Digital library on Medicine

Access Medicina

A resource from McGraw Hill specialising in Health Sciences that contains full-text electronic books in Spanish. It features over 137 titles in Medicine and Health Sciences across 41 specialties. It includes videos of medical procedures, a database of medical cases, diagnostic tools, drug interactions, dosage calculators, X-rays, and more.

Access Medicina also includes the manual Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, with daily updates of its content.

Cochrane Library

A database focused on evidence-based medicine. It collects systematic reviews based on controlled clinical trials and effectiveness summaries.

International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10)

A reference tool in Catalonia for coding causes of death. Until December 31, 2017, it was also used for diseases and health-related issues addressed in most primary care centres, emergency services, and occupational health, among others.

Clinical Key Student Medicina

Learning platform developed collaboratively by students, teachers and academics from all over the world. It combines a large amount of contents, videos and a powerful search engine as well as collaborative study tools. It contains more than 154 books on Medicine and Health Sciences in Spanish, from more than 50 specialities. It allows you to create notes, notes and highlight information that can be shared with other people. It includes more than 480 videos and 50,000 high quality images that can be used to create links and personalised presentations with this content. Register before consulting the platform.

Dictionaries for Life and Health Sciences (TermCat)

Terminological dictionaries developed by TERMCAT or with its guidance, grouped into major thematic sectors. In the field of health, you can find dictionaries related to integrated care, cancer, anatomy, COVID-19, drugs, rare diseases, and more.

Spanish Bibliographic Index in Health Sciences (IBECS)

A database containing references to articles from over 200 scientific-health journals published in Spain. It includes publications on pharmacy, psychology, dentistry, nursing, and various branches of medicine such as public health, epidemiology, pediatrics, otorhinolaryngology, endocrinology, nutrition, and rheumatology.

Eureka

A service providing full-text access to a selection of books in health sciences. It allows users to view texts and make notes, among many other tools.

Dynamed

A bibliographic database that includes resources for evidence-based clinical practice, such as general descriptions and recommendations, precise search results, graphics and images, specialised content, expert reviewers, and more.

Health & Medical Collection (ProQuest)

A biomedical database containing around 3,000 journal titles, mostly with electronic full-text access. Many of the indexed articles are available in different languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French, etc.

Spanish Bibliographic Index of Health Sciences (IBECS)

Database containing references to articles from more than 200 scientific-health journals published in Spain. It includes publications on pharmacy, psychology, dentistry, infectious diseases and various branches of medicine such as public health, epidemiology, paediatrics, otorhinolaryngology, endocrinology and nutrition, and rheumatology.

JoVE

JoVE Science Education is a collection of videos dedicated to teaching basic laboratory techniques through simple and understandable demonstrations.

LWW Health Library Basic Sciences

A digital platform for medical students offering full-text titles, over 6,000 questions, 130 videos, and more than 340 clinical cases to aid learning and preparation for clinical practice.

PubMed

A search engine for biomedical literature, including life sciences, chemical sciences, and bioengineering, among others, known as Medline when distributed by providers. PubMed is a free resource developed and maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), located at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

SpringerProtocols

A database with over 58,000 laboratory protocols in biomedicine and life sciences. Both researchers and students can find the appropriate protocol for their laboratory setup.

APA PsycArticles
Full-text database of journal articles published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and other related organizations. It collects scientific journals specialised in Psychology, Neuroscience and Medicine. 

ÍnDICEs CSIC
Portal to the CSIC databases, this is a multidisciplinary bibliographic resource compiling and disseminating primarily research articles published in Spanish scientific journals, replacing "Bases de datos CSIC: ICYT, IME, ISOC.”

OpenGrey: system for information on grey literature in Europe
Compiled by the Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique, it contains bibliographic citations of grey literature generated in Europe, including science, technology, biomedicine, economics, social sciences, and humanities. Includes technical or research reports, doctoral theses, conference proceedings, official publications, and other types of grey literature. Open access.

Scopus
Significant both for its content and additional services: bibliometrics, author and affiliation identification. Scopus is the world’s largest peer-reviewed abstract and citation database, updated daily. It contains information in 40 languages, with strong non-Anglophone coverage (6,900 European journals, with over 50% of titles from Europe, South America, and Asia-Pacific).

Web of Science (WoS)
A predominantly Anglophone portal managed by Clarivate Analytics, offering access to a set of multidisciplinary bibliographic and bibliometric databases. Enables thematic searches as well as cited works and/or authors, and provides bibliometric indicators (citation counts, h-index, journal impact factor, etc.).

History of Medicine

History of Science, Technology & Medicine
Integrates four bibliographies: Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science, Current Bibliography in the History of Technology (Technology and Culture), Bibliografia Italiana di Storia della Scienza, and Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine.

Science Archive Service
An online service enabling the location, preservation, and dissemination of the documentary heritage of science, technology, and medicine in Catalonia and Catalan-speaking regions. It channels scientific and technical archival materials towards the archive network and serves as a point for gathering and distributing information. Open access.