Literature/Research Searching
A CMU Health Library Card will be REQUIRED to access library resources, either on or off campus. If you do not have a library card, here is how to obtain one.
- Clinical Key - A clinical search
engine with over 1,000 medical titles and over 600 eJournals
- EBSCOhost (All Databases)
- Health Business Elite - Over 10,000 eJournals
- Nursing & Allied Health Collection - Over 300 eJournals
- CINAHL with Full Text -
Over 500 eJournals
- Endnote Basic - An online bibliographic citation management system
- ERIC - An online library of education research and information
- Google Scholar - Scholarly literature
- Medical Library Services: All Databases
- Ovid MEDLINE - Medical and nursing literature from 1946 to present
Also contains PreMEDLINE, EBM Reviews (ACP Journal Club, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, DARE…), etc. - PubMed - Medical and nursing literature
- Research Books / eBooks - Available
Titles from Knowledge Services Department
- TRIP (Turning Research into Practice) - Trip is a clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily
find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care.
Literature Searches
Literature Searches are available to all CMU Health, Covenant HealthCare, and St. Mary's of Michigan staff or affiliated members. Hospital employees may request information on any patient care topic or job related policy or project.
Our staff is available to provide instruction and/or assist with literature searches during normal business hours.
- CMU College of Medicine: 8:00 am - 4:30 pm, M-F
- St. Mary's of Michigan Branch: 8:00 am - 12:00 pm, M-F
Various ways you can submit literature searches:
- Online Search Request Form
- Print Form:
- Phone: CMU College of Medicine 989-746-7577, St Mary's of Michigan 989-907-8204
- Fax: CMU College of Medicine 989-746-7582, St. Mary's of Michigan 989-907-8616
- In-person at either of our two library locations
Library staff is also available to provide instructions on the various library computer databases, if the user wishes to do their own searching.
If you would like to set up instruction or have additional questions, please call us at 989-746-7577 or e-mail us at cmedlibrary@cmich.edu.