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Nursing / Health Professions
Indexes & Databases
Academic Search Premier
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Academic Search Premier
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Provides full text for nearly 4,000 scholarly publications of which 3,100 are peer reviewed. Academic areas of study include: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
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Coverage: From 1982
Licensed Number of Users: 20
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Premier database for nursing and allied health literature. Includes references to journals, American Nurses' Association and National League for Nursing publications, nursing standards of practice, and critical paths. Updated monthly.
« Hide Description Clinical Pharmacology [info] Clinical Pharmacology
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Clinical Pharmacology provides access 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 and investigational drugs.
« Hide Description Cochrane Library [info] Cochrane Library
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
A collection of evidence-based medicine databases. Assesses the effectiveness and appropriateness of health care interventions--including medications, surgery, and education--through systematic review of scientific literature. Updated quarterly.
« Hide Description Combined Health Information Database [info] Combined Health Information Database
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Covers health promotion, health information, and health education materials. Emphasis on AIDS, STD, and TB education; Alzheimer's disease; arthritis and musculoskeletal and skin diseases; cancer prevention and control; complementary and alternative medicine; deafness and communication disorders; diabetes; digestive diseases; epilepsy education and prevention; health promotion and education; kidney and urologic diseases; maternal and child health; medical genetics and rare disorders; oral health; prenatal smoking cessation; and weight control.
« Hide Description CRIS - Current Research Information System [info] CRIS - Current Research Information System
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Coverage: 1968-present
A searchable database of U.S. Department of Agriculture funded research. Covers on-going and recently completed research projects in agriculture, food and nutrition, and forestry. Search by keyword, investigator, agency, institution, state, and project status and type as well as by classification codes. Database records include listings of publications resulting from the funded research.
« Hide Description ERIC - Education (EBSCO) [info] ERIC - Education (EBSCO)
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Coverage: From 1966
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) provides a database of journal and non-journal education literature for K-12 teachers, school administrators, education faculty, school psychologists and education students. ERIC is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. This database contains more than 1.2 million citations going back to 1966. More than 110,000 full-text non-journal documents (from years 1993-present) are included in the database. The EBSCO version connects to many full-text journal articles through Linked Full Text and Article Linker.
« Hide Description Evidence Based Medicine Reviews [info] Evidence Based Medicine Reviews
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Evidence Based Medicine Reviews is a collection of four databases: 1. ACP Journal Club; 2. Cochrane Controlled Clinical Trials Register; 3. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and 4. Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE). This provides a definitive resource for electronic information in the evidence based medicince (EBM) movement.
« Hide Description FSTA: Food Science & Technology Abstracts [info] FSTA: Food Science & Technology Abstracts
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Coverage: 1969+
Index to over 1400 journals as well as standards, conference proceedings, theses, patents, and books in subject areas including food chemistry and microbiology, food product development, food safety, and nutrition. Updated weekly.
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Health Source: Consumer Edition WEB
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Health Source: Consumer Edition WEB
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
EBSCO Publishing's consumer health information database, Health Source: Consumer Edition, is now available in a new interface format on the Web. Health Source: Consumer Edition WEB showcases one of EBSCO Publishing's newest features: searching by specific source type. On entering the search screen, users are presented with a source selection list, where they can opt to search by all sources, a combination of sources or just one source. The source list includes options to search such sources as pamphlets, reference books, periodicals, book reviews, clinical reports and drug information.
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Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
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Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides nearly 540 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for over 570 journals. This product offering also includes USP Pharmacopoeia DI: Volume II Advice for the Lay Patient and Stedman's Medical Dictionary - providing users with access to terminology of genetics, oncology, pediatrics, pulmonology, emergency medicine, bacteriology, and laboratory medicine. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong, including full text from Clinical Nursing Research, 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 Family Nursing, Journal of Holistic Nursing, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Journal of Nursing Management, Journal of Society of Pediatric Nurses, Nurse Practitioner, Nursing, Nursing Diagnosis, Nursing Ethics, Nursing Forum, Nursing Inquiry, Nursing Management, Patient Care for the Nurse Practitioner, RN, Western Journal of Nursing Research and many more.
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IBIDS database
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IBIDS database
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Coverage: From 1986
Produced and maintained by the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, this database indexes journal articles on dietary supplements. Vitamin, mineral, phytochemical, botanical, and herbal supplements are included. Information is presented on the use, function, growth, and production of these supplements, their metabolism and chemical composition, and surveys of use. Searches can be restricted to peer reviewed records. Searching is by author, title, and keyword. Abstracts are present for some entries. Records in IBIDS come from the following databases: AGRIS International, AGRICOLA, and MEDLINE. Keyword searches: food and food science, medical sciences, nutrition, nutrition-medical sciences, science
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IngentaConnect
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IngentaConnect
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Coverage: Coverage from 1988.
Index to the tables of contents of 17,000 English language periodicals. Covers all disciplines. Updated daily. NOTE: Full text access available ONLY with subscriptions to individual titles. Check your library for holdings.
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MEDLINE
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MEDLINE
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Coverage: 1966-present
Index to more than 3,600 journals covering all areas of clinical and experimental medicine, nursing, dentistry and health administration. Updated weekly.
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Nursing & Allied Health Collection: Basic
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Nursing & Allied Health Collection: Basic
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Designed for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers, this database provides full text for 100 journals covering the areas of nursing, biomedicine, health sciences, consumer health and allied health disciplines.
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OT Search
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OT Search
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Not Available
Occupational Therapy Bibliographic System (LAC Campus only or via password).
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Patty's Toxicology
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Patty's Toxicology
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Patty's Toxicology presents comprehensive toxicological data for industrial compounds from metals to synthetic polymers. Information for each compound includes CAS numbers, RTECS numbers, physical and chemical properties, threshold limit values (TLV's), permissible exposure limits (PEL's), maximum workplace concentrations (MAK), and biological tolerance values for occupational exposures (BAT).
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PsycARTICLES
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PsycARTICLES
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Coverage: From 1985
PsycARTICLES™ is a database of full-text articles from 53 psychology journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. The database includes all material from the print journals with the exception of ads and editorial board lists. The database is updated daily.
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PsycINFO
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PsycINFO
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Index to the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines, including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas. Coverage includes references and abstracts to over 1,300 journals in more than 20 languages, and to book chapters and books in the English language. The database includes information from empirical studies, case studies, surveys, bibliographies, literature reviews, discussion articles, conference reports and dissertations. Updated weekly.
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PubMed
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PubMed
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Coverage: 1966-
Developed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), PubMed is a major medical database. It provides access to bibliographic/abstracting information from MEDLINE, plus out-of-scope citations from certain MEDLINE journals; citations that precede the date that a journal was selected for MEDLINE indexing; and some additional life science journals that submit full-text and receive a qualitative review by NLM. Included are links to many sites with full-text articles.
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PubMed Central
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PubMed Central
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Coverage: 1970-
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).
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SPORTDiscus
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SPORTDiscus
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Coverage: From 1800
SPORTSDiscus covers all aspects of sports. Subjects include biomechanics, coaching, engineering, physical therapy, and physiology. Indexes over 2,000 journals as well as books, theses, and non-print resources. Updated monthly.
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TOXNET
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TOXNET
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Cluster of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas. Includes TOXLINE, Hazardous Substances Data Bank, ChemIDplus chemical information database, and other resources.
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