Welcome to the Scholarship & Discovery Library Course Guide for Pritzker Students & Mentors. Web and library resources are compiled to help you complete your scholarly work. Our home page lists general resources; track-specific resources are on each tab.
Provides access to citations and full text articles from the biomedical literature (medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care, and the preclinical sciences). PubMed includes MEDLINE (mid 1960s-present), OLDMEDLINE (1950-1965), in-process citations (not yet indexed).
Authoritative, multidisciplinary content covers over 10,000 of the highest impact journals worldwide, including Open Access journals and over 110,000 conference proceedings. You'll find current and retrospective coverage in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, with coverage available to 1900. Includes the Science Citation Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Web of Science is especially useful for its citation linking.
Scopus is an interdisciplinary, bibliographic database that indexes the contents of more than 15,000 journals in the physical sciences, engineering, earth and environmental sciences, life and health sciences, social sciences, psychology, business, and management.
Scopus also features cited references and can be searched for articles that cite a specific article.
The Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools - Expenditures and Results (RePORTER) is an electronic tool that allows users to search a repository of NIH-funded research projects and access publications and patents resulting from NIH funding.
Contents include clinical trials, experimental treatments, experimental and new diagnostic procedures, patient enrollment, patient accrual, patient recruitment, and all study phases. Information is provided about a trial’s purpose, who may participate, locations, and contact information.
The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) is a group of general medical journal editors who have developed the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals, which established guidelines for the format of manuscripts submitted to their journals.
Contact Information
Dr. Vineet Arora
Assistant Dean for Scholarship and Discovery,Pritzker School of Medicine
Deb Werner
Director of Library Research in Medical Education
773-702-8552