Evidence-Based Practice
for the Helping Professions


Access to Databases for Payment

I had intended that Evidence-Based Practice for the Helping Professions would be useful to practitioners who may not be affiliated with a hospital, large clinic, or university. In such an event, you will need to get access to some databases on a pay-as-you-go basis or through your local library. The table below summarizes how individuals still can get access to bibliographic databases that cost money.

Bibliographic Databases that Charge a Fee

Database Vendor Access to Whom? Contact Procedure Notes

Dialog

Individuals can get access at a per-document rate www.dialog.com or call 800-334-2564 No access to Cochrane nor PsycInfo
EBSCO Sold only to libraries at a cost in the thousands. 800-653-2726 or www-us.ebsco.com/online/Login.asp? Access to 8,285 journals. A representative told me that your local library may grant you access to EBSCO from your home.
FirstSearch Sold only to libraries at a cost in the thousands 1-800-848-5800 or e-mail oclc@olcl.org Wisconsin residents get free access through badgerlink though other states and individual libraries may do the same.
Ovid
(SilverPlatter)
Will sell access to individual databases www.ovid.com and go to sales, pricing, databases Access to CINAHL, PsycInfo, Soc. Abstracts, EMBASE Psychiatry, CancerLit etc.

 

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