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Medicine & Health

Health & Wellness Resource Center
Offers access to full-text nursing and allied health journals, internet websites, encyclopedias and other reference sources including the Medical and Health Information Directory and PDR Family Guides. Includes an alternative health module and multimedia library of 700+ videos from the Healthology, Inc.'s consumer health library. Updated daily by new periodical and newspaper articles.
 
Health Reference Center Academic
An advanced interface to the full-text nursing and allied health journals dating back to 1980 found in the Health & Wellness Resource Center. Also includes current editions of newletters, pamphlets, newspaper articles, topical overviews and reference books. Does not include reference sources or the Alternative Health suite of resources.
 
Nursing & Allied Health Source
Provides indexing for over 700 titles with 580 of those in full text. The wide range of health subjects covered includes cytology, nursing, nutrition, oncology, pediatric care, pharmacology, public health and radiology.
 
Health Source: Academic Edition
This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 additional journals and information on over 1000 medications, natural products and vaccines. This database is updated on a daily basis.
 
Nursing Reference Center
Provides information on conditions and diseases through a graphical interface. It includes the CINAHL Nursing Guide, which features care sheets and lessons, legal cases, research instruments and full-text documents; Patient Education, Health Nursing News and access to reference sources such as F.A. Davis’s Laboratory & Diagnostic Tests with Nursing Implications, F.A. Davis’s Drug Guide for Nurses and Taber’s Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary. Also offers access to over 100 Continuing Education Unit (CEU) modules. (EBSCO)
 
Health Source: Consumer Edition
Provides information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Features searchable full text for nearly 160 journals including Consumer Reports on Health and Men's Health. Also includes drug information, as well as abstracts and indexing for nearly 180 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications.
 
MEDLINE With Full Text
Offers the full text of nearly 1,200 of the most used medical journals indexed in MEDLINE. Full-text coverage goes back to 1965.
 
MEDLINE
Digital version of the print indexes Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature and International Nursing Index. Includes thousands of records with substantial abstracts.
Coverage 1993 to present. Updated semimonthly.
 
CINAHL Plus Full Text
Provides full text access to more than 560 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 600,000 records dating back to 1937. Covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines.
 
Magill's Medical Guide
Online version of the five-volume medical encyclopedia that covers "disorders, treatments, procedures, specialties, anatomy, biology, and issues."
 
Thomson Healthcare Series

Covers drugs, diseases, acute care, toxicology, alternative medicines and patient education. Find comparative drug summaries, drug interactions and identify drugs using images. Also find emergency care guides and treatment practices.

 
Physicians Desk Reference (PDR)
Searchable index of hundreds of drugs and medications. Search by product name, manufacturer, product category, indications, contraindications, side effects, or drug interactions. Includes product photos.
 
PsycArticles
Covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research in psychology. Contains more than 25,000 searchable full text articles from 50 journals and chapters from selected books published by the APA. It contains all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each of the 50 journals. Journal coverage spans from 1894 to the present.
 
PsychFIRST - See Information Desk (Library 2nd floor) for access information.
Contains citations and summaries of journal articles, chapters, books, technical reports, and dissertations in psychology and related disciplines. Over 55,000 references are added yearly. Includes international material selected from periodicals written in over 25 languages. 259,000+ records from over 1500+ journals from the most recent three years are searchable plus updates for the current year. Updated weekly.
 
Testing & Education Reference Center
Helps prepare students for specialized tests for college, graduate school, the military or trade school. Includes test preparation tools for the Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT), NCLEX Exams, EMT Exams and more.
 
Credo Reference
Reference source consisting of more than 160 sources from a variety of publishers, including Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, Mosby's Dental Dictionary, Mosby's Handbook of Herbs & Natural Supplements, Mosby's Emergency Dictionary, Dictionary of Medical Acronyms & Abbreviations, Macmillan Dictionary of Toxicology, and more. Provides 1.8 million entries and 40 million cross-reference links.
 
Academic Search Complete
A multidisciplinary database that provides access to 10,900 journals and other publications, over 5,300 of which contain full-text and 4,400 of which are peer-reviewed. The majority of full text articles offer searchable PDF format. Content dates back as far as 1865.
 
Virtual Reference Library
Consists of the following titles: Beacham's Guide to Endangered Species of North America, Biology, Encyclopedia of Small Business, Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine, Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer, Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders, Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America, St. Jame's Encyclopedia of Popular Culture and World of Earth Science.
 
Oxford Reference Online Premium
Searchable collection of over 175 full text dictionaries and encyclopedias published by Oxford University Press. Health coverage includes The Oxford Companion to the Body, A Dictionary of Food & Nutrition, Concise Medical Dictionary, An A-Z of Medicinal Drugs, The Oxford Companion to Medicine, A Dictionary of Nursing, A Dictionary of Public Health, and The Oxford Dictionary of Sports Science & Medicine.
 

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Last revised 28 July, 2008

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