Databases by Subject -- Health & Medicine

Find Articles in Databases

Use the following databases to find articles in scholarly journals, magazines, conferences, etc.

Health and Wellness Resource Center (Partial Full-Text)
1980 - present
Use this Resource Center to find magazines, journals, newspapers, definitions, directories, and information on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, Prescription Drugs, etc. Included are links to diet, cancer, and health assessment sites as well as government databases. Now features a Multimedia Library with videos and links to articles on a variety of topics.

Health Reference Center Academic (Partial Full-Text)
1980 - present
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.

Academic OneFile (Partial Full-Text)
1980 - present
Comprehensive database with millions of articles from journals and other reference sources. Includes articles on a variety of subjects such as: business and small business, communications and mass media, computers, criminal justice, diversity, education, environmental studies, health and medicine, landscaping and horticulture, military and terrorism, pop culture, psychology, religion and philosophy, and science. Includes the full-text coverage of The New York Times from 1995 to present.

Nursing & Allied Health Collection (Partial Full-Text)
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. Nearly all full text titles included in Nursing & Allied Health are indexed in CINAHL.

Health Source: Nursing Academic (Partial Full-Text)
1975 - present
Find articles on a variety of medical topics, with strong coverage of nursing and allied health. The database also includes the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which has up-to-date and concise drug education sheets covering over 1,300 generic medications and including over 4,700 brand names.                

CINAHL (Partial Full-Text)
1982 -present
Find articles in journals in the nursing and allied health fields, including biomedicine, health sciences, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health, and other related fields. Includes access to health care books, dissertations, conference proceedings, book chapters, audiovisuals, etc. Indexes and abstracts for over 2,700 journals, with full-text for 331. Provides full-text legal cases, critical paths, drug records, clinical trials, etc.

NLM (National Library of Medicine) Gateway (Partial Full-Text)
Current
Information from medical resources, including journal articles, books, consumer health information, meeting abstracts, and more. Provides access to: MEDLINE®/PubMed; TOXLINE Special (toxicology citations); NLM Catalog (catalog information for books, serial titles, and audiovisuals); MedlinePlus (consumer health information); ClinicalTrials.gov (public information about clinical trials); DIRLINE® (directory of health organizations; Genetics Home Reference (consumer information for genetic conditions); meeting abstracts on HIV/AIDS, health services research and space life sciences; HSRProj (health services research projects; OMIM (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man); and HSDB® (Hazardous Substances Data Bank).

Anatomy.tv (Graphics & Text)
A 3D interactive anatomy and pathology database that allows selection of a particular region of the body to study, such as head & neck, shoulder, spine, thorax & abdomen, pelvis & perineum, hand & forearm, hip, knee, foot, or functional anatomy module. Choose the layer level to view, from skeleton through the surface, including muscles, nerves, arteries and veins. Click on particular sections and read the accompanying descriptive text, as well as use the zoom, angle, and rotation features to better view the model.

Science Index (Partial Full-Text)
1984 - present
Use this database to find articles on many science subjects such as: astronomy, biology, botany, chemistry, environment, food & nutrition, genetics, health & medicine, mathematics, microbiology, oceanography, physics, physiology, zoology, etc. Many articles are full-text. The content in this database is also part of OmniFile Mega.

Infotrac Science (Partial Full-Text)
1980 - present
Includes millions of articles from over 1,600 magazines, journals and reference materials on all aspects of the sciences. Topics include: agriculture, aerospace engineering, architecture, computer-aided design and engineering, electronics, microbiology, physics, plants and animals, psychology, zoology and more. The content of this database is also part of Academic OneFile and General OneFile.

Magill's Medical Guide Online (Full-Text)
Up-to-date medical and health database includes an A-Z guide with over 1,000 essays, 400 photographs and drawings, and 644 sidebars and tables on issues in the following topics: Anatomy & Physiology; Diagnosis & Testing; Diseases, Disorders, & Symptoms; Mental Health; Prevention & Lifestyle; Social Issues; Specialties and Health Care Providers; and Treatment & Therapy. Indexes, appendixes, and glossary are included.

Find an e-Journal

If you are looking for a list of journal or magazine titles about Health & Medicine, go to the Full-Text online versions of these titles.

Useful Books Located in the Library

Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine. (5 Vols.)
Longe, Jacqueline L. ed.
Detroit, MI : Gale Group, c2002.
Reference Room (3rd Floor) - [Ref] RC41 .G35 2002

Well Connected Reports. (2 Vols.)
New York : Nidus Information Services.
Reference Room (3rd Floor) - [Ref] RA776.95 .W45

The Merck Manual of Health & Aging.
Beers, Mark H. ed.
Whitehouse Station, NJ : Merck Research Laboratories, 2004.
Reference Room (3rd Floor) - [Ref] RC81 .M4735 2004

Physicians' Desk Reference to Pharmaceutical Specialties and Biologicals.
Oradell, N.J. : Medical Economics Co.
Ready Reference (3rd Floor - Reference Desk) - [Ref] RS250 .P5 2005

Call Numbers for Browsing

R	Medicine (General)
RA	Public Aspects of Medicine
RB	Pathology
RC	Internal Medicine. Practice of Medicine
RD	Surgery
RJ	Pediatrics
RK	Dentistry
RM	Therapeutics
RT	Nursing

Selected Web Sites

Medline Plus

From the National Library of Medicine. Medline Plus offers a wide variety of health-related information.

Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy

Classic general medical textbook available fulltext on the web.

National Center for Health Statistics

Federal government's principal vital and health statistics agency, provides a wide variety of data.

BioMed Central

Over 205 Open Access journals related to science, medicine, and technology available free online.