Guides: Biomedical ethics: Find articles

Core Databases

BELIT (bioethics literature database)
Bioethics database providing access to records from the integrated German, American and French databases. Contains references to monographs, grey literature, legal documents, journal articles, newspaper articles and book contributions. Database access via ETHICSWEB or producer’s website. English or German interface available.

Developed by the German Reference Centre for Ethics in the Life Sciences (DRZE, Bonn) and operated in co-operation with the Information and FDocumentation Centre on Ethics in Medicine (IDEM, Göttingen), the International Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW, Tübingen), the Bioethics Research Library at Georgetown University (Kennedy Institute of Ethics (KIE), Washington, DC) and the Centre de documentation en éthique (CDE, Comité consultatif national d'éthique, Paris).
MEDLINE (OVID) ALL, 1946-
Alternative interface to search MEDLINE (instead of searching PubMed)
Philosopher's Index (ProQuest)
Philpapers : Philosophical Research Online
PubMed (McGill)
Publicly available platform to search MEDLINE
Scopus (Elsevier)
Multidisciplinary database that can be used as a bibliographic database or as a citation database
Web of Science Core Collection (All Indexes)
Multidisciplinary database that can be used as a bibliographic database (to identify article records, conference papers, and more) or as a citation database

Includes Citation Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (1900-present), Social Sciences Citation Index (1900-present), Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present), Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Science (1990-present), Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Social Science & Humanities (1990-present), Book Citation Index– Science (2005-present), Book Citation Index– Social Sciences & Humanities (2005-present), Emerging Sources Citation Index (2005-present). Chemical Indexes include: Current Chemical Reactions (1985-present, plus Institut National de la Propriete Industrielle structure data back to 1840), and Index Chemicus (1993-present).

Additional Databases

ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials (EBSCO)
Resource for religious and theological studies, providing bibliographic records covering topics such as biblical studies, world religions, church history and religion in social issues. Contains over 2.9 million index records covering the research literature of religion in many languages. Bibliographic records represent scholarship on major religions, faiths, denominations and languages. Updated monthly,
Cairn
A comprehensive collection of publications in the French language available online in full text in the disciplines of economics, law, history and geography, literature and linguistics, psychology, education, political science, sociology, and sport.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text (EBSCO)
Full text database in the areas of nursing and allied health journals. Contains approximately 770 journals from the CINAHL index with coverage back to 1937.
Embase Classic + Embase (Ovid)
Embase Classic 1947-1973.
Google Scholar
PsycINFO 1806-present (Ovid)
Index database for psychology. Covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines, including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, pharmacology, physiology and linguistics.
* Quick reference guide - How to search PsycINFO

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Biomedical ethics

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