Nursing and Medicine

Recommended Databases

CINAHL PLUS WITH FULL TEXT
Description: Provides complete coverage of the professional literature in nursing, 14 allied health disciplines and health sciences librarianship. CINAHL incorporates over 500 journals.
Coverage: 1937-

MEDLINE
Description: MEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine's bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. The MEDLINE file contains bibliographic citations and author abstracts from approximately 4,600 current biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 foreign countries. Coverage is worldwide, but most records are from English language sources or have English abstracts.
Coverage: 1966 -
Mosby's Nursing Consult
Description: Mosby's Nursing Consult brings the leading resources together in one integrated online service to help nurses efficiently find answers to pressing clinical questions. It contains drug information, patient handouts, medical journals, health reference books, nursing news, clinical updates and more.
Coverage: 2001- ; updated daily

Nursing and Allied Health Collection
Description : Designed for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers, this database provides full text for nearly 400 journals covering the areas of nursing, biomedicine, health sciences, consumer health and allied health disciplines. All full text titles included in Nursing & Allied Health: Comprehensive Edition are indexed in CINAHL.
Coverage: 1975-

Health Source
Description: There are two versions of this database, a Consumer edition and a Nursing/Academic edition. Between the two editions there are abstracts and indexing for nearly 500 consumer health, nutrition and professional periodicals. Over 200 periodicals are covered in full text as well as over 1,000 health pamphlets. Also included is USP DI Volume II, Advice for the Patient which provides patient-oriented drug information in lay language and 17 health books published by the People's Medical Society.
Coverage: 1988 -

MD Consult
Description: MD Consult is a comprehensive clinical information resource. It includes more than 40 leading medical books, full-text articles from over 70 journals, over 1,000 peer-reviewed clinical practice guidelines, more than 5,000 customizable patient education handouts, as well as drug information.
Coverage: 1995- ; updated daily.

General Science Full Text
Description: Provides indexing and abstracting to 168 popular and professional English language science periodicals. Designed specifically for students and non- specialists, the periodicals covered range from very general to highly specialized titles. Subjects covered include biology, chemistry, astronomy, conservation, earth science, medicine, nutrition, oceanography, and zoology.
Coverage: 1984 -

TOXLINE
Description: TOXLINE offers rapid access to information in all areas of toxicology, including chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pesticides, environmental pollutants, and mutagens and teratogens. This database provides bibliographic citations and abstracts from journal articles, monographs, technical reports, theses, letters, meeting abstracts, papers and reports. Produced by the US National Library of Medicine, information in the database is drawn from a number of discrete files including Toxicity Bibliography and Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology. This version of TOXLINE does not contain information from Chemical Abstracts Service, BIOSIS, or International Pharmaceutical Abstracts; furthermore, it is a "rolling 5-year" database, consisting of records from the last 5 years plus the current year.
Coverage: Current 5 years

Biomedical Reference Collection
Description : Designed for doctors, research scientist, students and clinical specialists, this database provides full text for over 100 journals in a variety of areas pertaining to medical study. All titles included in the Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic Edition are indexed in MEDLINE.

Science Citation Index
Description: Search for references and cited references in Science Citation Index.
Coverage: 1987 -
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PubMed
Description: PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. The PubMed file contains bibliographic citations and author abstracts from approximately 3,900 current biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 foreign countries, as well as access to pre-medline articles. Coverage is worldwide, but most records are from English language sources or have English abstracts.
Coverage: 1966 -

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