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Databases
CINAHL Plus with Full-Text - the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health
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.
OVID Nursing Collection II
OVID Nursing Collection II provides full-text access to premier nursing journals published by Lippincott. This collection provides some of the most respected nursing titles for clinical decision and research support. The database provides 100% searchable full text and unlimited access to all tables of contents and bibliographic citations for every journal.
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source provides users with reliable healthcare information covering nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, and much more. This versatile database is designed to meet the needs of researchers at healthcare facilities as well as nursing and allied health programs at academic institutions. ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source provides abstracting and indexing for more than 700 titles, with over 580 titles in full-text.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
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
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.
Nursing Resource Center
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.
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.
DISCUS — Health Reference Center Academic
- Good resource for basic health and medical information.
- Includes full-text from journals, pamphlets, and newspapers.
- Includes information from the Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
APA Style- American Psychological Association Style Guide
Internet Resources
CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Implements credible information on protecting the health and safety of people.
National Library of Medicine Gateway (Useful link for research.)
Introduction to Evidence-Based Medicine - This resource is produced by the Duke University Medical Center Library and the Health Sciences Library at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Go Local South Carolina - Use this resource to find local health care information and providers and link to MedlinePlus health topics.
Medline Plus - This resource contains a medical encyclopedia and dictionary as well as other useful resouces for the LAY PERSON.
Print & Electronic Resources
List of Current Nursing Journals (available at USCA)
List of All Databases by Subject
Last modified on: March 24, 2008, at 06:40 AM