Selected Nursing and Health Resources
Databases
CINAHL Plus with Full-Text - the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health (PASCAL) 
CINAHL Plus with Full-Text is the authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. This database provides indexing for 2,719 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health and full text coverage for more than 620 journals with coverage dating back to 1937.
Nursing Resource Center (DISCUS)
Nursing Resource Center is designed to meet the needs of nursing students and includes important titles from Gale and Macmillan along with nursing-specific texts from Thomson Delmar. Additionally, relevant journal results from top publications in the field and animated depictions of the human anatomy complement the core reference texts.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (PASCAL)
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides full text access to more than 550 scholarly journals and contains abstracts for over 800 titles. Topics focus on many medical disciplines with strong coverage in nursing and allied health fields. Content includes the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide which covers 1,300 generic medications, natural products, and vaccines.
Medline (PASCAL)
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 allows users to search abstracts from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.
The Merck Index
The Merck Index contains 10,955 monographs describing significant chemicals, drugs, and biological substances. The entries are not a listing of Merck & Co., Inc. products, but rather cover a wide range of compounds, which have been selected on the basis of present or historic importance and interest.
Science Direct
This database covers life, physical, technical and social sciences. It gives access to over 1,200 journals - the majority providing full text coverage.
Wiley InterScience
Nearly 300 full-text journal titles in a variety of disciplines including Business, Life and Earth Sciences, Chemistry, Computer Science, and more. Includes current issues and recent backfile.
Health Reference Center-Academic (DISCUS)
Use this database to find articles on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, HMOs, Prescription Drugs, etc. The material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only.
Health & Wellness Resource Center (DISCUS)
A comprehensive resource that provides integrated access to medical, health, and wellness information. The material contained in this Resource Center is intended for informational purposes only.
PubMed
PubMed is a service provided by the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. PubMed provides references and abstracts for many health-related articles, as well as links to the full text of freely-available online articles.
Expanded Academic ASAP
Database for research in all academic disciplines including astronomy, communications, current events, history, humanities, law, psychology, religion, social sciences, sociology, and the general sciences and technology. Publications: National news magazines, general interest magazines, and the New York Times. Coverage combines indexing, abstracts, full text, and images.
Academic Search Premier (PASCAL)
The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.
High Wire Press
Hosts and maintains the web versions of a variety of journals in science, technology and medicine. Free online full text articles.
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