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Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials The EBSCOhost User Interface has been upgraded to an all new user experience! Use this guide to get acquainted with the new interface.Cochrane Controlled Trials Register is a bibliography of controlled trials identified by contributors to the Cochrane Collaboration and others, as part of an international effort to hand search the world's journals and create an unbiased source of data for systematic reviews. Includes reports published in conference proceedings and other sources not currently listed in MEDLINE or other bibliographic databases. CCRCT is part of Cochrane Collection Plus which combines the most comprehensive databases from the Cochrane Library, a key resource in evidence-based medicine. All databases in Cochrane Collection Plus are published by Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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Nursing eBooks (R2 Digital Library) The R2 Digital Library offers health science eBooks from leading publishers. With one of the most extensive selections of Doody’s Core Titles, the R2 Digital Library has the content essential to the modern health science library. These high yield and focused eBooks are carefully sourced to provide the specialized content demanded by health science collections. As a web-based ePlatform, the R2 Digital Library offers seamless eBook access on desktop computers, laptops, tablets, smartphones and web-capable eReaders.
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OVID Nursing Full Text PLUS Ovid Nursing Full Text PLUS is a comprehensive single source of premier current journal content from Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Access includes 33 research and 12 practitioner- oriented journals. Journal coverage dates as far back as 1995.
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