Selected Resources to Find Books, Articles, News and Business Literature, and Protocols

Biomedical Article Citations and Preprints

• PubMed
• Embase
  • see tutorials on Searching Off-label Drug Use, Medical Device Search, Pharmacovigilance (PV) literature monitoring, and more.
• Scopus
• Web of Science
• Preprints: medRxiv (health sciences) and bioRxiv (biology) (also since Jan 2023, selected preprints are covered in PubMed)

Industry News and Analysis

• STAT+ (to access for the first time, proceed to http://www.statnews.com/subscribe and use your @virginia.edu OR @uvahealth.org email address to create an account). Subscription-based journalism service by STAT that provides in-depth reporting and analysis on biotech, pharma, life sciences, health tech, policy, and the healthcare industry. Includes access to all STAT news content plus subscriber-only newsletters, email alerts, and premium tools. 

Newspapers

• New York Times - Learn how to create your free New York Times account
• Wall Street Journal
• Browse a large number of contemporary papers, including the Washington Post through Factiva
• Access more than 50 newspaper databases, including historical newspapers

Business-related Journals

• Harvard Business Review (via Business Source Complete)
• Bloomberg Businessweek (via Business Source Complete)
• Fortune (via Business Source Complete)
• The Economist (via Gale in Context: U.S. History)

Business-related Databases (see the University Library Commerce page for a complete listing)

• ABI/INFORM Global

  Research business conditions, management techniques, business trends, management practice and theory, corporate strategy and tactics, and competitive landscape.

• Business Source Complete

  Topics such as marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Find articles plus financial data, books, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, market, industry, and country reports, company profiles, and SWOT analyses.

• Data Axle Reference Solutions (formerly ReferenceUSA)

  Numerous databases for business and consumer research. It offers access to over 20 million businesses and 222 million consumers.

• Dewey Data

  You must register for a Dewey account using your UVA email address and authenticate with NetBadge.
  Research platform that provides access to third-party datasets across a variety of data categories including healthcare, management, workforce, consumer behavior, and transportation.

• Gartner

  Gartner’s Campus Access Tool enables access to the Core Research library which includes white papers, webinars, and more on an array of technology-related topics, including: information technology, administration, medical and healthcare programs, library sciences, industry trends, and analysis.

• IBISWorld

  Insight into America's 700+ industries through accurate and current business information focused on economic, demographic and government data.

• Market Atlas

  Provides tools for both interactive online research and easy predefined report access across multiple product modules including Company, Sustainability, Industry, Country, and Economic analysis. Covers over 50,000 US and foreign public companies, current and historical (past 15 years) firm descriptions, statistics, financial information and ratios, annual reports, mergers, acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, long-term debt, capital stock, and insider trading.

• ProcurementIQ
  Pricing data, supplier intelligence, and contract strategies for 1000+ categories across the globe. Get information on Opportunity Assessment, Buyer Power Score, Price Environment, Supply Chain & Vendors, and more.

Search full-text biomedical articles by collection

• PubMed Central (PMC) (collection of publications resulting from NIH funding)
• Europe PMC (worldwide collection of life science publications and preprints and repository for many international funders)

Search full-text articles via publisher collections

• ScienceDirect (Elsevier)
• SpringerLINK
• Wiley Online Library

Find protocols and other resources

• See our full guide on Finding Protocols, including UVA-licensed resources

Off-Grounds Access

• UVA Anywhere: Provides an off-Grounds connection via VPN software to library resources (databases, e-journals, e-books etc) that normally require you to be on Grounds to use them.
• Interlibrary Loan: request copies of books or journal articles UVA doesn't own (UVA-only; login required)

Find Print and Online Books

• Virgo UVA’s Library Catalog - search for print or online books at any of UVA's libraries (choose Limit by Resource Type Books after searching)

This guide provides an awareness of key library- and data-related resources and services for you as biomedical faculty at UVA.

Software at UVA

• UVA Software Gateway: list of licensed software provided by UVa

Online Learning

• Online courses through UVA's subscription to LinkedIn Learning (formerly Lynda.com)
• E-books through O'Reilly