Nursing and Allied Health

 

  • Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition - This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.  

  • Health Source: Consumer Edition - A collection of consumer health information providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.  provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines.  

  • CINAHL (Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature) - the authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. This database provides indexing for 2,719 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health.

  • MEDLINE - MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.

  • Well-Connected - Provides reports on common health problems and diseases.  Covers the latest information on treatments, risk factors, causes, diagnostic tests, and preventive measures.

  • PsyInfo - From the American Psychological Association (APA), contains more than 2 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s.

  • PsyArticles - a definitive source of searchable full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains more than 40,000 articles from 56 journals - 45 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 11 from allied organizations.

Ovid

  • ERIC - The Educational Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and resources.

  • Oxford Reference Online - a huge range of fully-indexed, extensively linked, up to date, and cross-searchable medical and subject reference works.

  • Consumer Health Complete (CHC) - An interface designed for the everyday consumer of health care information. Consumers can search and browse within medical encyclopedias, popular reference books, magazine articles, and more.

  • Alt HealthWatch - Focus is on complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. Full text articles for more than 180 international, and often peer-reviewed journals and reports.  Indexing and abstracts going back as far as 1984, and full text going back as far as 1990.

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