Using databases:
Web of Science
Cited Reference Searching: Why and How
"Cited Reference searching allows you to navigate forward, backward,
and through the journal literature to uncover information relevant to
your research." (Guide to Cited Reference searching 8/04 Thomson Co.)
Why to learn to do a Cited Reference search: An animal is in
the teaching hospital with an unusual disease or disorder. The
clinician hands you an article from his/her files on the disease or
disorder. The article is five years old. You wonder what has been
written about that disease/disorder since the article was published.
Cited Reference searching in Web of Science will quickly find any
articles that have cited the clinician's article.
Learn how to do a Cited Reference search in Web of Science: take the tutorial.
CONSULTANT, PubMed, VIN and CAB Abstracts
Access to the veterinary literature for clinics and beyond
The databases below index approximately the same 70+
veterinary journals. A brief guide comparing Consultant, PubMed and VIN is
available in pdf.
Is the easiest to search.
It covers 7,000 diseases of 8 species. Avian is the only exotic covered. Free on the web.
See Handbook of Evidence-Based Veterinary Medicine (SF748.C635) page
134-137 in the chapter Clinical Diagnostic Decision Support Systems for
a description of what CONSULTANT is and examples of how to use it.
Guide to CONSULTANT (.pdf)
Provides access to both human and veterinary medicine journals back to
1966, including a comprehensive site for consumer health (Medlineplus)
for clients, friends, and family.
Take the PubMed Tutorial in the blue
bar on the left and/or see the Help and FAQ pages.
From the UT Libraries' databases
page, type in PubMed. The benefit of getting to PubMed via the
databases page is that the FIND TEXT button will link you to the
full-text of the article, if available. PubMed is also free on the web
at pubmed.gov.
Guide to PubMed for veterinarians
A list of veterinary resources compiled by the National Library of Medicine.
PubMed for PDAs
Provides access to the veterinary literature via the Search function
plus: message boards, conference proceedings, Plumb’s, CE, Veterinary
Partner for clients, and more. VIN has about 42,000 members of
which 10,000 are students.
VIN is free to veterinary students of sponsored universities who
provide their student email address (e.g., myname@school.edu). To register, go to the Veterinary Academia page and click Vet Students to read more about VIN for students, then click on "How can I become a member".
Be sure to watch the VIN student Video.
See especially: Searching on VIN
How to do a Basic Search
How to Fine Tune Your Search
FIND TEXT
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Access Pubmed, CAB, Web of Science and Google Scholar
through the UT Library’s database page .
The benefit of going through the database menu is that the FIND TEXT button will link you to the full-text of
the article, if available. You can search the free databases without going
through the library website, but you won’t necessarily have access to our journal
subscriptions.
