| CAB Abstracts (via EBSCOhost) |
Covers the significant research and development literature in applied life sciences, including agriculture, the environment, human nutrition, applied economics, leisure/tourism, and veterinary medicine.
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| VetMed Resource |
CABI’s dedicated database for practicing vets that facilitates access to evidence-based research. Contains over 2.1 million records (derived from CAB Abstracts).
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| PubMed |
Database of biomedical and life sciences literature
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| Plumb's Veterinary Drugs |
Continuously updated pharmacological information for veterinary use.
Includes a dosage calculator, and information sheets for clients.
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| Scopus |
Scopus provides broad indexing and citation coverage of academic journals, books and conference proceedings published worldwide. Delivering a comprehensive overview ofresearch output in the fields of science, engineering, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities, Scopus features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research. Access the Elsevier Scopus guide for information about searching.
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| Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science Database (includes ASFA) |
This indexing + full text database from Proquest contains within it:
- Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA)
- Oceanic Abstracts
- Meteorological & Geoastrophysical Abstracts (MGA)
Plus hundreds of full text journals and documents relating to earth, land, and air sciences.
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| Medline Ultimate |
MEDLINE (EBSCOhost) with full text of hundreds of approximately ~5100 journals (as of December 2023), including the JAMA family of journals. Includes some "ahead of print" citations.
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| BioOne (Trial until Dec 2026) |
200+ full-text journals in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. The Robertson Library has subscribed to BioOne on a trial basis from April 2025 - December 2026. At the end of the trial period, the Library will decide based on feedback, use of the resources, and financial considerations on whether we are able to continue subscribing to BioOne. Feedback or questions can be sent to Keri McCaffrey, One Health and Scholarly Communications Librarian at knmccaffrey@upei.ca.
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| Covidence |
Covidence is online software for managing the systematic review process. It facilitates the process of screening references (both title/abstract and full-text), conducting data extraction, completing risk of bias analysis and creating a PRISMA flowchart. Request invitation to join University of Prince Edward Island's Covidence account: https://tinyurl.com/2p92b4yw
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| Google Scholar |
Searches scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts, and articles. Note: only use the proxied link when you are off-campus. If you are on campus, go directly to Google Scholar as http://scholar.google.ca.
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| Federal Science Library (formerly WAVES) |
Contains records for published & unpublished literature on fisheries, aquatic sciences & nautical sciences. You can search the entire Federal Science Library or limit your search to the Fisheries and Oceans Canada Collection (formerly known as WAVES).
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| RxFiles |
RxFiles is an academic detailing program providing objective, comparative drug information to clinicians. RxFiles also includes newsletter reviews, Q&As, trial summaries, and up-to-date drug comparison charts. [description from database website] New instructions as of February 2024 on how to use the mobile app with UPEI's subscription enabled:
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| SAGE Research Methods Video: Practical Research and Academic Skills |
This collection of over 450 streaming videos on the SAGE Research Methods platform offers support on the practical skills that you need to successfully complete your research. Key areas such as writing a research proposal, planning and designing a research project, and securing ethical approval are explicitly covered. Practical skills such as project management, writing for publication, presenting work, and building networks are also presented through helpful explanatory videos.
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| Sage Research Methods Foundations |
SAGE Research Methods Foundations is a large series of extended articles/short books edited by Paul Atkinson, Sara Delamont, Alexandru Cernat, Joseph W. Sakshaug & Richard A. Williams. It is the perfect companion for novice researchers and provides bite-size, introductory overviews to all the major methods topics to help get you on your way.
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| Dynamed |
DynaMed is a clinical decision support solution with a mission to provide the most useful evidence-based information to healthcare professionals at the point of care.
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| Veterinary Medicine: Images & Videos |
Visual Guides of Animal Reproduction (formerly known as The Drost Project)
- a collection of visual images for veterinary students and colleagues and other professionals around the globe; includes guides for bovine reproduction, bubaline (water buffalo) reproduction, equine (horse) reproduction, ovine (sheep) reproduction, porcine (pig) reproduction, caprine (goat) reproduction, and canine (dog) reproduction. T
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| SSRN Veterinary Science Research Network (VetSciRN) |
An open access preprint server that provides a venue for authors to showcase their research papers. SSRN fosters an interdisciplinary connection, helping veterinary scholars and educators discover current research in their own and related fields such as agriculture, cognitive science, law, medicine, neurology, and philosophy.
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| JAMAevidence |
JAMAevidence helps decision makers identify the best available evidence by providing guides to the systematic consideration of the validity, importance, and applicability of claims about the assessment of health problems and the outcomes of health care.
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| Agricola (via National Agricultural Library) [Public Access] |
The National Agricultural Library collection of more than 3.5 million items covers all aspects of agriculture and related sciences.
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| CCOHS |
Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety
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| OpenAlex |
A free, web-based academic search engine and comprehensive bibliographic catalog of scientific authors, institutions, and publications with free-to-use datasets, user-friendly interface, and effective indexing of diamond open access journals. It has indexed over 260 million scholarly works from 260,800 sources as of 2024, and growing.
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| CAB Abstracts (via CAB Direct) |
Covers the significant research and development literature in applied life sciences, including agriculture, the environment, human nutrition, applied economics, leisure/tourism, and veterinary medicine. Access is provided directly through CAB Direct, CABI's online database platform.
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