The most frequently-used databases
CINAHL Ultimate® (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health) is the new definitive research tool for nursing and allied health professionals. In addition to the indexing and non-journal content such as Quick Lessons, Evidence-Based Care Sheets, & Continuing Education Modules, it offers more full-text access to top nursing and allied health journals and more international journal coverage than any other CINAHL database.
CINAHL Ultimate provides access to 1,815 active full-text journals and covers over 50 nursing specialties, as well as access to a host of Nursing Instructional Videos. CINAHL Ultimate instructional videos help nursing students and nurses learn about specific techniques and enhance their knowledge of procedures and best practices for care. The collection provides 138 videos covering topics including newborn and NICU care, caring for terminally ill patients, pre-and post-op care of orthopaedic patients, cultural awareness and more.
Biomedical and pharmacological database, providing the most up-to-date information about medical and drug-related subjects. (IReL Resource)
EMBASE is a medical and pharmaceutical resource. It is an essential resource to search when writing a systematic review, scoping review, thesis, or journal article for publication. The Advanced Search function allows you to search by keywords and subject headings (called Emtree). EMBASE contains Medline content within it, so if you have already searched Medline, you can exclude that content from your results list by adding this code to the end of your search string: NOT [medline]/lim. Alternatively, you can click on the Sources filter on the results page, and click on the EMBASE portion of the venn diagram and click Apply.
The library provides 1:1 tutorials on searching EMBASE, which can be booked on our Clinical Query Service Online Form.
More information on using EMBASE is provided in the Library Bitesize instruction video on the Library Moodle page.
Europe PMC provides comprehensive access to life sciences literature from trusted sources. It provides free access to 45.9 million abstracts and 10.6 million full text articles, including research articles, preprints, micropublications, books, reviews, and protocols. Europe PMC is hosted by EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI). Europe PMC is partnered with PubMed Central (PMC), and endorsed and supported by a group of international science funders as their repository of choice.
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PubMed Central® (PMC) is a 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). Available to the public online since 2000, PMC was developed by and is maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at NLM.
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The following databases are newly acquired or being evaluated for a future subscription.
TripPro is a comprehensive medical database that delivers evidence-based, full-text clinical information, including systematic reviews, evidence-based synopses, and clinical guidelines. The database allows you to quickly find high-quality evidence to support your studies and research, including research articles, randomized controlled trials, and regulatory guidelines. This trial is from the 7th of April - 30th of May 2025. Please email any feedback or comments to library@rcsi.ie.
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