Veterinary Medicine

Welcome to the veterinary medicine subject guide. Here you will find sources for reliable veterinary medicine information in a variety of formats. Check the links below. Or use the curated list of databases to help find journal articles or other resources.

Title Description
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.
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). 

  • Over 145,000 full-text documents (journal articles, conference papers, reports)
  • Over 2.2 million…
PubMed

Free, searchable database of biomedical and life sciences literature maintained by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) (part of the National Institutes of Health, or NIH). PubMed facilitates searching across several NLM literature resources:

  • MEDLINE: consists primarily of…
Plumb's Veterinary Drugs

Continuously updated pharmacological information for veterinary use.

 

Includes a dosage calculator, and information sheets for clients.

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…

Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science Database

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…

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…

Google Scholar (on-campus link)Google Scholar (off-campus use only)

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://…

Medline Ultimate

Medline (on the EBSCO platform) with access to extensive full text of approximately ~5100 journals (as of December 2023). More details available from EBSCO

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).
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…

Sage Research Methods Foundations

SAGE Research Methods Foundations is a large series of extended articles/short books edited by Paul Atkinson, Sara…

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…

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.
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…
CCOHS: Academic Support Program

Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety

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.

 

Dynamed is an EBSCO product. It has its own platform for specialty medical use, but some of its content is…

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. It includes:

  • Textbooks
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…

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.
SSRN VetSciRN

The Veterinary Science Research Network on SSRN is an open access preprint server that provides a venue for authors to showcase their research papers in our digital library, speeding up dissemination and providing the scholarly community access to groundbreaking working papers, early-stage…

Date Revised: 2025-07-31

 

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