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CINAHL
CINAHL, the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, is a comprehensive resource for nurses and allied health professionals. Learn more about using CINAHL, including how to find evidence-based articles and other basic and advanced searching techniques.

PubMed
PubMed provides free access to MEDLINE, the National Library of Medicine's database of citations and abstracts in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems, and preclinical sciences. During the class, you will set up and configure a My NCBI account and learn how to use your My NCBI account to save your search strategies, have those strategies automatically run with only new results sent to your email, and how you can save collections of references for future use. You will also get a refresher on medical subject headings and the use of limits.

QUOSA
QUOSA “streamlines and turbo-charges literature retrieving, organizing, searching and sharing.” In the training sessions, you will learn to retrieve all or selected full-text from your PubMed or Scopus search with one click, organize article collections, search across the full-text of the articles you retrieve, and how to share everything with colleagues, sync with RefWorks, and integrate with any electronic text.

RefWorks
Get an introduction to this web-based bibliography and database manager. Learn how to use RefWorks to create personal databases of imported references from online databases and how to store, retrieve, and format them for publication. If you spend more than an hour formatting your references for your paper's bibliography then you are working way too hard. We'll show you how citing within your paper and creating your paper's bibliography can take only minutes.

SciVal Experts
SciVal Experts is a powerful tool that allows researchers to pinpoint UM biomedical faculty by their specialty area. Instead of searching multiple department web pages for faculty information, users utilize SciVal Experts as a one-stop resource to locate potential multidisciplinary team members, collaborators, or mentors at the University of Miami. SciVal Experts draws upon UM faculty publications from PubMed (the past 20 years) and NIH-funded research projects from NIH RePORTER to automatically create and update dynamic faculty profiles.

Scopus
The largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources, Scopus has smart tools to track, analyze, and visualize research. Allowing the opposite of the typical backtracking through older and older bibliographies, Scopus citation analysis helps you to find the newest research which has sprung from the important references you have already identified. It's also a great tool for helping you see how your body of work has impacted the larger community by seeing who has cited your publications.