Databases - alphabetical list

– databases available in the PUMS network and from personal computers via remote access – access to e-resources

– open access databases

– resources available on special terms (detailed information in the database description field)

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		Type: base bibliographic-abstract, full-text Access method: in the PUMS network and from personal devices via remote access Description: Academic Search Ultimate, a multidisciplinary full-text database covering medical, biomedical, social, engineering and technical, humanities and agricultural sciences, provides access to: bibliographic descriptions along with abstracts of articles from almost 20 journals from various publishers, full text articles from over 13 journals and over a thousand books, conference materials and reports, over 75 Associated Press videos available in a carousel in the search results list, offers the ability to create advanced search queries (using search index terms and based on natural language), Creating a personal account expands your options for working with search results on the EBSCOhost platform and in the Multisearch engine. Additional information: User tutorials User Instructional Materials
		Type: full-text database, e-books Access method: in the PUMS network and from personal devices via remote access Description: Access Medicine interactive, multimedia medical platform provides access to: over 150 latest editions of textbooks in English published by McGraw Hill, a database of drug monographs, medical case studies, a database of diagnostic tools, guidelines and procedure algorithms, instructional videos, learning tools and a set of self-assessment tests, Additional information: Access – phone app Access Medicine Guide
		Type: full-text database, e-journals Access method: in the PUMS network and from personal devices via remote access Description: the platform provides access to a collection of 90 full-text journals in the field of chemistry, biochemistry, molecular biology, physics, materials engineering, medical sciences and pharmacy: ACS Web Editions package covering years 1996 and later, ACS Legacy Archives package containing archival yearbooks. Additional information: ACS Consortium License Open Access Program 2026-2028 List of magazines in the publisher's offer (including those subscribed to by BG UMP) User tutorials
		Type: full-text database, e-journals Access method: open Description: the platform offers access to full text articles from over 50 peer-reviewed journals in the field of biomedical, natural, physical and social sciences, including economics, published by Annual Reviews, contains critical reviews of a broad area of basic research in the form of summaries synthesizing the most important discoveries in selected fields in a given year, full text articles are made available by the publisher in open access, under the Subscribe to Open (S2O) model. Additional information: Alphabetical list of magazines Service for authors
		Type: factual database Access method: open Description: information about Polish scientific and industry electronic journals, indexes about 4,5 thousand periodicals, including about 600 archival periodicals, collects detailed data on journals, including: journal title, website links, ISSN, publisher, frequency, information on the availability of tables of contents, abstracts and full texts, MNiSW score, Impact factor, ERIH category, information on indexing in databases, information about the type of open license used by the journal, database maintained and updated by employees of the University of Silesia Library.
		Type: bibliographic database Access method: open Description: Database created by the Main Library of the Poznań University of Medical Sciences. Contains bibliographic descriptions of publications by employees of the Medical Academy from the years 1950-1990, as well as scientific and supervisory achievements of the Faculty of Pharmacy and Medicine of the University of Poznań for the years 1945-1950. It is created in the EXPERTUS system and is an electronic version of the printed bibliography yearbooks. The bibliographic record contains the title of the publication in the original language and in most cases its English version, information about the authors, a description of the source of the document and detailed bibliographic data. The search can be conducted according to various search keys: by University departments, authors, titles, by publication sources, types of publications and any keywords within the entire record. Descriptions of works published in journals with an "impact factor" include the value of this indicator.
		Type: bibliographic and bibliometric database Access method: open Description: Database created by the Main Library of the University of Warsaw. Contains records from 1991 and is updated on an ongoing basis. It is created in the EXPERTUS system, developed by the SPLENDOR company. In principle, it includes information on all publications by authors who are employees of the University's departments and clinics, as well as on doctoral dissertations defended at the Medical Academy/Medical University (also by authors from outside the Academy whose supervisors were University employees). The database is indexed based on the Polish Medical Thesaurus and Medical Subject Headings. The search can be conducted according to various keys: by University faculties, organizational units, authors, titles of publications, by sources of publications, English and Polish keywords, by any words and by types of publications. The descriptions of works published in journals included in the Journal Citation Reports (having an "impact factor") include the value of this indicator. Since 2000, the KBN score has been included, and since 2004, the score of the ministry responsible for science.
		Type: full-text database, e-journals Access method: open Description: the platform provides access to full text articles from nearly 300 peer-reviewed Open Access journals in the field of science, technology, engineering and medicine published by BioMedCentral (a Springer Nature publishing group). Additional information: Service for authors List of journals by discipline
		Type: full-text database, e-journals Access method: in the PUMS network and from personal devices via remote access Description: the platform provides access to a collection of 29 licensed medical journals from the BMJ Publishing Group, including the BMJ journal: British medical journal, access to full texts of currently published issues and complete archives.
		Type: full-text database, e-books Access method: open Description: Bookshelf offers free access to full text books and documents in the field of biomedical and natural sciences, as well as healthcare, the collection includes over 1000 documents, including reports, books, standards, guidelines, government publications and internet content, All publications and documents are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine for inclusion in the NLM collection. Additional information: Information for authors and publishers User tutorials
		Type: full-text database, e-journals Access method: in the PUMS network and from personal devices via remote access Description: Cambridge Core provides access to the full collection of e-journals from Cambridge University Press (CUP), includes access to full texts of approximately 400 journals in the fields of science and medicine, as well as humanities and social sciences, Additional information: Cambridge 2026 Open Publishing Programme List of journals in the publisher's offer by discipline (including those subscribed to by BG UMP) List of magazines in the publisher's offer (including those subscribed to by BG UMP)
		Type: bibliographic and factual database Access method: open Description: An open-access database published by the Royal Society of Chemistry, the world's leading publisher of chemistry materials. The database contains data from over a hundred publications on the properties and related information for over 20 million chemical structures. Additional information: User tutorials
		Type: bibliographic-abstract, full-text database Access method: in the PUMS network and from personal devices via remote access Description: full text CINAHL Ultimate (Ebsco) Nursing and Health Sciences database provides access to: full texts or abstracts of articles from over 6 journals and magazines from various publishers, books and reports, educational materials and standards of care consistent with evidence-based medical practice, over 130 instructional videos covering techniques, procedures and best practices in care, the database resources are indexed based on CINAHL subject headings, consistent with the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) structure, offers the ability to create advanced search queries (using search index terms and based on natural language), Creating a personal account expands your options for working with search results on the EBSCOhost platform and in the Multisearch engine. Additional information: User tutorials User Instructional Materials Instructional Materials – PICOT Tool
		Type: factual database Access method: open Description: information on clinical trials conducted by institutions around the world, Research data is prepared and updated directly by the institutions conducting the research, the database is maintained by the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health USA.
		Type: bibliographic database, full text, Evidence Based Medicine Access method: in the PUMS network and from personal devices via remote access Description: The Cochrane Library service enables thematic searching and use of available full texts within the databases: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR) – systematic reviews and protocols on the effectiveness of therapeutic, preventive and rehabilitation activities in health care, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) – bibliographic data and abstracts of reports of controlled trials from around the world, Cochrane Clinical Answers (CCA) – concise, evidence-based answers to clinical questions based on Cochrane reviews. Additional information: User tutorials
		Type: three-dimensional (3D) anatomy learning platform Access method: after registering an individual account and activating access using the code in the application Guaranteed access to: September 30, 2026 Description: educational three-dimensional (3D) anatomy learning platform, available as an application to download and install on various devices (Mac, iPad, iPhone, Android, Windows), To use the atlas, you need to obtain it from the Lending Desk individual access code, a necessary condition for receiving it is to have an active Reader Account: only an individual access code (received in the current academic year) guarantees access to the Complete Anatomy platform until September 30, 2026, codes are issued in the order of applications, the number of individual codes is limited, we do not guarantee access to all interested persons, To use Complete Anatomy you must: download the demo version using the appropriate link - the list of applications is available on the website Complete Anatomy, create an account on the Complete Anatomy platform, providing an email address in the university domain: @student.ump.edu.pl or @ump.edu.pl, in the program settings, enter the individual activation code received from the BG UMP Rental, access will be activated automatically as part of the license paid by UMP. Additional information: User tutorials
		Type: base bibliographic-abstract, full-text Access method: in the PUMS network and from personal devices via remote access Description: Dentistry&Oral Sciences Source full-text database in the field of dentistry and oral hygiene provides access to full texts or abstracts of articles from over 400 journals from various publishers, offers the ability to create advanced search queries (using search index terms and based on natural language), Creating a personal account expands your options for working with search results on the EBSCOhost platform and in the Multisearch engine. Additional information: User tutorials User Instructional Materials
		Type: full-text database, e-journals Access method: open Description: the service registers over 20 Open Access scientific journals from all scientific disciplines, available under free and open access, contains basic information for publishers about each journal registered on the website, including information about: publisher, subject area, language and country in which it is published, open access policy, license terms and copyright terms, publication fees for authors, instructions for authors, and the editorial process.
		Type: full-text database, e-books Access method: in the PUMS network and from personal devices via remote access Description: access to the full-text Health & Medicine Ebook Subscription collection – over 20 books from various publishers in the field of medicine and related sciences, available on the Ebook Central (ProQuest) platform, books are available in PDF and EPUB formats, the ability to use extensive search options: simple, advanced and keyword search in full texts, The Research Assistant (AI-based feature) – available for some books in the collection, allows you to generate key conclusions for selected chapters and obtain detailed explanations of important concepts and ideas discussed in the text, Creating a personal account on the Ebook Central platform allows you to: adding selected titles to an individual bookshelf, using advanced text tools: creating notes and bookmarks, marking text fragments, downloading fragments or chapters, timely lending of entire books to your own device (installation of Adobe Digital Editions required). Additional information: User tutorials
		Type: bibliographic-abstract, full-text database Access method: in the PUMS network and from personal devices via remote access Description: The EBSCOhost platform enables thematic searching and use of available full texts, including journals and books, within Ebsco's thematic databases: Academic Search Ultimate – multi-disciplinary database, bibliographic-abstract database, full-text database, Agricola – agricultural and natural sciences, bibliographic and abstract database, Business Source Ultimate – business and economics, bibliographic and abstract database, full text, CINAHL Ultimate – nursing, health sciences, bibliographic and abstract database, full text, Dentistry & Oral Sciences Source – dentistry, bibliographic and abstract database, full text, ERIC – education and upbringing, bibliographic and abstract database, European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750 – a database of publications from Europe concerning North and South America, a bibliographic and abstract database, GreenFILE – human impact on the environment, bibliographic and abstract database, Health Source – Consumer Edition – health knowledge, bibliographic and abstract database, full text, Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition – nursing, bibliographic and abstract database, full text, Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts – library science, scientific information, bibliographic and abstract database, MasterFILE Premier – a multi-disciplinary database for public libraries, a bibliographic-abstract, full-text database, MasterFILE Reference eBook Collection – general interest eBooks, full text, MEDLINE – medical and biomedical sciences, health care, bibliographic and abstract database, MEDLINE Ultimate – medical and biomedical sciences, health care, bibliographic and abstract database, full text, Newspaper Source – texts of articles from the press, mainly American, bibliographic and abstract database, full text, Regional Business News – economic and business issues concerning the USA, bibliographic and abstract database, full text, Teacher Reference Center – pedagogy, bibliographic and abstract database. Additional information: Country License – Scope and Rules for Sharing Ebsco Licensed Resources User tutorials User Instructional Materials Instructional Materials – PICOT Tool EBSCOhost® Passport™ – Browser Extension
		Type: full-text database, e-books Access method: in the PUMS network and from personal devices via remote access Guaranteed access to: 31 October 2026 Description: access to a collection of selected medical textbooks in Polish published by Edra Urban & Partner the ability to print book fragments (up to 5% of the content of a single title within 24 hours) and store them exclusively for your own purposes, books are available in pdf and epub formats, the ability to read books on mobile devices, after creating a personal account, advanced tools for working with text are available, including: creating notes and bookmarks, marking fragments, list of available textbooks: Anatomia Woźniak – red. M. Bruska, B. Ciszek Diagnostyka laboratoryjna z elementami biochemii – A. Dembińska-Kieć, J.W. Naskalski, B. Solnica Embriologia i wady wrodzone – K.L. Moore, T.V.N. Persaud, M.G. Torchia Farmakologia Danysza. Kompendium farmakologii i farmakoterapii – W. Buczko, A. Danysz Human Physiology: A Textbook for Medical Students – ed. J. Lewin-Kowalik Histologia. Podręcznik dla studentów medycyny i stomatologii – M. Zabel Immunologia. Funkcje i zaburzenia układu immunologicznego – A.K. Abbas, A.H. Lichtman, S. Pillai Konturek Fizjologia człowieka. Podręcznik dla studentów medycyny – S. Konturek Mikrobiologia – P. R. Murray, K.S. Rosenthal, M.A. Pfaller Netter. Atlas anatomii człowieka. Polskie mianownictwo anatomiczne – F. Netter Patofizjologia – I. Damjanov Pediatria – G. Clayden, T. Lissauer Psychiatria – P. Gałecki, A. Szulc
		Type: base bibliographic-abstract Access method: in the PUMS network and from personal devices via remote access Description: Embase is the world's largest database of biomedical databases of published, peer-reviewed literature, journal articles, and conference abstracts. Embase, a database containing manually indexed information from over 8500 biomedical journals from over 5000 publishers, over 40 million records including 2.4 million conference abstracts. The database indexes full texts based on the EMTREE biomedical dictionary. Users have access to functionalities that are essential for conducting research on drugs, diseases and medical devices. Using the Embase.com interface, we have access to secondary terms and triple linking (semantic relations extracted from the full text), which allows, among other things, direct comparison of drug effects (semantic relations between keywords, not their collocation in the text), drug interactions, adverse drug effects, drug combinations, drug therapies and others. Similarly, for diseases, information on drug therapies and adverse effects is extracted. For medical devices, it is possible to compare them and monitor adverse effects and other data. Search wizards allow you to quickly build search strategies for adverse drug reactions, perform clinical evaluations of devices, answer common clinical questions based on evidence-based medicine (EBM), and much more. The Embase.com interface is designed in such a way that it does not require specialized and time-consuming learning of search queries, allowing for intuitive operation through a graphical interface Additional information: User tutorials
		Type: bibliographic-abstract, full-text database Access method: in the PUMS network and from personal devices via remote access Description: intended for patients the full-text Health Source – Consumer Edition database in the broad field of public health provides access to: over a hundred full-text publications, magazines, brochures and leaflets, Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary, ASHP Patient Medication Information guide, a collection of drug information for consumers and patients, offers the ability to create advanced search queries (using search index terms and based on natural language), Creating a personal account expands your options for working with search results on the EBSCOhost platform and in the Multisearch engine. Additional information: User tutorials User Instructional Materials
		Type: bibliographic-abstract, full-text database Access method: in the PUMS network and from personal devices via remote access Description: Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition full-text database in the field of nursing and health care provides access to: full texts or abstracts of articles from almost a thousand journals, Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary, ASHP Patient Medication Information guide, a collection of drug information for consumers and patients, offers the ability to create advanced search queries (using search index terms and based on natural language), Creating a personal account expands your options for working with search results on the EBSCOhost platform and in the Multisearch engine. Additional information: User tutorials User Instructional Materials
		Type: full-text database, e-books Access method: in the PUMS network and from personal devices via remote access Guaranteed access to: 14 October 2026 Description: access to a collection of selected textbooks in Polish published by PZWL, PWN, Wolters Kluwer and UMP Publishing House in the field of medicine, dentistry, pharmacy and health sciences, the ability to read books on mobile devices, after creating a personal myIBUK account: advanced tools for working with text are available, including creating notes, marking fragments, direct linking of issues and content of books with PWN dictionaries and encyclopedias, export of ready-made bibliographic descriptions in one of several formats, books can be read without having to regularly confirm your presence at the device, the number of simultaneous accesses to individual titles is limited by the provisions of the contract, list of textbooks available until October 14, 2026: Anestezjologia i intensywna terapia – red. R. Owczuk Biofizyka – red. L. Kubisz Chemia leków z elementami chemii medycznej dla studentów farmacji i farmaceutów – M. Zając, A. Jelińska, I. Muszalska Chirurgia szczękowo-twarzowa – red. L. Kryst Chirurgia. Tom 1 – 4 – red. G. Wallner, T. Banasiewicz Diagnostyka funkcjonalna w fizjoterapii – A. Ronikier, K. Klukowski Farmacja stosowana : technologia postaci leku – red. M. Sznitowska Fizjologia człowieka : zintegrowane podejście – D. U. Silverthorn Fizjoterapia w neurologii i neurochirurgii – A. Kwolek Immunologia – red. J. Gołąb, W. Lasek, D. Nowis, T. Stokłosa Kluczowe zagadnienia tyflopedagogiki i nauk pokrewnych – J. Kuczyńska-Kwapisz, M. Dycht, E. Śmiechowska-Petrovskij Komunikacja w terapii – H. Knapp Medical Rescue Activities in Paramedic Practice. Volume 1 – ed. R. Podlewski Instrumental methods in chemical analysis – W. Szczepaniak Neurologia. Tom 1 i 2 – red. W. Kozubski Pediatria. Tom 1 i 2 – red. W. Kawalec, R. Grenda, M. Kulus Pielęgniarstwo neurologiczne – red. K. Jaracz, I. Domitrz Podstawy pielęgniarstwa. Tom 1 i 2 – red. D. Zarzycka, B. Ślusarska Położnictwo i ginekologia. Tom 1 i 2 – red. G. H. Bręborowicz Public Health. The Social and Ecological Dimension – ed. S. Golinowska, J. Czepiel, A. Domagała [and 12 others] Radiologia – red. A. Cieszanowski, M. Bekiesińska-Figatowska Stomatologia zachowawcza z endodoncją – red. Z. Jańczuk, U. Kaczmarek, M. Lipski A systematic review of the literature in the social sciences – R. Lenart-Gansiniec Terapia zajęciowa w dysfunkcjach narządu ruchu – A. Bac Terapia zajęciowa. Kompendium – A. Bac Tyflopsychologia – I. Kucharczyk, K. Czerwińska Wiktora Degi ortopedia i rehabilitacja – red. J. Kruczyński Współczesna dermatologia. Tom 1 i 2 – red. L. Rudnicka, M. Olszewska, A. Rakowska, M. Sar-Pomian Zarys botaniki farmaceutycznej – B. Broda Zdrowie publiczne – M. Sygit Additional information: Functionalities and accessing books myIBUK shelf
		Type: bibliometric database Access method: in the PUMS network and from personal devices via remote access Description: An interdisciplinary bibliometric database published annually, used for the substantive evaluation of scientific journals. It is available on the ISI Web of Knowledge platform in two editions: JCR Science Edition (2006-2014) – natural and technical sciences JCR Social Sciences Edition (2006-2014) – social sciences In the JCR database, each journal title has an Impact Factor value, which allows journals to be assessed and compared. IF – this is the number of citations received by a journal in the current year for articles published in that journal in the two previous years, divided by the total number of articles published in the same journal in the same two years. Additional information: Instructions: checking IF values in Journal Citation Reports (JCR) – as of: 18.07.2024/1/XNUMX [XNUMX MB, PDF]
		Type: full-text database, e-journals Access method: in the PUMS network and from personal devices via remote access Description: Ovid platform provides access to: full text articles from the collection of 75 medical journals published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, published on an ongoing basis, along with partial archives, an archival collection of over 100 medical journals, including full-text access until the end of 2023, electronic version of Chapman's Comprehensive Orthopaedic Surgery. Additional information: Open publishing program under the LWW 2026 consortium license List of magazines in the publisher's offer (including those subscribed to by BG UMP)
		Type: full-text database, e-journals Access method: in the PUMS network and from personal devices via remote access Description: Lippincott platform offers access to: full text articles from the collection of 75 medical journals published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, published on an ongoing basis, along with partial archives, an archival collection of over 100 medical journals, with varying archive depths, including full-text access until the end of 2023. Additional information: Open publishing program under the LWW 2026 consortium license List of magazines in the publisher's offer (including those subscribed to by BG UMP)
		Type: base bibliographic-abstract Access method: in the PUMS network and from personal devices via remote access Description: Medline database in the field of medicine and related sciences available on the Ovid platform: indexes over 5200 selected world journals in about 40 languages, includes literature published from 1966 to the present, as well as a large part of literature from before that period, added to the database from converted printed indexes, records are indexed using NLM Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), is developed by the National Library of Medicine in the USA, the database is updated daily with new records. Additional information: User tutorials
		Type: bibliographic and abstract database Access method: in the PUMS network and from personal devices via remote access Description: Medline database on medicine and related sciences available on the Web of Science platform: indexes over 5200 selected world journals in about 40 languages, includes literature published from 1966 to the present, as well as a large part of literature from before that period, added to the database from converted printed indexes, records are indexed using NLM Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), is developed by the National Library of Medicine in the USA, the database is updated daily with new records. Additional information: National License – Rules for Using the Collection of Databases Produced by Clarivate on the Web of Science (WoS) Platform
		Type: bibliographic and abstract database Access method: in the PUMS network and from personal devices via remote access Description: Medline database in the field of medicine and related sciences available on the Ebsco platform: indexes over 5200 selected world journals in about 40 languages, includes literature published from 1966 to the present, as well as a large part of literature from before that period, added to the database from converted printed indexes, records are indexed using NLM Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), is developed by the National Library of Medicine in the USA, the database is updated daily with new records. Additional information: User tutorials User Instructional Materials Instructional Materials – PICOT Tool
		Type: base bibliographic-abstract, full-text Access method: in the PUMS network and from personal devices via remote access Description: MEDLINE Ultimate (Ebsco) full-text database covering medicine and related sciences, including nursing, dentistry, healthcare systems, preclinical sciences, and veterinary medicine, allows access to: bibliographic descriptions with abstracts of articles from over 5200 journals, full text articles of almost half of the journals indexed in the Medline database, “Ahead of Print” resources for selected titles from key publishers, the database resources are indexed according to the medical thesaurus MeSH (Medical Subject Headings), offers the ability to create advanced search queries (using search index terms and based on natural language), Creating a personal account expands your options for working with search results on the EBSCOhost platform and in the Multisearch engine. Additional information: User tutorials User Instructional Materials Instructional Materials – PICOT Tool
		Type: video database Access method: open Description: a database of medical films, case photos, medical animations, live transmissions of surgeries, interviews, presentations and documents relating to all medical specialties, materials posted on the platform come from doctors, medical societies and universities, as well as from MEDtube's own production, all materials are moderated before publication, Using the portal is free after registering an account.
		Type: full-text database, e-journals Access method: in the PUMS network and from personal devices via remote access Description: electronic medical journals on the Nature Publishing Group platform: british dental journal Eye Nature medicine access to full texts includes currently published issues and archived issues in electronic versions.
		Type: full-text database, e-journals Access method: in the PUMS network and from personal devices via remote access Description: the Oxford Academic platform offers access to: over 120 journals from the Medicine collection of Oxford University Press, resources of current collections and archive issues since 1996. Additional information: Consortium license – scope and principles of sharing OUP publishing house resources covered by the license OUP 2026 Consortium License Open Publishing Program List of magazines in the publisher's offer (including those subscribed to by BG UMP) User tutorials
		Type: bibliographic and abstract database Access method: in the PUMS network and from personal devices via remote access Description: Contains a rich collection of materials in the field of medical sciences: articles from medical journals, books, doctoral and habilitation theses, conference materials, Polonica. registers Polish scientific, clinical and professional literature in the field of medical, pharmaceutical and health sciences, chronological coverage from 1979 to the present, database developed by the Main Medical Library in Warsaw (GBL), the database home page also allows you to search other GBL databases: Tez-MeSH, Biogram and the Catalog of journals indexed in PBL. Additional information: User tutorials User Guides [7,6 MB, PDF]
		Type: base bibliographic-abstract, full-text Access method: in the PUMS network and from personal devices via remote access Description: access to full texts or abstracts of articles from over 4 scientific journals in the field of medicine and health sciences, within the Health & Medical Collection database on the ProQuest platform, most of the database resources are indexed based on Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), advanced tools for searching the database and limiting search results, as well as working with search results, creating a personal My Session account also allows you to save documents and search results and set alerts. Additional information: User tutorials
		Type: bibliographic and abstract database Access method: open Description: PubMed, a database developed by the National Library of Medicine in the USA in the field of medicine and related sciences, allows you to search several literature resources: MEDLINE – the main pillar of the PubMed database: indexes over 5200 selected world journals in about 40 languages, includes literature published from 1966 to the present, as well as a large part of literature from before that period, added to the database from converted printed indexes, records are indexed using NLM Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), the database is updated daily with new records, journal articles and manuscripts deposited in PubMed Central (PMC), books, reports, databases and other documents deposited in NCBI Bookshelf, additional bibliographic descriptions of articles that are in the process of being prepared for inclusion in Medline, including those with an “Ahead of Print” status preceding the final publication of the article in the journal. Additional information: User tutorials
		Type: full-text database, e-journals Access method: open Description: free, full-text archive of over 3000 scientific journals from various publishers in the field of medicine, biomedicine and health sciences, also includes authored manuscripts that have been reviewed and accepted for publication in journals and preprint versions of articles that have been made public before peer review, Additional information: Alphabetical list of magazines User tutorials
		Type: base bibliographic and factual Access method: in the PUMS network and from personal devices via remote access Description: database in the field of organic, inorganic and organometallic chemistry, as well as chemical engineering and medical sciences, provides access to: information on almost 300 million chemical compounds and their physicochemical properties, obtained from articles and patents, data on over 60 million chemical reactions, both single- and multi-step, over 40 million records covering bioactivity and toxicity of compounds, information on over 20 unique pharmacological targets, bibliographic data from scientific articles published in over 16 peer-reviewed journals and book series from over 4000 publishers, patent data from all major patent offices in English-speaking countries and Asia. enables both natural language search and advanced structured, reactionary and text queries, with the possibility of combining them, includes the Reaxys Predictive Retrosynthesis module, which uses artificial intelligence algorithms to generate predictive retrosynthesis models. Additional information: User tutorials
		Type: bibliographic database Access method: open Description: The database includes complete bibliographic information along with subject classification according to MeSH about dissertations completed at the University since 1991. Searches in the database can be performed by word or index, in the fields: author, title, supervisor, department, year, Polish entry, English entry.
		Type: full-text database, e-books, e-journals Access method: in the PUMS network and from personal devices via remote access Description: Elsevier's Science Direct platform, under the national license, provides access to: over 1200 current journals with issues dating back to 1995 and 364 archival journals in the field of biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, computer science, engineering, health sciences, immunology and microbiology, mathematics, physics and astronomy, a multidisciplinary collection of over 2500 e-books published in 2011–2015. Additional information: Country License - Rules for using Elsevier publishing resources covered by the license Elsevier Open Publishing Program under the 2026 National License An individual user account allowing remote access to resources outside the academic network User tutorials List of books in the publisher's offer (including those subscribed to by BG UMP) List of magazines in the publisher's offer (including those subscribed to by BG UMP)
		Type: bibliographic-abstract, bibliometric database Access method: in the PUMS network and from personal devices via remote access Description: Scopus is an interdisciplinary database of abstracts and citations in the field of mathematics, natural sciences, engineering, medicine, humanities and arts, providing a comprehensive overview of the world's scientific literature. Scopus covers over 19 publication titles, including over 500 peer-reviewed journals (of which over 18 are available in the Open Access system), over 500 trade publications, 1 book series, 800 conference proceedings. The database contains over 400 million bibliographic records, of which 300 million have citations going back to 250, 46 million patent records, and indexes scientific websites. Additional information: National License - Scopus Database Usage Policy (Elsevier)
		Type: data analysis tool, add-on to the Scopus database Access method: logging in directly to the website SciVal using a personal account enabling the use of licensed Elsevier e-resources (created using an e-mail address in the university domain). creating a personal account for Elsevier platforms (the account is common for all Elsevier products): a new personal account must be registered on the SciVal website or another website with a licensed Elsevier product (Embase, Reaxys, ScienceDirect, Scopus), When registering an account, please use your personal email address in the university domain: @ump.edu.pl or @student.ump.edu.pl, the registration process and periodic verification of access outside the university network require confirmation by authorizing a personal e-mail address in the university domain, users with an account on Elsevier platforms can use their existing login details (if it was created on the university domain), Description: a tool for analyzing data contained in the Scopus database available under a national license, enables visualization of the achievements of scientific institutions, comparison with other units, assessment of potential collaborators and partners, as well as analysis of trends in the world of science, Additional information: User Instructional Materials National License - Scopus Database Usage Policy (Elsevier)
		Type: full-text database, e-books, e-journals Access method: in the PUMS network and from personal devices via remote access Description: The SpringerLink platform offers access to full texts of multidisciplinary collections under a national license: over 2200 current Springer journals, with access to full archives of over 1000 titles, almost 200 thousand e-books, including: almost all of Springer's English-language books from the first editions in the 2019th century to 1815 inclusive, as well as a collection of archival German-language books from 2004–XNUMX. Additional information: Country License - Rules for using Springer Nature publishing house resources covered by the license Springer Open Publishing Program under the 2026 National License User tutorials List of books in the publisher's offer (including those subscribed to by BG UMP) List of magazines in the publisher's offer (including those subscribed to by BG UMP)
		Type: full-text database, e-journals Access method: in the PUMS network and from personal devices via remote access Description: The Taylor & Francis Online platform offers access to: a collection of approximately 170 medical journals published by Taylor & Francis, current issues of magazines and collection archives, since 1997, Additional information: Consortium License – Scope and Rules for Sharing Taylor & Francis Publishing Resources Covered by the License Taylor & Francis 2026 Consortium License Open Publishing Program List of magazines in the publisher's offer (including those subscribed to by BG UMP)
		Type: full-text database, Evidence-Based Medicine Access method: in the PUMS network and from personal devices via remote access Description: The UpToDate database is a comprehensive source based on evidence-based medicine, prepared in such a way that the physician receives concise, practical answers to the questions asked. The information contained in the database is updated every 4 months, however, if significant changes occur, the text in the database is updated immediately. Texts indexed in the database are peer-reviewed. The database is created in cooperation with approx. 4000 outstanding international specialists and contains over 8 clinical issues assigned to 500 medical specialties. UpToDate allows you to: access to the most up-to-date knowledge in a given medical specialty helps make decisions about diagnosis and treatment, including information on the effectiveness, dosage and interactions of individual drugs. Login to the UpToDate database Each user of the UpToDate database is required to create an individual profile and log in using their login and password. By logging into individual user accounts, UpToDate allows you to: get CME points accreditation for each user (0,5 from each search in the database) download the UpToDate app on up to 2 additional devices: smartphones/tablets Registration will only be required once, after which the single sign-on system will automatically recognize the registered user.
		Type: e-journals Access method: in the PUMS network and from personal devices via remote access Description: access to full text articles from two medical journals published by Via Medica: Obesity Treatment Forum (formerly: Metabolic Disorders Forum) – the current year of the magazine and archive issues from 2019, Clinical Gastroenterology. Advances and Standards – the current year of the magazine and archive issues from 2024.
		Type: bibliographic-abstract, bibliometric database Access method: in the PUMS network and from personal devices via remote access Description: Web of Science is a bibliographic-abstract and bibliometric database, containing so-called citation indexes. Web of Science provides access to citations registered in the indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) – an index of citations to articles from natural science and engineering journals since 1945. Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) – an index of citations to social science journal articles since 1956. Art & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) – an index of citations to articles from arts and humanities journals since 1975. Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI) – an index of citations of conference materials in natural sciences and engineering since 1990. Conference Proceedings Citation Index – Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH) – an index of citations to conference proceedings in the social sciences and humanities since 1990. The citation indexes contain abstracts, basic bibliographic information, and citation information for journals on the Master Journal List (the Philadelphia List), which includes approximately 16 journals. Documents found in the database can be organized (e.g. by field, document type, author, source title, year of publication, conference title, institution, language, country) and sorted (by: date, number of citations, relevance (accuracy), first author, source title, institution, conference title). Additional information: Instructions: determining the number of citations and h-index values in the Web of Science Core Collection – as of: 18.07.2024/888/XNUMX [XNUMX KB, PDF] National License – Rules for Using the Collection of Databases Produced by Clarivate on the Web of Science (WoS) Platform
		Type: data analysis tool, add-on to the Web of Science database Way access: logging in directly to the website InCites using a personal account linked to the Web of Science platform (established using an email address in the university domain). creating a personal account on the Web of Science platform: a new account must be registered via the Register option on the Web of Science platform, When registering an account, please use your personal email address in the university domain: @ump.edu.pl or @student.ump.edu.pl, the registration process and periodic access verification are only possible from devices connected to the university computer network – on the premises of the University of Medical Sciences or via remote access, users with an account in Web of Science can use their existing login details (if it was created using an email address in the university domain), Recommended procedure in case of problems accessing InCites: logging out of your account on the Web of Science platform, clearing browser data, logging in directly through the InCites website using your personal Web of Science account details. Description: a tool for analyzing data contained in the Web of Science databases – SCIE, SSCI, A&HCI, JCR and ESI, available under a national license, allows for comparing the scientific achievements of researchers and institutions, analysing the use of journals in institutions, developing research strategies and supporting publication and staffing-administrative decisions. Additional information: User Instructional Materials User tutorials National License – Rules for Using the Collection of Databases Produced by Clarivate on the Web of Science (WoS) Platform
		Type: full-text database, e-books, e-journals Access method: in the PUMS network and from personal devices via remote access Description: The Wiley Online Library platform offers access to multidisciplinary collections under a national license: almost 500 current scientific journals, with years since 1997, archived years from 1997 to 2021, almost 900 titles included in the Full Collection in 2019-2021, 2450 e-books published in 2009 and 2015. Additional information: Country License - Rules for using John Wiley & Sons, Inc. resources covered by the license Service for authors User tutorials List of books in the publisher's offer (including those subscribed to by BG UMP) List of magazines in the publisher's offer (including those subscribed to by BG UMP)

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