Alt Health Watch

This alternative health database provides full text for 180 publications in the collection, including full text for many peer-reviewed journals. Alt Health Watch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine dating back to 1990.

CINAHL Plus with Full Text

CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 560 journals indexed in CINAHL. Of those, nearly 400 have cover-to-cover indexing in CINAHL, and of those, more than 230 are not available with full text from any other EBSCO database. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index - with no embargo. With more than 600,000 full-text articles dating back to 1937, CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature.

Consumer Health Complete

Consumer Health Complete (CHC) is the single most comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content. It is designed to support patients’ information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. 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 & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children’s health, men & women’s health, etc. CHC offers a unique search interface designed to call attention to the full text content available from many important source-types, and provide an intuitive means for searching this specific information.

Natural & Alternative Treatments

Natural & Alternative Treatments contains detailed information on more than 180 different conditions and the conventional and natural treatments used to treat them, over 200 herbs and supplements, plus drug-herb and drug-supplement interactions for more than 75 drug categories.

Nursing Collection and Nursing Collection 2

Called "Journals@Ovid" on the page. This database indexes hundreds of nursing and related journals, but includes full text for only 28 major nursing journals. If you want to restrict your search to those 28 journals, click the box for "Ovid Full Text Available." References and an outline are included for each article, and links to all graphics (if any) are available, although graphics must be printed separately. Date coverage is 1996-present.

Health Reference Center - Academic

"Provides an integrated collection of general interest health and fitness magazines, medical and professional periodicals, reference books and pamphlets." The reference book items are primarily dictionary definitions of medical terms and diseases/syndromes and encyclopedia articles related to health and medicine. Full text is approximately 50% for periodical articles. The reference book and pamphlet citations tend to come first in the results, so you can skip past them if all you want is articles - or you can limit your search to articles with full text or to refereed (scholarly) publications. Date coverage for most periodicals is 1997-present.

Health Source: Consumer Edition

This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition features searchable full text for nearly 150 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis.

This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis.

Health & Wellness Resource Center

Includes articles from approximately 500 magazines and journals, hundreds of pamphlets, and reference sources such as the Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine. Full text is over 65%, and images are available for approximately half the sources. It is possible to limit your search to full-text articles and/or to refereed (scholarly) publications. Date coverage is generally 1997-present.

LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe Medical Databases

There are three databases here: Medical News, Medical Journals, and Abstracts. Medical News is a full-text database of news items from major newspapers, newsletters, newswires, and magazines pertaining to health and medicine. It also includes full text of newsletters published by FDC Reports Inc., but these must be searched separately. Items as recent as the present day can be retrieved from this database. Medical Journals is a full text database of 20 journals related to medicine, somewhat slanted to legal aspects of medicine and public health policy (nothing explicitly about nursing). "Abstracts" is the MEDLINE database produced by the National Library of Medicine, and is the comprehensive international (though English-language dominant) database of medical literature. It is bibliographic only and does not include full text. A time period (Today, Previous week, Previous month, Previous six months, Previous year, Previous two years, Previous five years, Previous ten years, All available dates) must be chosen for every search, regardless of database chosen - Today, Previous week, and Previous month are effective only in the Medical News database.

* For these databases, go to LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe and click the box labeled Medical.

Approximately 200 of the 1,200 journals covered in this database concern medicine, allied health, medical specialties (including geriatrics, pediatrics, and psychiatry, but not nursing per se), neuroscience, and pharmacology/toxicology. Full text is over 90%, depending on the subject area. Journal coverage overwhelmingly favors Elsevier publications, although some other important journals are included. Selecting a subject area on the search screen narrows the search to the journals assigned to that subject area. Date coverage is mostly 1995-present, although the vendor is adding deep backfiles by title cluster. To get to a search screen, click the Search button below the ScienceDirect logo at the top of the screen.

Collection of databases, subject and geography portals (e.g. "Psychology"; "Toxicology"; "Spain"; "Honduras") geared toward the study of Latin American health issues. Databases include LILACS; MEDLINE; HISA; LEYES; MEDCARIB; BBO; WHOLIS; DESASTRES; others...

IMBIOMED (Index of Latin American Biomedical Journals)

IMBIOMED offers access to pdf copies of many Latin American biomedical periodicals for free. Users must register first, though at the time of this writing this process is easy. An English version is in development, but the most mature IMBIOMED experience is in Spanish.

The premier database in medicine, produced by the National Library of Medicine, indexes and abstracts over 9,000 journals in medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care, and pre-clinical sciences. Some periodicals are not in English. Date coverage is 1966-present. * MEDLINE can also be accessed through FirstSearch or through LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe by clicking the box marked Medical and then selecting "Abstracts" from the menu. If you can’t get through the proxy server, try the National Library of Medicine MEDLINE page.

Indexes and abstracts over 200 magazines and journals in medicine and consumer health. Date coverage is 1988-present.
* For this database, go to FirstSearch and select MDX Health from either pull-down menu (Select a Topic or Database, or Select a Database to Search).

Medicine is classification R in the Library of Congress system. It breaks down into sub-categories as follows:

R	Medicine (general), history of medicine
RA	Public health, public aspects of medicine
RB	Pathology
RC	Internal medicine, including psychiatry and geriatrics
RD	Surgery
RE	Ophthalmology
RF	Otorhinolaryngology
RG	Obstetrics and gynecology
RJ	Pediatrics
RK	Dentistry
RL	Dermatology
RM	Therapeutics and pharmacology
RS	Pharmacy and materia medica
RT	Nursing
RV	Botanic, Thomsonian, and eclectic medicine
RX	Homeopathy
RZ	Other systems of medicine

These are the areas of the book collection to browse for nursing and medicine books.

• Dorland’s Illustrated Medical Dictionary, REF R121 .D73
  
• Mosby’s Medical, Nursing, and Allied Health Dictionary, REF R121 .M89
  
• Stedman’s Medical Dictionary, REF R121 .S8
  
• Taber’s Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, REF R121 .T18
  
  
  
• Conn’s Current Therapy, REF RM 101 .C87

  Authoritative diagnostic and therapeutic standards and best practices in 293 categories of therapy. Each article is signed and includes the institution at which the contributor practices.

• The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, REF RC 55 .M4

  Comprehensive handbook of diseases and other medical conditions, including etiology, symptoms and signs, diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment. Topics can be difficult to find and it is generally necessary to use the index. The language is highly technical, but The Merck Manual of Medical Information, REF RC 81 .M535, covers many of the same topics in layperson’s language.

• Physician’s Desk Reference (PDR), REF RS 75 .P5

  The ultimate reference source on prescription and non-prescription drugs. Lists manufacturers, brand and generic names, product categories, and product information, and includes a photographic product identification guide. Available (free) through the web at www.pdr.net.

• Davis’s Drug Guide for Nurses, REF RM 301.12 .D44
  
• Lippincott’s Nursing Drug Guide, REF RM 301.12 .L57
  
• Mosby’s Drug Guide for Nurses, REF RM 301.12 .S55
  
• Prentice-Hall Nursing Drug Guide, REF RM 125 .N78
  
• Saunders Nursing Drug Handbook, REF RM 125 .S28
  

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This is the megasite for medicine in the U.S. Links under "Health Information" include access to the MEDLINE database (MEDLINE/PubMed), a reference database on health topics and prescription drugs (MEDLINEplus), a directory of health organizations (DIRLINE), a catalog of books, journals, and AV materials in the National Library of Medicine (LOCATORplus), and an archive of full-text journal articles (PubMed Central - the selection of journals is small but growing), among many other things. Links to many other databases and publications are listed under "Library Services," and announcements of NLM research programs and other activities are also available.

The homepage for the Mayo Clinic includes patient information on diseases and prescription medicines, first aid and consumer health, and FAQs about a variety of medical conditions written by Mayo Clinic specialists.

A clearinghouse for information about "complementary and alternative healing practices in the context of rigorous science." Includes links to research reports, other publications, and searchable databases. The NCCAM is a branch of the National Institutes of Health.

Provides research reports, project descriptions, and other information on the services and activities of this branch of the National Institutes of Health.

"Here you can find information on more than 6000 rare diseases, including current research, publications from scientific and medical journals, completed research, ongoing studies, and patient support groups." The ORD is a branch of the National Institutes of Health.

Details the projects, initiatives, and reports of the Public Health Foundation in Washington DC. "The Public Health Foundation (PHF) provides the public health community with information on and about the infrastructure of the nation's public health system and tracking health objectives and health indicators."

An information site with key topics, fact sheets, news services, a law library, publications, reference, and a list of links.

Useful only for its links, under "hosted web sites," which also include a number of email mailing lists and electronic discussion groups.

Lists of nursing journals, other publications, continuing education, job listings, and links to other items of interest to nurses.

A page of links for nurses, also featuring job listings and continuing education opportunities.