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| Medicine and Health POWERSEARCH | Searches all of the following databases simultaneously:
Academic Search Complete ,
Alt-Health Watch ,
CINAHL,
General Science Abstracts,
Health Source: Consumer Edition,
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition,
Medline,
Pre-CINAHL,
PsycArticles, and
PsycInfo.
How to Search This Database |
| SCOPUS | Multidisciplinary database covering scientific, technical, medical and social science literature - over 15,000 peer-reviewed titles from 4,000 publishers. Abstracts to over 33 million records reach from present back to 1966 with selective linking to full text. Specifically, SCOPUS covers topics in health, life sciences, agricultural and biological sciences, chemistry, physics, mathematics, engineering, earth and environmental sciences, social science, psychology, and economics, business, and management. How to Search This Database |
| PubMed, developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the U.S. National Library of Medicine, provides access to citations and abstracts from biomedical literature. Over 10,500 journals are indexed by PubMed with coverage back to the 1950s. Links to full-text articles at other journal Web sites are provided for many of the citations within PubMed. PubMed includes the Medline database as well as in-process citations. How to Search This Database | |
| Science Citation Index | ISI Web of Knowledge (formerly- ISI Web of Science) provides seamless access to three citation indexes: the Science Citation Index, the Social Sciences Citation Index, and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index. These can be searched together or separately. Approximately 8,500 of the most prestigious research journals are indexed with abstracts within the Web of Science. Complete bibliographies are included for each citation allowing for cited reference searching. How to Search This Database |
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Provides full text articles on fitness, pregnancy, medicine, nutrition, diseases, public health, occupational health and safety, alcohol and drug abuse, HMO's, prescription drugs, etc. from 1980 to the present. Help pages are available for basic and advanced searches. Searches can be limited to refereed (scholarly) publications, or to one particular journal. A list of titles covered is available by clicking on Title List. The material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only. How to Search This Database |
| The Cochrane Library | The Cochrane Library is a collection of specialized databases that contain high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making on the effects of interventions in health care. Currently there are approximately 560,000 records in the Cochrane Library which are both searchable and browsable. How to Search This Database |
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Consumer Health Complete (CHC) provides access to easily understandable health and medical information. Consumers can search and browse within medical encyclopedias, popular reference books, and magazine articles. This databases also features more than 700 physician-generated videos with full-text transcripts and 248 animations. In addition, CHC includes the Clinical Reference System and the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide for up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug information. How to Search This Database |
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GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. How to Search This Database |
| Salud en Espanol |
Salud en Español is EBSCO's interface designed for the everyday consumer of Spanish-language health care information. Salud provides convenient access to easily understandable health and medical information. Salud en Español es la interfase de EBSCO diseñada para el usuario cotidiano de información sobre el cuidado de la salud en Español. Salud provee un acceso conveniente a información médica y de salud de fácil comprensión. How to Search This Database |
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Health and Wellness Resource Center provides access to medical and health related information. Including the Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, Health and Wellness Resource Center delivers up-to-date reference material as well as full-text magazines, journals, and pamphlets from over 800 authoritative medical sources. Links to pertinent health related Web sites are included. The Health and Wellness Resource Center covers 1980 to the present.List of the titles indexed by Health and Wellness Resource Center. How to Search This Database |
| CogNet Library (cognitive and brain sciences) | Provides full-text access to books and journals relating to cognitive and neurological sciences. It is also is an essential resource for those interested in primary research for understanding the nature of the human mind. The publication dates of the materials vary, but generally cover the past 15 years. |
| Contains detailed information on more than 180 different conditions and the conventional and natural treatments used to treat them, over 200 herbs and supplements, plus drug-herb and drug-supplement interactions for more than 75 drug categories. | |
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