Echocardiography: Find Articles

Here is a selected list of Echocardiography journals available online and/or in print at the Marvin library:

BMC Cardiovascular Disorders

Cardiovascular Ultrasound

Echocardiography

European Journal of Echocardiography (Open Access content only)

Heart and Lung 

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

A selected list of Medical journals available online or in print at the Marvin library:

Lancet

Nature - (from 1950 - present)

New England Journal of Medicine - (from 1812 - present)

Science

• CINAHL stands for Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature

• Used by medical professionals world-wide for the most up-to-date medical information
• Best to use if looking for the more specific technical information about a disease, treatment or clinical trial
• Search by MeSH (Medical Subject Heading) for best results
• Some results will overlap with CINAHL

• Located at www.pubmed.gov.  The same as MedLine with Full Text but the screen and searching features are different. 
• Available freely anywhere. 

Differences between PubMed, MEDLINE and PMC

What is the Grey Literature?

In general, grey literature publications are non-conventional, fugitive, and sometimes ephemeral publications.

They may include, but are not limited to the following types of materials:

• reports (pre-prints, preliminary progress and advanced reports, technical reports, statistical reports, memoranda, state-of-the art reports, market research reports, etc.)
• theses, conference proceedings
• technical specifications and standards
• non-commercial translations
• bibliographies
• technical and commercial documentation
• official documents not published commercially (primarily government reports and documents

Source:  The New York Academy of Medicine, http://www.greylit.org/about

Consider these other search words when looking up information on Echocardiography

• Echocardiography
• Echo test
• Heart and diagnostic test
• Stress test and heart
• Echocardiology
• ECG

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