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Subject Specific Databases
- CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window CINAHL® Complete is a comprehensive nursing & allied health research database. Covers nursing, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. Offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters. Basic Searching Tutorial
- Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) Reviews including Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews This link opens in a new window Provides evidence-based information on clinical topics for health professionals. Our license allows two concurrent users at a time.
- ICE Video Library This link opens in a new window International Clinical Educators provides high-quality patient videos arranged by impairment or diagnosis. Access requires a personal account. Register on site for general access, or Request Access to ICE Faculty Zone
- MEDLINE (Ovid) This link opens in a new window MEDLINE® contains millions of citations, derived from biomedical and life science journals, indexed by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Full text is available. MEDLINE goes back to 1946.
- PubMed This link opens in a new window PubMed comprises more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.
- ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window Full-text abstracts and articles from all fields of science. Most journal articles become available immediately after peer review and before the printed versions are issued. Additionally, this database offers multimedia features not available in print journals, such as video, audio and spreadsheet files.
Interdisciplinary Databases
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
- JSTOR This link opens in a new window JSTOR is a digital library of academic content in many formats and disciplines. The collections include top peer-reviewed scholarly journals as well as respected literary journals, academic monographs, research reports from trusted institutes, and diverse primary sources.
- PsycARTICLES This link opens in a new window PsycARTICLES®, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. It contains more than 225,000 full-text articles from 119 journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA).
- PsycINFO 1640's--Current This link opens in a new window PsycINFO, from the American Psychological Association (APA), contains more than 5 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines. 97 percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed.
Reference Databases/Sources
- Credo General Reference This link opens in a new window Provides full-text online versions of hundreds of top quality reference books in all major subjects. Includes bilingual and biographical dictionaries.
- Oxford Reference: Premium This link opens in a new window Oxford Reference offers full text access to numerous dictionaries and encyclopedias by Oxford University Press as well as selected titles from the Oxford Companion series.
Health Sciences Websites
- PubMed Central PMC is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).
Database Search Tutorial Videos
- What is in PubMed? (3 min) Learn what you can find in PubMed, and how it got there.
- PubMed: Find Articles on a Topic (1 min) A brief interactive tutorial on how to find articles on a topic using PubMed.
- PubMed Subject Search: How It Works (4 min) A brief tutorial on how automatic term mapping and explosion enhance your PubMed search.
- MEDLINE from EBSCO: Searching (3 mins) This tutorial demonstrates the features of the MEDLINE database on the EBSCOhost interface, including basic searching and narrowing results on the result list.
- CINAHL: Basic Searching (<1 min) This tutorial demonstrates the basic searching features of the suite of CINAHL databases on EBSCOhost.
- CINAHL: Advanced Searching (4 min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu2I8ZqOgHw
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