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Academic Search Complete (Ebsco) is a multidisciplinary index giving access to articles in over 8000 journals with many available in full text.
Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale Cengage Learning) is a general database with indexing for journal, magazine and newspaper articles, with many of the articles available full text.
Google Scholar provides a search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles.
Wilson Select Plus (FirstSearch) is a general database that contains full text articles from popular and scholarly journals and magazines.
Alternative Health Watch (Ebsco) contains over 50,000 complete articles and thousands of embedded images dealing with alternative remedies for health problems.
Health Reference Center (Thomson Gale) provides indexing for magazines and journal articles dealing with allied heath, medicine, and nursing subjects with full-text access to many of articles.
Health and Wellness Resource Center (Gale Cengage Learning) is an index to full text articles and citations, along with definitions and directories, as well as links to health sites and government databases.
Health Source: Consumer Edition (Ebsco) is a full text collection of journal articles on consumer health information.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic edition (Ebsco) provides full-text access to articles in scholarly journals focusing on nursing and allied health professions.
MedicLatina is a full text Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals published by Latin American medical publishers.
Medline (Ebsco) is a database that covers all areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing. There is no full text access, but most records include substantial abstracts.
Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. The series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership . Coverage begins with Volume 9 to present.
Nursing Resource Center A comprehensive collection of reference, periodical, and multi-media content that correlates to college nursing programs.
PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's search service with access to 9 million citations in MEDLINE and Pre-MEDLINE (with links to participating on-line journals).
SciFinder is an access point to several Chemical Abstracts databases providing chemical literature from over 10,000 journals, 1907-present; organic and inorganic substance information (CAS registry); patents; structure diagrams; and more. New users start here.
Scirus: for scientific information only searches more than 150 million science-related Web sites, along with 11 journal databases with full text articles often included.
SpringerLink Journals is the most comprehensive online collection of scientific, technological, and medical journals; some are available full text and are clearly marked as such.
Wiley Intersciences provides access to articles published in journals of international scholarly and professional societies, some are available full text.
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The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy Seventeenth Edition
Search the manual by keyword or table of contents.
NetLibrary is a collection of electronic books (eBooks) especially selected to meet the needs of the university curriculum.
Gale Virtual Reference Library - Access the content of reference books electronically, anytime, anywhere.
Encyclopedia of Aging
Online Books: Medicine
Online Books: Human Anatomy
Stat!Ref is a full text collection of 35 medical and drug reference titles, including the Merck Manual and Stedman's Medical Dictionary.
Recommended search engines:
Scirus: for scientific information only Filters search results to return only peer-reviewed and/or authoritative sites and journal articles. Includes advanced search and search tips.
Google Scholar Under development; searches peer-reviewed literature (articles, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports). Includes a frequently-asked-questions section, advanced search and search tips.
Recommended Web sites:
American Medical Association
Search for consumer information, AMA certified doctors, hospitals, physician-related data, etc.Avian Flu
Free bird flu news, commentary and timelines from Nature.Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Communicable Disease Surveillance & Response (CSR)
Maintained by the World Health Organization.Harvard School of Public Health: Health Literacy Studies
Infectious Diseases Society of America
The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) represents health care professionals who specialize in infectious diseases. IDSA’s purpose is to improve health by promoting excellence in patient care, education, research, public health, and prevention relating to infectious diseases.MEDLINEplus
A wealth of health information presented by the National Library of Medicine. Includes drug information, an encyclopedia and directories.National Center for Health Statistics
National Institute for Literacy, Special Collections: Health Literacy
OMNI
Gateway to internet resources in Health and Medicine.
Includes BioResearch, featuring resources in biological and biomedical sciences and VetGate, featuring resources in animal health.Pillbox was developed to aid in the identification of unknown solid dosage pharmaceuticals.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Includes links to the Center for Food Safety, and the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.World Health Organization
Research tools (including statistics), news, links and more.