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CINAHL with Fulltext  (EBSCOhost)
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The world´ s most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 520 journals indexed in CINAHL. Includes coverage of over 1200 professional journals in nursing, 17 allied health disciplines, and health sciences librarianship, with coverage as far back as 1982. In addition, CINAHL offers access to healthcare books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software in nursing, audiovisuals, and book chapters. CINAHL with Headings contains CINAHL-specific headings.


Nursing Full Text PLUS  (OVID)
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A collection of 10 full-text online nursing journals hosted by Ovid. A variety of the top nursing journals available today with 100% searchable full text. Included in the collection is the Journal of Nursing Administration, the American Journal of Nursing, and Nursing Research.


Science Direct Health and Life Sciences College Edition   (Elsevier)
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Health & Life Sciences from Science Direct contains over 25% of the world's science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information. Science Direct's extensive and unique full-text collection covers authoritative titles from the core scientific literature, including high-impact factor titles such as THE LANCET, Cell and Tetrahedron.  It contains more than 1,100 full-text, scholarly journals,  coverage begins with 1995.


PubMed Central  (Government)

PubMed Central is a digital archive of life sciences journal literature, developed and managed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). This database consists of full text, indexes and abstracts.


Blackwell Synergy Full Journal Collection  (Blackwell Publishing)
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This database holds the full-text of articles from over 850 journals, the majority of which are published by Blackwell on behalf of international scholarly and professional societies. The subjects covered range across Medicine, Science, Social Science and the Humanities. Nearly 1 million articles to discover!


Sage Journals Online  (Sage Publishing)
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SAGE Publications publishes over 460 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine. SAGE Journals Online is the delivery platform that provides online access to the full text of individual SAGE journals. Full text of journal articles is from 1999 – Present for most journals.


MEDLINE
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, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.This database corresponds to the print indexes Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing Index.
  • MEDLINE (Ebscohost)   User guide for Ebsco
    Linked full-text to library's resources.
  • MEDLINE (PubMed)   "PubMed is a project developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library ofMedicine (NLM), located at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It has been developed in conjunction with publishers ofbiomedical literature as a search tool for accessing literature citations and linking to full-text journals at Web sites of participating publishers." --Medline
  • MEDLINE (FirstSearch)   User guide for Firstsearch
    Indexing and abstracts with linked full text. Updated monthly. Connections to Library catalog.
Also see PubMed central.


AltHealth Watch  (EBSCOhost)
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Alt HealthWatch is a full text and image database comprised of publications focused on the area of complementary and alternative approaches to health including holistic counseling and rehabilitation counseling. The large body of international resources includes peer-reviewed journals, reports, and proceedings, association and issue-oriented newsletters, professional publications, consumer magazines, background pamphlets and reference material. The database provides in-depth coverage on both professional and consumer levels across the full spectrum of subject areas addressed by "ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE."


International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS)  (Government)

The International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS) database provides access to bibliographic citations and abstracts from published, international, and scientific literature on dietary supplements. Users can choose to search the Full IBIDS Database, a subset of Consumer Citations Only or Peer Reviewed Citations Only.


PsycARTICLES  (EBSCOhost)
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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.


PsycINFO  (EBSCOhost)
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PsycINFO contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, all in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. Full-text for articles linked to EBSCO fulltext databases.


CANCERnet  (Government)

CANCERnet provides information on different cancers and their treatments and more.


CANCERLIT  (Government)

"CANCERLIT® is a bibliographic database that contains more than 1.4 million citations and abstracts from over 4,000 differentsources including biomedical journals, proceedings, books, reports, and doctoral theses. Produced by the National CancerInstitute's International Cancer Information Center, CANCERLIT has been in existence for more than twenty years andcontains references to the vast realm of cancer literature published from 1963 to the present. CANCERLIT is updated withmore than 8,000 records every month." --CANCERLIT


ProceedingsFirst  (FirstSearch)
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An index of worldwide conference proceedings. Provides citations of every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received at The British Library.


Health Services and Sciences Research Resources  (Government)

HSRR is a searchable database of information about research datasets and instruments/indices employed in Health Services Research, and the Behavioral and Social Sciences. The database provides descriptions of research resources including links to PubMed and links to sources for additional information or access to the resources.


PubChem  (Government)

PubChem provides information on the biological activities of small molecules. It is a component of NIH's Molecular Libraries Roadmap Initiative. PubChem includes substance information, compound structures, and BioActivity data in three primary databases, Pcsubstance, Pccompound, and PCBioAssay, respectively. Pcsubstance contains more than 61 million records. Pccompound contains more than 25 million unique structures. PCBioAssay contains more than 1600 BioAssays.


Nature.com  (Nature Publishing)
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Nature is an interdisciplinary science 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. International weekly science journal. Besides the journal the site provides videos and podcasts.

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