Explore Databases on our new A-Z Resources page
Academic and clinical articles are published in thousands of journals worldwide. They are the main resource for healthcare research and can be easily searched using the databases on the A-Z page.
All databases marked with a blue lock icon are available on or off campus with your RCSI network password.
We recommend you use Chrome or Firefox browsers with Web of Science and ClinicalKey
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.
ERIC indexes hundreds of journals in education and the social sciences and also cover education-related materials from scholarly organizations, professional associations, research centers and policy organizations.
Impact factors for 5,900 + biomedical and science journals, measuring the frequency with which an average article from a journal is cited in a particular year. (IReL Resource)
Medline: A comprehensive source for medical and biomedical sciences.
The Medline database is generally recognized as the premier source for bibliographic and abstract coverage of biomedical literature. Widely used by students, researchers, and clinicians, the data from the US National Library of Medicine (NLM) is available in various versions. Medline records appear in many databases but RCSI Library offers three versions: via PubMed, Ovid, and Ebsco. PubMed is the NLM version and it is globally available and free to all. Each version enables optimum searching and results but access, features and interfaces differ.
MEDLINE (PubMed) is a comprehensive source for medical and biomedical sciences.
The Medline database is generally recognized as the premier source for bibliographic and abstract coverage of biomedical literature. Medline is the largest subset of PubMed. Widely used by students, researchers and clinicians, the data from the US National Library of Medicine (NLM) is available in various versions. Medline records appear in many databases but RCSI Library offers three versions: via PubMed, Ovid and Ebsco. PubMed is the NLM version and it is globally available and free to all. Each version enables optimum searching and results but access, features and interfaces differ. PubMed is the US National Library of Medicine research level version of MEDLINE indexing over 20 million medical and healthcare articles.
For more information, please access our library guide: Finding Information
PubMed features:
PubMed – Medicine; includes Nursing, Pharmacy, Psychology and other related topics.
PubMed is a large medical database produced by the National Library of Medicine in the US. It contains over 37 million records and abstracts, including all those from Medline and PubMed Central (PMC). Links to full text are shown, some will be open to all and some are dependent on publisher access. You can use your own keywords, as well as the MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) thesaurus to search for your topic. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher websites.
For more information on how to search PubMed, save and export material from your searches, please view the Library Bitesize instruction video through the Library Moodle page.
Browse, discover, and keep up-to-date with e-journals via the Library's new platform BrowZine. Find out more about BrowZine, its features, and how to download the app onto your phone on the Library Blog.
On or Off-campus
The portal connection tells the journal site that you are an authorized user, whether on or off campus. You may be asked for your RCSI Network username and password before connection. For any issues with your RCSI Network username or password see Printing and IT.
Collections of full-text e-journals
These packages are useful for quick searching and browsing but are limited to specific selections of journals only - for comprehensive searches, use databases like MEDLINE and CINAHL first.
To search all journal collections RCSI Library subscribes to, please search Journal Collections at A-Z Resources.
This resource provides full text access to over 1,600 journals in business, chemistry, computer science, engineering, law, life sciences, mathematic, physics, psychology and social sciences published by John Wiley & Sons. (IReL Resource)
Document Supply
We are happy to obtain articles or books which we don't stock in our collections from elsewhere. For more information, see our Document Supply page or email docsupply@rcsi.ie
There are also many electronic books in all subjects at all levels: clinical textbooks, atlases, pharmacopeia, study guides.
Search or browse our e-book collections by going to Primo VE.
All e-books are available 24/7 on or off campus with your RCSI network username and password. To view some of our eBook Collections please see below of search eBook Collections in the A-Z Resources.
At present use Chrome or Firefox browsers with ClinicalKey.
AccessMedicine is a search platform for internal medicine resources from McGraw Hill containing 90+ e-textbooks, a diagnostic tool, drug information, cases, images and videos.
RCSI Library has a small collection of visual resources.