LibGuides: Electronic Resources: Apps & Mobile Device Access

Apps & Mobile Device Access to Electronic Resources

The following website contains links to and reviews of a wide variety of free or ad supported healthcare apps.

The following electronic resources are accessible though mobile apps or through websites that are designed for mobile devices:

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
A full text article database covering journals from a wide variety of academic disciplines, including the humanities, social sciences, and applied sciences.
AccessMedicine This link opens in a new window
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Online collection of medical reference titles and textbooks. Includes case files, images, videos, practice guidelines, diagnostic tools, and more.
AccessPharmacy This link opens in a new window
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Online collection of pharmacy reference titles and textbooks. Includes case studies, care plans, self-assessment, and NAPLEX review.
CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window
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Provides full text access to hundreds of nursing and allied health journals indexed in the CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature). Additional materials include Evidence-Based Care Sheets and Quick Lessons which provide concise overviews of diseases and conditions and outline the most effective treatment options.

Family Practice Notebook App
A free rapid access, point-of-care medical reference for primary care and emergency clinicians. Content is updated monthly with systematic literature reviews and conferences.

Isabel PRO This link opens in a new window
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A web-based diagnosis and decision support system that provides search results from various web resources, including PubMed.

Medline Plus Mobile
Authoritative health information written at a patient level (consumer health). Covers diseases, conditions, medications, wellness topics, and the latest news. Foreign language and low-literacy handouts available for many topics. Mobile access is available for free through your mobile device's internet browser.

Micromedex This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to evidence-based information about drugs, toxicology, diseases, acute care, and alternative medicine to aid in clinical diagnosis and treatment decisions. The Boxer Library's subscription includes access to the Reproductive Effects add on module.

mobilePDR
A free drug information app and search tool with access to thousands of drug summaries from the publisher of Physicians' Desk Reference. Free registration is required for access to the app.

PsycARTICLES This link opens in a new window
A database of full text, peer-reviewed scientific articles in psychology.
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
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A database of peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science & mental health.

PubMed Mobile
A database that includes over 22 million biomedical citations from MEDLINE. Please note, PubMed Mobile does not provide access to RFUMS's full text content. For access to full text articles, please use the non-mobile version of PubMed. Mobile access is available for free through your mobile device's internet browser.
Read by QxMD
A free app that helps keep you up-to-date on medical literature by providing a platform to browse medical research. The app allows you to customize the literature displayed in the app by medical specialty and journal title.
SciFinder Mobile
With SciFinder Mobile you can quickly find references to published research for a topic of interest, information on a substance of interest, including nomenclature, molecular formula and properties, and references to published research from a scientist or company of interest.

Note: You must first create a SciFinder username and password in order to access the mobile website. Instruction on creating a username and password can be found here.

UpToDate This link opens in a new window
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An evidence-based point-of-care clinical decision support tool.