Electronic resources
Databases
- Important databases in medicine:
- PubMed (MEDLINE) - most important literature database in the Life Sciences (Training course)
- The Cochrane Library - literature database focused on evidence-based medicine
- Clinical trials - search options for clinical trials
- MEDPILOT - portal for various databases, especially useful for German literature
- Web of Science - literature STM database with linked references
- JCR, SJR, ESI - citation analysis for journals, subject areas and countries
- Pschyrembel Online (in German) - reference tool for medicine and adjacent areas
- MEDITEC - literature database for biomedical technology
- Google Scholar - search engine for scholars
- DIMDI - search portal for various medical databases (for experts)
- Heidelberg database information system (DBIS) (in German)
lists all licenced databases and a selection of freely accessible databases:
DBIS: all databases
DBIS: medicine
Note: Please access PubMed, Cochrane Library, MEDPILOT and Google Scholar using the links on our website, if you want to make use of the "Check full text" service.
DVDs/CD-ROMs
Medical leanring programms on DVDs/CD-ROMs are:
- evidence-based training systems, clinical cases can be trained interactively
- supplement the textbooks and contain additional diagrams and moving images
- programmes with original test questions that can be used to prepare for exams, as questions can be answered under exam conditions
Search, borrow and usage of DVDs/CD-ROMs
- You can only find a portion of the DVDs/CD-ROMs in the online catalogue, as supplements to books do not produce any hits of their own.
- DVDs/CD-ROMs can be found in the resources cabinets behind the circular table. See locations.
- Mediscript and Prometheus DVDs/CD-ROMs (in German) can be borrowed or used within the Library. Please bring your own headphones as we do not lend them due to hygienical reasons.
- We lend the following software on DVD/CD-ROM to faculty members: EndNote, SAS, JMP. Please refer to the lending desk.
E-books
Licensed e-books
Our online catalogue lists mostly medical e-books. You can access the fulltext by clicking on the link "Online available". Furthermore our catalogue includes selected e-books by the external service PaperC.
After a free registration at PaperC you can read textbooks from the first to the last page within a time limit. To print, save or comment parts of the books you need to top up your account (see: Tutorial, in German). The online catalogue includes the subjects medicine, computer/internet, mathematics. They can be recognized by PaperC infront of the book title.
Medical e-books by publisher
Publisher´s package Usage Spinger Medizin German / English
(more than 2500 titles since 2005)Chapters can be downloaded as PDF. Thieme eBook-Library
(ca. 50 titles since 1998)A maxium of ten pages can be downloaded or printed.
Bookmark and note functionalities can be used after registering.Karger E-Book-Collection
(419 titles, 1997-2009)Chapters can be downloaded as PDF. - In HEIDI, the online catalogue of the University Library of Heidelberg, you can search for e-books of all subjects. To do so, please click on options and check Online Resources only in the search interface.
More, freely availabe e-books
- PubMed Bookshelf is a continually growing collection of biomedical books. You can search the full text of these books and access most of them for free.
- FreeBooks4Doctors provides free access to a large collection of medical books. You can search this database by subject category, title and language.
E-journals
What are e-journals?
An e-journal is the electronic version of a journal. It can often be accessed before its printed counterpart and can contain preprints, which are only offered online. E-journals are increasingly replacing the printed version of a journal.
How and where do I search for e-journals?
Note: The online catalogue and the EZB do not list articles, only journal titles!
- Searching our online catalogue
Comprises accessible e-journals from the subjects medicine, biology, chemistry & pharmacy, physics, psychology, and informatics. The links shown on the hits lead to the full-texts of the articles - please take into account the licensed periods! - Searching the EZB Heidelberg
Comprises freely available and licensed e-journals from all subjects. If applicable it links to the full-texts of the articles. Further information on searching the EZB.
Search options: You can either search alphabetically, by subject or using fields via Search (e.g. by publisher and ISSN). The quick search is intended for title words.- The availability of full text access is indicated by different colours, e.g.
= access for authorized persons. - Information on the licence period (first/last full-text issue) or on the publisher and ISSN can be accessed in the hit list by clicking on the blue i-symbol.
EZB information icon
- Thematical search
You can display e-journals sorted by medical subjects: - No matching licence periods or no results?
- If the volumes you need are not licenced, you will usually only get table of contents and abstracts of the articles on the publisher´s website.
- You can run a search in the online catalogue and check wheather the Library offers a printed version of the journal.
- If we do not offer the journal you are searching for, you can make use of our Document delivery service (LLD) and order the article you need.
E-learning offerings
You can use several e-learning systems (in German):
- Moodle (in German)
Heidelberg University's e-learning platform - KELDAmed
the Commented E-Learning Database comprises freely available e-learning offerings - Thieme Examen Online (in German)
online training-tool for the 1. and 2. medical examination - Online-Tutorials by the Library (in German)
online trainings for searching literature and an introduction into academic research and writing
In addition you can make use of serveral medical training programms on DVDs/CD-ROMs.
