For Reference questions use:
Stedman's
Medical Dictionary from EBSCOhost: Health Source: Nursing/Academic
Edition
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Suggested Health Databases:
CINAHL
(Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature)
Provides indexing and abstracting
for over 1,600 current nursing and allied health journals. Publications
date back to 1982 and contain over 700,000 records.
Health
Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
From the EBSCOhost: "Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides
nearly 580 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines.
Also featured are abstracts and indexing for over 615 journals. This database
is updated on a daily basis."
MEDLINE
from EBSCOhost
From the web site: "MEDLINE® provides authoritative medical information
on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system,
pre-clinical sciences, and much more."
PubMed
through NLM (National Library of Medicine)
From the web site: "PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine,
provides access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's
and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing
full text articles and other related resources. "
Quick
Tips for using PubMed
NLM (National Library
of Medicine)Gateway
From the web site: "The NLM Gateway is a Web-based system that lets users
search simultaneously in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library
of Medicine (NLM)"
Difference
between Medline/PubMed/NLM Gateway
Alt-HealthWatch
from EBSCOhost
Alt-HealthWatch focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic,
and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It includes international
perspectives.
LexisNexis
Academic - Medical
This database provides articles covering a wide range of medical topics and
healthcare issues.
Ovid's
Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins Biomedical Journal Full Text
Collection
The Ovid Biomedical Journal Collection contains “140 premier nursing,
clinical and biomedical journals,” covering all medical disciplines, in
addition to nursing.
Cochrane
Library
Contains articles reviewing the effects of healthcare, systematic reviews,
economic evaluations of health care interventions, healthcare technology assessments,
and a bibliography of controlled trials.
Clinical
Pharmacology
Clinical Pharmacology provides access to up-to-date, concise, and clinically-relevant
drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional
supplements, over-the-counter products, new drugs, and investigational drugs.
Other Databases and Web Sites Containing
Health-Related Information:
Academic Search Premier from EBSCOhost
Academic Search Premier provides full text for over 1,250 academic, social sciences,
humanities, general science, education, and multi-cultural journals.
Note: EbscoHost uses the Library of
Congress Subject Headings!
PsycInfo from
EBSCOhost
From the Web site: "PsycINFO® contains more than 1.8 million citations
and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and
technical reports, all in the field of psychology."
PsycARTICLES
From the web site: "PsycARTICLES® contains more than 25,000 full-text
articles from 42 journals published by American Psychological Association and
allied organizations. Coverage includes general psychology and specialized
basic, applied, clinical, and theoretical research in psychology."
AIDS
Search is "compiled by the National Library of Medicine
(NLM) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services."
Biomedical
Annual Reviews
GenBank
(National Institutes of Health)
From the web site: "The GenBank sequence database incorporates publicly
available DNA sequences of more than 105 000 different organisms, primarily
through direct submission of sequence data from individual laboratories and
large-scale sequencing projects."
CQ
Researcher from Congressional Quarterly
"CQ Researcher is the perfect answer for people who need a place to begin
research on current topics. Users may browse through articles in the current
issue or search for past articles using words, dates or other criteria. The CQ
Researcher is the only publication that delivers in-depth original reporting
week in and week out on the topics that affect you and the world around you." (from
CQ Library)
AgeLine from AARP
From the web site: "AgeLine is:
A searchable electronic database containing detailed summaries of publications
about older adults and aging, including books, journal and magazine articles,
research reports, and videos. "
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