Guides: South Carolina Physician's Virtual Library: Welcome

Information Resources

MUSC Librarians have developed a page of free recommended resources. The South Carolina Physicians Virtual Library includes resources for clinical trials, journal article databases, evidence-based practice, patient education, ebooks, drug information, mobile device apps, dictionaries & directories, associations & organizations, and websites. If there are resources you feel should be added or removed, please contact me.

Most Popular resources

PubMed Central
Biomedical and life sciences database. Free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).

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As a result of the NIH Public Access Policy, NIH funded research papers must be available to the public for free through PubMed Central within 12 months of publication.

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Biomedical and life sciences journal articles. Abstracts, and some full-text articles, are free to the public.
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** To get full-text through "Find It @ MUSC": Scholar Settings -> Library Links -> Medical University of South Carolina.
** To import citations to EndNote/RefWorks: Scholar Settings -> Search Results -> EndNote/RefWorks.

Trip Medical Database - Free
Meta search engine that focuses on evidence based practice. Includes clinical guidelines, systematic reviews, journal articles, and more.