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Search engines

Google Scholar This link opens in a new window Hakukone, joka hakee tietoa erityisesti tieteellisistä, Internetissä olevista dokumenteista. Scholarissa esiintyy satunnaisesti yliopistosta riippumatonta ongelmaa. Mikäli Scholar antaa virheilmoituksen, lue täältä ohjeet ongelman kiertokeinoon: https://libguides.tuni.fi/e-aineisto-opas/google-scholar Google Scholar provides a simple way to search for scholarly literature. There is an intermittent problem with Google Scholar giving an error message. If Scholar is not working check out how to circumvent the problem: https://libguides.tuni.fi/e-resource-guide/google-scholar
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Mednar Mednar is a free, medically-focused deep web search engine that uses Explorit Everywhere!, an advanced search technology by Deep Web Technologies. As an alternative to Google, Mednar accelerates your research with a search of authoritative public and deep web resources, returning the most relevant results to one easily navigable page. Unlike Google, a Mednar search occurs in real-time, retrieving relevant medical information as if you were going to each individual website yourself.

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Core databases

MEDLINE is the U.S. National Library of Medicine® (NLM) premier bibliographic database with a concentration on biomedicine. Access Medline via Ovid or PubMed.

Medline (Ovid) This link opens in a new window Lääke- ja terveystieteiden sekä lähialojen tärkein kansainvälinen tietokanta. Tietokannan tuottajana on National Library of Medicine. Medline is widely recognized as the premier source for bibliographic and abstract coverage of biomedical literature. The database is produced by National Library of Medicine.
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Medline (PubMed) This link opens in a new window Lääke- ja terveystieteiden sekä lähialojen keskeinen kansainvälinen tietokanta. Tietokannan tuottajana on National Library of Medicine. Medline is widely recognized as the premier source for bibliographic and abstract coverage of biomedical literature. The database is produced by National Library of Medicine.
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PubMed Online Training - NLM video tutorials National Library of Medicinen tekemät PubMed-opetusvideot ovat katsottavissa tämän linkin takana.
PubMed User Guide National Library of Medicinen opas PubMedin käyttöön.
A roadmap for searching literature in PubMed (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) In this LibGuide you will to learn how to build and conduct a systematic search in PubMed. The following steps will be covered: Research question: formulate your research question and divide it into elements Logbook: develop and document your search strategy Collecting MeSH terms: find controlled search terms in PubMed Collecting free-text terms: collect terms and search in the title and abstract [tiab] of the record Truncation and Phrase searching: learn to use two search techniques Combining: use Boolean operators Filters: apply clinical queries and other search filters to refine your results Evaluating: evaluate your search results and modify your search strategy if necessary References: manage references and insert citations into a document Other resources: use other relevant literature databases to find more references
Training course: Using PubMed in Evidence-Based Practice When conducting research, evidence-based practice is a method for framing clinical questions that will help yield optimal search results. PubMed.gov is a free research tool from the National Library of Medicine®. This course will show you how to use evidence-based practice when searching clinical questions using PubMed®
Medical Subject Headings MeSH Help: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/mbinfo.html

The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. The most important databases in the Library are Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR) that contains information on systematic reviews undertaken by the Cochrane Collaboration, and Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) that contains information on clinical trials, harvested from a variety of sources.

Cochrane Library (Terveysportti) This link opens in a new window Cochrane-kirjasto sisältää kolme säännöllisesti päivitettävää tietokantaa, mukaan lukien Cochrane-verkoston tuottamat järjestelmälliset katsaukset. Tietokannat tarjoavat korkeatasoista ja luotettavaa näyttöön perustuvaa tietoa terveydenhuollon päätöksentekijöille. Huomioithan, että Advanced search toimii etäkäytössä ainoastaan mentäessä palveluun Terveysportin kautta. Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain different types of evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. Please note that when off-campus, advanced search can be used by going first to Terveysportti and from there to Cochrane Library.
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Epistemonikos contains information on published systematic reviews. The contents of the database is harvested from a variety of sources, including MEDLINE and Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.

ClinicalTrials.gov ClinicalTrials.gov on kansainvälinen käynnissä olevien kliinisten kokeitten rekisteri.
PROSPERO PROSPERO on kansainvälinen käynnissä olevien systemaattisten katsausten rekisteri.
Research Registry The Research Registry is a one-stop shop for registering all types of research studies, from ‘first in man’ case reports to observational/interventional studies to systematic reviews and meta-analyses. The process is easy, simple and take less than five minutes.
WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform WHO ICTRP on kansainvälinen, käynnissä olevien kliinisten kokeitten metarekisteri. Pystyt yhdellä haulla etsimään tietoja usean eri maan rekisteristä.

Current Care guidelines Finnish clinical guidelines.
ECRI Guidelines Trust ECRI Guidelines Trust sisältää kansainvälisiä hoitosuosituksia. Käyttö edellyttää maksuttoman käyttäjätilin luomista. ECRI Guidelines Trust™ is a publicly available web-based repository of objective, evidence-based clinical practice guideline content. Its purpose is to provide physicians, nurses, other clinical specialties, and members of the healthcare community with up-to-date clinical practices to advance safe and effective patient care. This centralized repository includes evidence-based guidance developed by nationally and internationally recognized medical organizations and medical specialty societies.
Nationella riktlinjer Swedish clinical guidelines
NICE guidance Guidelines provided by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in the UK.
Nursing Research Foundation (Hotus) Finnish nursing guidelines

Databases in related fields

Interested in health economics? In addition to Medline, Cinahl, PsycInfo and social science databases, take a look at these databases with a focus in economics and health economics.

Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (CEA) Registry The CEA Registry is a comprehensive database of 10,002 cost-utility analyses on a wide variety of diseases and treatments published from 1976 to 2020.
Heoro Database of studies with a focus on burden of illness.
NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED) NHS EED contains over 17,000 economic evaluations of health and social care interventions; the database ceased updating in 2015 and it is advisable to search major bibliographic databases (e.g. MEDLINE) for more recent economic evaluations.
ScHARRHUD ScHARRHUD is a free, searchable web-based resource. The database holds bibliographic details of studies reporting health state utility values (HSUVs). In addition ScHARRHUD is searchable by the names of health state valuation instruments used in each study. In providing this level of indexing, ScHARRHUD aims to make the retrieval of health utilities evidence both more efficient and effective. Whilst the focus of ScHARRHUD is on generic, preference-based measures, such as the EQ-5D, the database extracts and indexes the names of all instruments used in studies.
Health Evidence A database of 7,595 quality-rated reviews on the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of public health interventions, including cost data. Provided by McMaster University.
Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Database The HTA Database contains reports of health technology assessments, published by members of The International Network of Agencies for Health Technology Assessment (INAHTA). HTA reports often contain an economic evaluation, and they are worth taking a look.
Research Papers in Economics (RePEC) RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) is a collaborative effort of hundreds of volunteers in 102 countries to enhance the dissemination of research in Economics and related sciences. The heart of the project is a decentralized bibliographic database of working papers, journal articles, books, books chapters and software components. RePEc is accessible via several search engines; IDEAS and EconPapers provide access to the whole RePEc database.

EconLit with Full Text (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window EconLit with Full Text sisältää yli 670 taloustieteen keskeistä lehteä kokoteksteinä sekä 15 taloustieteen kirjaa. Tietokanta kattaa laajasti taloustieteen osa-alueet ja aineistoa löytyy muun muassa pääomamarkkinoista, ekonometriasta, ympäristötaloustieteestä ja työn taloustieteestä. EconLit with Full Text offers complete coverage of the economics field. The database includes more than 670 full-text journals and 15 full-text books related to the subjects such as capital markets, econometrics, environmental economics and labor economics.
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Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window Viitteitä ja tiivistelmiä terveyden, sosiaalityön, psykologian, sosiologian, talouden, politiikan rotusyrjinnän ja koulutuksen aloilta. The Reference database covers health, social services, economics, politics, race relations and education.

Social Care Online Social Care Online is the UK's largest online database of information on all aspects of social work and social care. It includes legislation, government documents, practice and guidance, systematic reviews, research briefings, UK grey (informally-published) literature, reports, and journal articles. The database is updated daily and contains over 160,000 records from the 1980s onwards.

Social Science Database (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window Kattaa yhteiskuntatieteiden aihealueita, esim. sosiologiaa, sosiaalityötä, antropologiaa, poitiikan tutkimusta. Tietokanta sisältää pääosin kokotekstiartikkeleita yli 1000 lehdestä Covers core disciplines across the social sciences including sociology, social work, anthropology, politics and other areas. The database includes over 1000 titles.
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Social Services Abstracts (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window Sisältää viitteitä sosiaalityön ja sosiaalipalveluiden alalta. Kattaa myös mm. sosiaalihuollon ja sosiaalipolitiikan. Social Services Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas

Social Systems Evidence A continuously updated repository of syntheses of research evidence about the programs, services and products available in a broad range of government sectors and program areas (e.g., climate action, community and social services, economic development and growth, education, environmental conservation, education, housing and transportation) as well as the governance, financial and delivery arrangements within which these programs, services and products are provided, and the implementation strategies that can help to ensure that these programs, services and products get to those who need them.
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Health Systems Evidence the world’s most comprehensive, continuously updated repository of systematic reviews and economic evaluations about governance, financial and delivery arrangements within health systems, and about implementation strategies that can support change in health systems. Provided by McMaster University.

Sociological Abstracts (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window Sosiologian, sosiaalipolitiikan ja muiden yhteiskuntatieteiden kansainvälinen viitetietokanta. Sisältää lehtiartikkeliviitteiden lisäksi viitteitä konferenssijulkaisuihin Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.

CINAHL Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window Hoitotieteen ja hoitotyön sekä lähialojen kansainvälinen kokotekstitietokanta, yli 1300 lehden artikkelit kokotekstinä. CINAHL®Complete is source of full-text for nursing & allied health journals, provides full text for more than 1,300 journals indexed in CINAHL. CINAHL covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines.
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Healthcare Administration Database (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window Tiedonlähteitä (lähinnä lehtiartikkeleita, väitöskirjoja ja tutkielmia) terveydenhuollon hallinnon aihealueilta. A collection of reliable and relevant resources in the field of health administration, including journals and dissertations. Covers information on a wide range of topics, including hospitals, insurance, law, statistics, business management, personnel management, ethics, health economics, and public health administration.
JBI Complete (Ovid) This link opens in a new window JBI Complete -palvelua käytetään näyttöön perustuvan tiedon hakemiseen, arviointiin ja soveltamiseen terveydenhoitoalalle. Palvelu on suunniteltu tukemaan hoitokäytäntöjä ja kliinistä päätöksentekoprosessia. JBI Complete is used to retrieve, evaluate and apply evidence-based information to healthcare. The service is designed to support treatment practices and clinical decision-making process. PACES- ja SUMARI-palveluihin on luotava käyttäjätili. You must log in to use SUMARI and PACES.
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LILACS This link opens in a new window LILACS sisältää terveydenalan julkaisuja Latinalaisesta Amerikasta ja Karibian alueelta. LILACSia ylläpitää ja päivittää verkosto, joka koostuu yli 600 koulutus-, hallinto- ja terveysalan tutkimuslaitoksesta. LILACSia koordinoi BIREME, PAHO ja WHO. LILACS includes health publications from Latin America and the Caribbean. LILACS is maintained and updated by a network consisting of over 600 educational, administrative and health research institutes. LILACS is coordinated by BIREME, PAHO, and WHO.
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Public Health Database (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window Database contains journals, dissertations, videos, news, trade publications, reports, and more on the field of public health and related fields.

OTseeker OTseeker sisältää systemaattisia katsauksia ja satunnaistettuja kontrolloituja kokeita toimintaterapian saralta.
Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro) PEDro sisältää systemaattisia katsauksia, satunnaistettuja kontrolloituja kokeita ja hoitosuosituksia fysioterapian ja kuntoutuksen saralta.

ERIC (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window Kasvatustieteen kansainvälinen tietokanta, joka sisältää viitteitä englanninkielisistä aikakauslehtiartikkeleista ja amerikkalaisista tutkimusraporteista kasvatuksen ja koulutuksen alalta vuodesta 1966 alkaen. The ERIC database corresponds to two printed journals: Resources in Education (RIE) and Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). Materials available from 1966.

PsycInfo (Ovid) This link opens in a new window American Psychiatric Association -järjestön ylläpitämä kansainvälinen psykologian ja sen lähialojen viitetietokanta. Viitteitä vuodesta 1806 alkaen. PsycInfo is maintained by American Psychiatric Association, and it provides access to international literature in psychology and related disciplines. PsycInfo database features coverage beginning from 1806.
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Video: APA PsycInfo on Ovid

Scopus (Elsevier) This link opens in a new window Monitieteinen viittaus- ja tiivistelmätietokanta Multidisciplinary abstract and citation database.. Technology, nature sciences, mathematics, business. 1823-, over 60 million references. 21 500 journals, 7,2 million conference proceedings, 360 trade publications, 530 book series. 27 million patents from five patent offices. Note: If the website asks for login information, empty the browser' cache and restart it.
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Scopus tutorials Scopus tutorials provide a visual guide to using the product.

Web of Science This link opens in a new window Viitetietokantoja, joissa on artikkelitietojen lisäksi tietoa artikkelien saamista viittauksista. Web of Science sisältää Science Citation Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index ja Arts & Humanities Citation Index -tietokannat. Sisältää myös Journal and Highly Cited Data -aineiston, joka kattaa Journal Citation Reports ja Essential Science Indicators -aineistot Web of Science provides seamless access to the Science Citation Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Also includes Journal and Highly Cited Data, which covers Journal Citation Reports and Essential Science Indicators -resources. Multidisciplinary. Technology, nature sciences, economy, architecture. Web of Science Core Collection -databases: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts and Humanities Citation Index 1975- and Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Science, Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Social Science & Humanities 1990-, 24 million references. Also Derwent innovation index, Journal citations reports, Essential science indicators, Incites.
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