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Cochrane Library
A collection of 6 full text databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making: Database of Systematic Reviews, Central Register of Controlled Trials, Methodology Register, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects, Health Technology Assessment Database and NHS Economic Evaluation Database. Updated continuously. Search language: English.
Keywords: health care profession, health policy, medical research, medical science, medicine
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Consensus
Consensus is an AI-powered academic search engine. It searches across more than 200 million scientific papers and uses language models to help users understand and summarize peer-reviewed literature. For each query, Consensus first retrieves the most relevant academic articles, then processes the main findings and generates an AI-based summary of the conclusions. Update: ongoing. Language: any.
Keywords: arts, culture, education, humanities, legal science, literature, medical science, natural and applied sciences, religion
To access the platform, USI affiliates must create an account using their institutional email address.
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JSTOR
JSTOR provides access to the full text of over 12 million documents, including journal articles, books, images, and primary sources, from the earliest editions to the most recent ones. The access is subject to a varying "moving wall" for each publication, which is continuously updated. The scope of content covers a wide range of disciplines (75 subjects). Via the library, users havecan explore the entire digital archive: the 15 Arts & Sciences Collections (I-XV), Biological Sciences, the 4 Business Collections (I-IV), Ecology & Botany, Health & General Sciences, Language & Literature, Life Sciences, Lives of Literature, Mathematics & Statistics, Museum Collection, Sustainability.
Keywords: arts, culture, education, humanities, legal science, literature, medical science, natural and applied sciences, religion
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MEDLINE (Ovid)
MEDLINE is produced by the National Library of Medicine and covers the international literature on biomedicine, including the allied health fields and the biological and physical sciences, humanities, and information science as they relate to medicine and health care. The Ovid platform provides access to over 23 million of the latest bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 5,600 journals published world-wide, starting from 1946. Over 60 journals are available full text. The access to the “Medline ALL” version includes the “Indexed MEDLINE” segment, as well as the “In-Process & Other Non-Indexed Citations”, the citations added to PubMed daily and the “Epub Ahead of Print” segments. Updated: daily. Search language: English.
Keywords: biology, health care profession, health policy, medical research, medical science, pharmacology
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MEDLINE Ultimate (Ebsco)
Created by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, this database, a primary component of Pubmed, contains over 31 million records from more than 5000 journals in 40 languages, published from 1966 to the present. Medline's area of specialisation is biomedicine and health sciences, including behavioural science, biology, chemistry and bioengineering, for practitioners, researchers and educators working in the clinical and public health sectors.
The ‘Ultimate’ version includes access to over 2,400 peer-reviewed journals in full-text (half of which are embargo-free). Continuously updated.Keywords: biology, health care profession, health policy, medical research, medical science, pharmacology
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ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect provides access to the Elsevier publications, that include books, book series, journals, reference works, images. The university library subscribes to the full text of journals in the Economics and the Social Sciences collections and to the back files of the Business, Management and Accounting, Economics, Econometrics and Finance collections. Updated continuously. Search language: English.
Keywords: humanities, medical science, natural and applied sciences
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Scopus
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature in sciences, technology, medicine as well as social sciences and arts and humanities. The database is continuously updated and contains records from over 36000 journal titles, including 21950 peer-reviewed journals and over 3600 full open access journals. Scopus indexes 280 trade publications, more than 560 book series, 150000 books, over 8 million conference papers and 39 million patent records from five patent offices.
Keywords: arts, humanities, medical science, social sciences, technology
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Springer LINK
Springer LINK provides access to the Springer publications, that include books, book series, journals, protocols and reference works. The university library subscribes to the full text of the journals starting from 1997 and to the abstracts starting from 1994. Updated continuously. Search language: English, German.
Keywords: humanities, medical science, natural and applied sciences
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Web of Science
Integrated platform providing access to the Web of Science bibliographic databases: Science Citation Index Expanded (starting from 1900), Social Science Citation Index (starting from 1956), Arts & Humanities Citation Index (starting from 1975). Web of Knowledge offers other essential search tools such as the Journal Citation Reports and ResearcherID.com, that provide authors’ curricula and publications. Updated weekly. Search language: English.
Keywords: humanities, medical science, natural and applied sciences
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Wiley Online Library
Wiley Online Library provides access to the Wiley publications, that include books, book series, journals, reference works. The university library subscribes to the full text of about 600 scientific journals in the field of the social sciences. Updated continuously. Search language: English.
Keywords: humanities, medical science, natural and applied sciences, social sciences