Physician Assistant Resources
Biological Abstracts - includes citations and some abstracts from over 6500 international life sciences journals. Fields covered include: biology, botany, zoology, biotechnology, and environmental studies. Coverage: 1990-present. Updated: Quarterly
Biomed Central - publishes peer-reviewed, primary research articles across all areas of biology and medicine, including access to over 60 specialist journals, news, editorials, and commentaries.
CINAHL nursing and health care topics. Coverage: Indexing from 1982-present. Abstracting from 1986-present. Updated: Monthly
Cochrane Library - EBM Reviews, Controlled Trials Register, and Database of Systematic Reviews
DARE: Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness - critical assessments of systematic reviews from a variety of medical journals.
EPI Info - Download the software and develop a questionnaire or form, customize the data entry process, and enter and analyze data.
ERIC - Citations and abstracts to articles in over 780 educational research and education-related journals and to ERIC (Educational Resource Information Center) Documents. Includes research findings, project and technical reports, speeches, unpublished manuscripts, curriculum guides, and books. Coverage: 1966-present. Updated: Monthly.
International Pharmaceutical Abstracts - comprehensive information is included for drug therapy, toxicity, and pharmacy practice as well as legislation, regulation, technology, utilizations, biopharmaceutics, information processing, education, economics, and ethics as related to pharmaceutical science and practice. Coverage: 1970 to present. Updated: Monthly.
ISI Web of Science - Contains three ISI Citation Databases (Sciences, Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences), which together index over 8,000 peer-reviewed journals. Provides bibliographic data, author abstracts, and cited references. Useful for searching databases for articles that cite a known author or work. Citation searching also allows you to use a given work as a subject term in order to identify more recent articles about the same topic. Coverage: 1974-present.
LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe - full text access to a wide range of news, country profiles, business and company information, legal research databases, and some general medical/health and reference sources.
Medline (OVID) - Produced by the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) and distributed by the vendor OVID. Covers 3,800 international journals in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems, and preclinical sciences. Primary source for technical medical information. Coverage: 1966-present. Updated: Monthly.
Medline (PubMed) - Produced by the National Library of Medicine's (NLM). Covers 3,800 international journals in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems, and preclinical sciences. Primary source for technical medical information. Coverage: 1966-present. Updated: Monthly.
Mental Measurements Yearbook - descriptions of nearly 1900 commercially published standardized educational, personality, vocational aptitude, and psychological tests. It provides authors, publishers, time requirements, score descriptions, intended populations, validity/reliability data, and critical reviews.
PsycInfo - abstracts from articles, books, book chapters, journals, dissertations, and other sources. Coverage: 1887-present. Updated: Monthly.
Advance for Physician Assistants: Online Edition This is a peer-reviewed journal.
Internet Journal of Academic Physician Assistants This is a peer-reviewed journal.
JAAPA Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants Published monthly.
Student Academy of the American Academy of Physician Assistants Site provides "clinical pearls" organized by specialty; "survival skills" a forum where PA students trade helpful information on making it in school; and "hyperlinks" to other medical organizations' web sites.
Association of Family Practice Physician Assistants Scholarship information is available.
Association of Neurosurgical Physician Assistants The Association of Neurosurgical Physician Assistants (ANSPA) was formed in 1990 and currently has over 250 members nationwide.
Association of Physician Assistants in Cardiovascular Surgery promotes the educational and professional interests of cardiothoracic and vascular Physician Assistants. The Association's primary objectives are to promote clinical academic excellence for its members and to enhance quality medical care to patients.
North Carolina Medical Society Membership in the North Carolina Medical Society (NCMS) makes you a part of a dynamic network of 11,000 medical students, residents, practicing physicians, retired physicians and physician assistants who represent organized medicine at its best. NCMS members enjoy powerful representation on legislative issues, managed care resources and consultation, and discounts on personal and professional products and services.
Society of Dermatology Physician Assistants Site created to promote the field of dermatology to physician assistants.
Society of Emergency Medicine Physician Assistants The Society of Emergency Medicine Physician Assistants (SEMPA) is the national organization representing the 5,000 physician assistants (PA) currently practicing emergency medicine.
Style Guides
Print (located in Carpenter Library)
American Medical Association Manual of Style WZ 345 M294 1998 Standards and conventions that most all medical publications follow. Located in the Reference section of the Library.
National Library of Medicine Recommended Formats for Bibliographic Citations WZ 345 P314n 1991 Provides assistance to authors in compiling references for their publications. Located at the Reference Desk.
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association WZ 345 A514p 2001 Guidelines from the American Psychological Association located in the Library’s Reference section.
Internet Style Guides
Columbia Guide to Online Style From Columbia University Press, this page includes the Elements of Citation, Documenting Sources in the Text, and Preparing the Bibliographic Material.
Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences This list from the Ohio Medical College Health Sciences Library contains links to Web sites which provide instructions to authors for over 3,000 journals in the health sciences. All links are to "primary sources," that is, to sites of publishers or organizations having editorial responsibilities for particular titles.
List of Serials Indexed for Online Users Available from the National Library of Medicine, this is an electronic version of the publication that provides complete bibliographic information on serials cited in Medline (PubMed). This is the standard for all biomedical journal abbreviations.
National Library of Medicine Recommended Formats for Bibliographic Citations - Internet Formats (PDF) - The site, from the National Library of Medicine, provides the user with the recommended bibliographic formats for a variety of Internet resources.
Web Extension to American Psychological Association Style Web Extensions to American Psychological Association Style (WEAPAS) is the proposed standard for referencing online documents in scientific publications.
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