Remote Access to UM-St. Louis Library Databases

A valid UM - St. Louis student Gateway ID and password are required to search UM-St. Louis Databases from off campus locations.

Database Remote Access | Gateway ID | Optometry Databases

Database Remote Access from the UM-St. Louis Libraries homepage
http://www.umsl.edu/library/

1. Locate Databases in the left-hand list on the Library homepage.
2. Click on either:
  • Sorted Alphabetically
  • Sorted by Subject - Click on the desired subject area ( Health Sciences) to view a list of database choices.
3. Click on Search this Database or the desired database (i.e., Medline, 1950-Present). On the next page click on the Search link. (i.e. Search Medline 1996-)
4. Enter your Gateway ID and password.

Database Remote Access through MyGateway

  • If you are already logged into MyGateway click on the Library tab then click on http://www.umsl.edu/library/
  • Follow Steps 1-4 above.
    You may be asked to enter your Gateway ID and password again.
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Gateway ID

  • Your UM - St. Louis Gateway ID and password are required to search any of the Electronic Databases from off campus locations.
  • For additional assistance, please call Computing Technology Support at (314) 516-6034.

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Optometry Databases

VisionCite-   VisionCite (1984-present) is the Citation index of the Illinois College of Optometry Library. Over 210,000 articles are indexed and 110 periodicals. (VisionCite is not full text.)
Medline (from OVID)   Premier source for bibliographic and abstract coverage of the biomedical literature.
See the OVID Abstracts Tutorial for the OVID Web Interface for search tips useful when searching any OVID database.
PubMed-   Free access to Medline from the National Library of Medicine.
Dissertation Abstracts 1861-   More than 1.2 million ciations (with abstracts since 1980) to doctoral degree dissertations.
Web of Science 1995-   Web Of Science is comprised of the following segments: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index: Copyright Institute for Scientific Information 2000.
 
See Resources Sorted Alphabetically for a comprehensive list of additional databases.

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Updated January 12, 2006