Nursing

CINAHL Ultimate is the world’s most comprehensive source of full-text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 1,300 journals indexed in CINAHL. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index, with no embargo. CINAHL Ultimate is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing & allied health literature and supports nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers.

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Databases that focus on the effects of health care and evidence based medical practice.
NHS Economic Evaluation Database, Health Technology Assessments, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects, Cochrane Methodology Register

UpToDate is a clinical decision support resource that delivers evidence-based insights and recommendations authored and edited by world-known experts in their field. It’s designed to be clear, actionable, and apply to the patient at the point of care.

Registration required Click "sign in" and select the "Sign in with OpenAthens" option. This registers and signs you in using UMass Boston credentials. First-time users will see a "Complete Registration" page to fill out your name, specialty, etc. before you arrive at the database.

You will need a personal account.
1. Go to self-signup page to request an invitation. Be sure to use your @umb.edu email. 
2. This triggers an invitation to automatically be sent to your email. Be sure to accept the invitation.

A web-based software that streamlines literature and systematic reviews. It helps with the heavy lifting that comes with importing citations to facilitating the screening of abstracts and full text - populating risk of bias tables, extracting data, and exporting.

A comprehensive 3D atlas of the human body. You must create an account. Upon your first visit, click on the Sign Up link at the bottom. You can then create your account using your existing Google account or make a completely separate account. With that account, you also get access to the mobile app, and you can log into the database without having to go through the library link for 150 days. 

For tablet/mobile devices: download the app from the App Store or Google Play. Account creation is best done on a laptop/desktop initially to link to your UMass Boston access. Or while making sure you're signed out from the app, you can sign in with the account one time on a laptop/desktop to make that link. Afterward, use the mobile app for 150 days without needing to link it again.

The first time the web app launches, it can take a few minutes. If the wheel keeps spinning for more than 5 minutes, you may need to close out all your tabs and clear your browser’s cache, cookies, and history from all time.

Cochrane Clinical Answers (CCAs) provide a readable, digestible, clinically focused entry point to rigorous research from Cochrane systematic reviews. They are designed to be actionable and to inform decision making at the point of care. Each Cochrane Clinical Answer contains a clinical question, a short answer, and an opportunity to ‘drill down’ to the evidence from relevant Cochrane reviews. The evidence is displayed in a user friendly format, mixing narrative, numbers and graphics. The target audience for Cochrane Clinical Answers is healthcare practitioners and professionals, and other informed health care decision-makers.