American universities. Page images or fulltext of all available dissertations - including Penn d...   [more]
Holdings: Indexing 1861-present, abstracts 1980-present, page-image or fulltext PDF for available dissertations dissertations from 1997 to the present.
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PsycINFO
The American Psychological Association's comprehensive indexing and abstracting service for the professional and scholarly literature in psychology and related fields. Coverage is worldwide. Sources a...   [more]
Holdings: 1887 to the present. Updated monthly.
Supplemental URLs
    PsycINFO Classification Categories and Codes (APA Online)
    PsycINFO Journal Coverage List (APA Online)

ScholarlyCommons: Repository
Also Known as: Scholarly Commons
ScholarlyCommons@Penn is a repository of the research and scholarly output of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, administered by the Penn Library....   [more]
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    Penn Dissertations in ScholarlyCommons@Penn
    FAQ re joining and submitting papers

SciFinder (Chemical Abstracts)
Also Known as: Chemical Abstracts
Chemical information: bibliographic, compound and reaction information. Accessed via a Mac or Windows client (SciFinder Scholar) which can be downloaded to any campus workstation. The database can on...   [more]
Holdings: 1907-present. Abstracts updated daily; compound registry and indexing updated weekly
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    SciFinder Scholar Resources from the CAS Learning Center