Online Databases:
Health and Sciences


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Academic Search Premier


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"The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier contains indexing for over 8,000 publications, with full text for more than 4,450 of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles."
Expanded Academic ASAP


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For college-level and adult researchers and advanced high school students
(1980 - present)

* Comprehensive periodical database covering all academic disciplines
* Millions of full-text articles from 2000+ scholarly, refereed and professional journals and selected general interest magazines
* Indexing of additional professional and general periodicals

Academic OneFile


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Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of all academic disciplines, Academic OneFile is authoritative and comprehensive. Millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, including full-text coverage of the New York Times since 1995. Updated daily.
CINAHL Plus with Full-Text

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"CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive nursing & allied health research database, providing full text for more than 750 journals indexed in CINAHL. Of those, 426 are not found with full text in any version of Academic SearchT, Health Source or Nursing & Allied Health CollectionT. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index - with no embargo."
Computer Source


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"This database contains more than 300 full text journals and magazines covering topics such as computer science, programming, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, information systems, robotics, and software. Computer SourceT provides a balance of full text technical journals and full text consumer computer titles."
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

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* A full-text, open-access source of peer-reviewed or editorial-quality journal articles
* Includes journals that report primary results of research or overviews of research results to a scholarly community

"The aim of the Directory of Open Access Journals is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact."
Health and Wellness Resource Center (HWRC)


On-Campus | Remote Access
For advanced middle school students through adults
(1980 - present)

* Portal to health information from a variety of sources for general users; includes "Alternative Health Module" content
* Full-text articles from 400 health, nursing, allied health and medical journals, including 30+ alternative health periodicals
* Health-related articles from 2,200 general interest magazines
* Medical encyclopedia articles, pamphlets, drug information and hospital directory, including alternative health reference titles and herbal medicine information
* Access to health news and key health Web sites

Health Reference Center-Academic


On-Campus | Remote Access
For college-level and other adult researchers
(1980 - present)

* Health and medical periodicals and reference information for academic researchers
* Full-text articles from 600+ health, nursing, allied health and medical journals
* Health-related articles from 1,500 general interest magazines
* Articles from medical reference titles and pamphlets

Health Source: Consumer Edition


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  • provides access to nearly 80 full-text, consumer health magazines
  • includes searchable full text for current, health-related pamphlets and more than 130 health reference books
  • contains more than 5,100 Clinical Reference Systems reports (in English and Spanish); Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names; and Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary
  • Health Source Nursing Academic Edition


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    "This resource provides more than 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong, including full text from Creative Nursing, Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing, Issues in Mental Health Nursing, Journal of Advanced Nursing, Journal of Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing, Journal of Clinical Nursing, Journal of Community Health Nursing, Journal of Nursing Management, Journal of the Society of Pediatric Nurses, Nursing Diagnosis, Nursing Ethics, Nursing Forum, Nursing Inquiry, and many more. In addition, this database includes the Clinical Pharmacology database, providing 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 and new drugs."
    LexisNexis Academic


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  • Provides access to more than 6,000 news, business, and legal sources
  • Offers full-text of newspaper, magazine, journal, and wire service articles; television and radio broadcast transcripts; blog postings and other Web publications; biographical information; foreign language news publications; law reviews; federal and state cases and codes; Canadian and European Union court cases and legislation; and patents
  • Also includes LexisNexis Company Dossier; company profiles; SEC filings; country profiles; and Shepard's Citations service for federal and state court cases going back to 1789

  • MEDLINE


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    "MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree numbers, tree hierarchy and explosion capabilities to search abstracts from over 4,800 current biomedical journals. Included are citations from Index Medicus, International Nursing Index, Index to Dental Literature, HISTLINE, SPACELINE, PREMEDLINE, AIDSLINE, BIOETHICSLINE, and HealthSTAR. Users of MEDLINE will be excited to learn that this is now a 'full text database'."
    Military & Government Collection


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    "Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles."
    Nature


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    Full-Text: 1997 - present
    "Nature is a weekly international journal publishing the finest peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology on the basis of its originality, importance, interdisciplinary interest, timeliness, accessibility, elegance and surprising conclusions. Nature also provides rapid, authoritative, insightful and arresting news and interpretation of topical and coming trends affecting science, scientists and the wider public."
    Nursing Resource Center


    On-Campus | Remote Access

    Designed for nursing students, the Nursing Resource Center brings together in an easy-to-use interface disease and drug overviews, care plans, relevant journal results and animated anatomy and physiology diagrams to complement the core encyclopedia texts. The information is written in accessible language for students completing class assignments and preparing for clinicals as they learn how to care for and treat patients. Search results are returned in tabs that correspond to steps in the nursing process.

    PLOS
    (Public Library of Science)


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    "PLOS is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource." Open access to 7 online peer-reviewed journals in the fields of Biology, Medicine, Computational Biology, Genetics, Pathogens and Neglected Tropical Diseases.
    PubMed

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    "PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 11 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."
    Science In Context


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    Gale Science in Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of today's most significant science topics. The new solution merges Gale's authoritative reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, experiments, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.

    Science Online


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    Full-Text: 1997 - present
    "The flagship Science Magazine site provides the full text of the journal's news stories, research reports, and commentary articles in a searchable database, enhanced by additional information, links, multimedia, and user services, as well as a database of scientific-product information."

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    Last modified: 9/16/10