How do I know what scope a database has?
Answer
The clinicians database page provides a brief description of each database: https://musc.libguides.com/clinical/journals.
To put it simply:
- PubMed: Clinical biomedicine database . ~28 million references.
- Scopus: Health/social/life sciences database. Includes all of MEDLINE and Embase. ~70 million references.
- CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature): Nursing and allied health database . ~4 million references.
- PsycINFO: Psychology and behavioral sciences database . ~4 million references.
The library subscribes to other databases, but the ones above are our most popular.