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A handy-dandy list of databases and other materials for faculty in specific subject areas!

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Databases Recommended for Nursing

  • CINAHL Complete Best Bet
    CINAHL Complete is the most comprehensive source of full-text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 1,300 journals indexed in CINAHL. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index, with no embargo. CINAHL Complete is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing & allied health literature and supports nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators, and researchers.
  • Nursing and Allied Health Database (ProQuest) Best Bet
    ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source provides users with reliable health care information covering nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, and much more. This database is designed to meet the needs of researchers at health care facilities as well as nursing and allied health programs at academic institutions. It also provides evidence-based nursing information from The Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI).
  • R2 Digital Library Best Bet
    Search the full text of hundreds of medical, nursing, and allied health books. Includes related videos.
  • Alt HealthWatch
    Alt HealthWatch focuses on multiple perspectives of complementary, holistic, and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. Full-text content comes from more than 180 international peer-reviewed and professional journals, magazines, reports, proceedings, and association and consumer newsletters, plus hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research, and book excerpts.
  • CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website offers a variety of options for researching current health issues including, up-to-date information on current diseases and illnesses, vaccine information, general health information, safety, and wellness. Information is available not only for consumers, but for health care professionals as well. Access to statistical data and CDC publications is available.
  • Consumer Health Complete
    Consumer Health Complete (CHC) is a comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content, including full text from many health reference books and encyclopedias and thousands of health reports as well as physician-generated videos and hundreds of medical images and diagrams. CHC provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic, and integrated medicine. This full-text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs and alcohol, fitness, nutrition and dietetics, children's health, men and women's health, and more.
  • Consumer Health Database
    From sports injuries to women's health, from food and nutrition to midwifery, from eye care to dentistry. It includes important general medical journals such as The Lancet and The New England Journal of Medicine as well as a strong selection of consumer and news magazines.
  • eSkeletons Project
    The eSkeletons Project is a website with digitized images and animations of human and primate skeletons for the study of comparative anatomy. Students can view regions of skeletons from any orientation as well as muscle and joint information.
  • Gale OneFile: Nursing & Allied Health

    Nursing & Allied Health Collection provides over 10 million articles With a strong emphasis on full text titles cited in CINAHL. This collection's current and authoritative content will help nursing professionals already working in the field, as well as students pursuing a nursing-focused curriculum in researching specialized care, treatment, and management of all sorts of patients.

  • Health & Medical Collection (ProQuest)
    Offers users vital clinical, biomedical, and health journals.
  • Health & Wellness Resource Center
    This comprehensive consumer health resource provides authoritative information on the full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to in-depth coverage of alternative medical practices.
  • Health Reference Center (Gale)
    Health Reference Center Academic integrates millions of articles from a wide range of full-text nursing and allied health journals, magazines, newsletters and select consumer health information sources with full-text reference works and hundreds of health-related multimedia.
  • Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
    Health Source provides over 500 scholarly full-text journals focusing on nursing, allied health fields, and many medical disciplines. Patient education sheets from the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide are also included.
  • Healthcare Administration Database (ProQuest)
    This high-demand healthcare management content provides the most reliable and relevant information on a wide range of topics.
  • MedicLatina
    MedicLatina provides access to the full text for more than 140 peer-reviewed medical journals in native Spanish.
  • MEDLINE with Full Text (at EBSCOhost)
    MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.
  • Merck Manual (Home Edition)
    The Merck Manuals Home Edition offers trusted, concise and correct discussions of diagnosis and therapy, written in everyday language.
  • Merck Manual (Professional Edition)
    Merck Manuals have been standard medical reference sources for over 100 years providing detailed information on virtually all disorders, complete with discussion of symptoms and current therapy.
  • Public Health Database (ProQuest)
    Ideal starting point for public health information. Covers a wide variety of disciplines ranging from social sciences to business to biological sciences.
  • Sage Research Methods
    SAGE Research Methods is a web-based research methods tool that covers quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods. Researchers can explore methods and concepts to help design research projects, understand a particular method or identify a new method, and write up research. Sage Research Methods focuses on methodology rather than disciplines, and is of potential use to researchers from the social sciences, health sciences and other research areas.
  • Science Reference Source

    Science Reference Center provides full text for hundreds of science magazines, journals, reference books and high-quality videos. The database also contains science experiments, curriculum-aligned lesson plans, and a vast image collection.

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  • CINAHL Complete
    CINAHL Complete is the most comprehensive source of full-text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 1,300 journals indexed in CINAHL. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index, with no embargo. CINAHL Complete is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing & allied health literature and supports nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators, and researchers.
  • MEDLINE with Full Text (at EBSCOhost)
    MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.
  • Nursing and Allied Health Database (ProQuest) Best Bet
    ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source provides users with reliable health care information covering nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, and much more. This database is designed to meet the needs of researchers at health care facilities as well as nursing and allied health programs at academic institutions. It also provides evidence-based nursing information from The Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI).
  • R2 Digital Library Best Bet
    Search the full text of hundreds of medical, nursing, and allied health books. Includes related videos.
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