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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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