Veterinary Medicine: Find Articles

Key Veterinary Medicine Databases

AGRICOLA This link opens in a new window
A bibliographic database covering agriculture and life sciences, primarily in English, but with some content in other languages. Includes citations for journal articles, theses, translations, monographs, proceedings, and technical reports. Content is updated monthly.

License Information: There are no restrictions to the number of simultaneous users. Access is restricted to current students, faculty, and staff of the University of Saskatchewan, and to walk-in users of the University of Saskatchewan Library for educational, research, and non-commercial personal use. It is accessible in the library, on campus, and remotely. Systematic copying or downloading of electronic resource content is not permitted by Canadian and International Copyright law.
CABI: CAB Abstracts & CAB Abstracts Archive This link opens in a new window
Index and abstract database to agriculture, forestry, and biosciences literature, including: journals, books, conference proceedings, reports, and patents. Includes literature from over 140 countries in more than 40 languages. Part of the Web of Knowledge.

License Information: There are no restrictions to the number of simultaneous users. Access is restricted to current students, faculty, and staff of the University of Saskatchewan, and to "walk-in" users of the University of Saskatchewan Library for educational, research, and non-commercial personal use. It is accessible in the library, on campus, and remotely. Systematic copying or downloading of electronic resource content is not permitted by Canadian and International Copyright law.
MEDLINE: Ovid MEDLINE This link opens in a new window
Major bibliographic database for clinical medicine, including: internal medicine, general medicine, primary care, family medicine, and general practice, as well as: veterinary medicine, nursing, allied health, dentistry, and pre-clinical sciences.
Access Note: Internet Explorer versions 8, 9, and 10 will not be supported after December 31, 2018.

License Information: There are no restrictions to the number of simultaneous users. Access is restricted to current students, faculty, and staff of the University of Saskatchewan, and to "walk-in" users of the University of Saskatchewan Library for educational, research, and non-commercial personal use. It is accessible in the library, on campus, and remotely. Systematic copying or downloading of electronic resource content, including the downloading of a full issue, is not permitted by Canadian and International Copyright law. Access Note: When creating an Ovid personal account, users will be asked to sign an End User License Agreement. Existing users will be asked to update their accounts by signing this new agreement, effective March 2021.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
Index and abstract database covering the fields of "medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and preclinical sciences. It includes access to MEDLINE and to citations for selected articles in life science journals not included in MEDLINE. ..[It] also provides access to additional relevant Web sites and links to the other NCBI molecular biology resources."
Access Note: As of July 2021, in order to access your personal MyNCBI account for saved search strategies, etc. you must authenticate via third-party Multi-Factor-Authentication. Please use the link below to choose which third-party option is best for you.
https://ncbiinsights.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/my-ncbi-login-transition-tips/#choosing. If you just wish to search PubMed for locating resources then no further login is required.

License Information: There are no restrictions to the number of simultaneous users. This is an Open Access resource freely available on the Internet. However, the University of Saskatchewan site requires authentication for the convenience of faculty and student access to full text link out. Systematic copying or downloading of electronic resource content, including the downloading of a full issue, is not permitted by Canadian and International Copyright law.
Scopus This link opens in a new window
A very large abstract and index database of research literature and quality web sources covering the science, technolgy, and medicine (STM), and social sciences.

License Information: This license was negotiated by the Canadian Research Knowledge Network. There are no restrictions to the number of simultaneous users. Access is restricted to current students, faculty, staff of the University of Saskatchewan, and to "walk-in" users of the University of Saskatchewan Library for educational, research, and non-commercial personal use. It is accessible in the library, on campus, and remotely. Systematic copying or downloading of electronic resource content, including the downloading of a full issue, is not permitted by Canadian and International Copyright law.
Web of Science Core Collection This link opens in a new window
Collection of citation databases, providing abstracts and indexing and cited reference searching to over 10,000 high impact scholarly research journals worldwide, including Open Access journals and over 110,000 conference proceedings, and covering topics in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.

License Information: This license was negotiated by the Canadian Research Knowledge Network. There are no restrictions to the number of simultaneous users. Access is restricted to current students, faculty, and staff of the University of Saskatchewan, and to "walk-in" users of the University of Saskatchewan Library for educational, research, and non-commercial personal use. It is accessible in the library, on campus, and remotely. Systematic copying or downloading of electronic resource content, including the downloading of a full issue, is not permitted by Canadian and International Copyright law.

Other Relevant Databases

EMBASE: Excerpta Medica & EMBASE Classic This link opens in a new window
Major biomedical and pharmaceutical database that indexes international veterinary medicine journals. Includes the archive, EMBASE Classic back to 1947. EMBASE Excerpta Medica Database (EMBASE) is a subset of EMBASE.

License Information: This license was negotiated by the Health Knowledge Network. Access is restricted to four (4) simultaneous users. Access is restricted to current students, faculty, and staff of the University of Saskatchewan, and to "walk-in" users of the University of Saskatchewan Library for educational, research, and non-commercial personal use. It is accessible in the library, on campus, and remotely. Systematic copying or downloading of electronic resource content, including the downloading of a full issue, is not permitted by Canadian and International Copyright law. License Information: There are no restrictions to the number of simultaneous users. Access is restricted to current students, faculty, and staff of the University of Saskatchewan, and to "walk-in" users of the University of Saskatchewan Library for educational, research, and non-commercial personal use. It is accessible in the library, on campus, and remotely. Systematic copying or downloading of electronic resource content is not permitted by Canadian and International Copyright law. Access Note: When creating an Ovid personal account, users will be asked to sign an End User License Agreement. Existing users will be asked to update their accounts by signing this new agreement, effective March 2021.
Clinical Key This link opens in a new window
Provides access to current medical and surgical content including First Consult, journals, medical and surgical books, medical videos and images.

License Information: There are no restrictions to the number of simultaneous users. Access is restricted to current students, faculty, and staff of the University of Saskatchewan, and to "walk-in" users of the University of Saskatchewan Library for educational, research, and non-commercial personal use. It is accessible in the library, on campus, and remotely. Systematic copying or downloading of electronic resource content, including the downloading of a full issue, is not permitted by Canadian and International Copyright law.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
You can find the Library's full text holdings in Google Scholar. Just look for the "FindIt!" or "FullText" links on the right side of the screen, beside each search result.
Access Note: To enable "FindIt!" on your home computer: On the Google Scholar page navigate to "Settings" > "Library links" > search for University of Saskatchewan > ensure all three checkboxes are marked > save.

License Information: This is an Open Access resource freely available on the Internet.
Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database (CBCA) This link opens in a new window
Covers current events, culture, business, education, history, language, government etc. In addition to scholarly journals, sources include magazines, newspapers, news services, dissertations, and books.

License Information: This is a Saskatchewan Multitype Database Licensing Project (MDLP) license. There are no restrictions to the number of simultaneous users. Access is restricted to current students, faculty, and staff of the University of Saskatchewan, and to walk-in users of the University of Saskatchewan Library for educational, research, and non-commercial personal use. It is accessible in the library, on campus, and remotely. Systematic copying or downloading of electronic resource content is not permitted by Canadian and International Copyright law.
VetMed Resource This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive information resource containing veterinary information derived from CABI: CAB Abstracts to provide the ideal support for veterinary continuing education.

License Information: There are no restrictions to simultaneous use. Access is restricted to current students, faculty, and staff of the University of Saskatchewan, and to "walk-in" users of the University of Saskatchewan Library for educational, research, and non-commercial personal use. It is accessible in the library, on campus, and remotely. Systematic copying or downloading of electronic resource content, including the downloading of a full issue, is not permitted by Canadian and International Copyright law.
Zoological Record This link opens in a new window
The world's leading taxonomic reference and oldest continuing database of animal biology, considered the world's unofficial register of animal names. Coverage extends back to 1864. Part of the Web of Knowledge.

License Information: This license was negotiated by the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN). There are no restrictions to the number of simultaneous users. Access is restricted to current students, faculty, and staff of the University of Saskatchewan, and to "walk-in" users of the University of Saskatchewan Library for educational, research, and non-commercial personal use. It is accessible in the library, on campus, and remotely. Systematic copying or downloading of electronic resource content is not permitted by Canadian and International Copyright law.

Keywords v.s. Subject Headings

Keywords and Subject Headings are both useful tools when searching. Some databases don't have subject headings, so identifying keywords and synonyms is an important part of searching.

See the Formulating Your Search Strategy research guide for additional information.

Database Searching Help

This video, from the University of Kansas Libraries, demonstrates effective search strategies such as synonym searching, using AND, OR, and NOT, and phrase searching.

Formulating your Search Strategy (USask Research Guide)
Covers concepts, synonyms, Boolean operators, truncation, and shows you how to put it all together
Help Guide for CINAHL Plus with Full Text [PDF]
A step-by-step approach for searching the CINAHL database.
Help Guide for ERIC (Ovid) [PDF]
Created by the University of Saskatchewan, Education & Music Library
Help Guide for Medline (Ovid) [PDF]
A step-by-step approach to searching Medline.
Help Guide for PsycINFO (Ovid) [PDF]
Step-by-step instructions for searching PsycINFO.
Help Guide for Scopus [PDF]
Breakdown of the way in which Scopus interprets a search and how to refine results.
Help Guide for Web of Science [PDF]
Examples of different methods for searching Web of Science.

Using Google Scholar

Using Google Scholar
A short video created by the Cooperative Library Instruction Project.