MEDICINE AND HEALTH DATABASES
Type of access:    Free to the public        Faculty, staff, and students only


Academic Search Complete - [Contents: abstracts & full text | Coverage: 1965 - Present | Updates: regularly | Provider: Ebsco] 
This database is designed specifically for academic institutions. It is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 5,500 scholarly periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for all 9,500 journals in the collection.

AidsLine - [Contents: abstracts | Coverage: 1973-present | Updates: regularly | Provider: National Library of Medicine] 
This database is Web-based system that lets users search simultaneously in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). It allows users of NLM services to initiate searches from one Web interface.

Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Science Database - [Contents: abstracts | Coverage: 1960-present | Updates: monthly | Provider: AARP] 
This database covers all aspects of alcohol abuse and alcoholism. This database also contains approximately 100,000 records, including abstracts and bibliographic references to journal articles, books, dissertation abstracts, conference papers and proceedings, reports and studies.

  

Alt Health Watch - [Contents: Full Text | Coverage: varies | Updates: regularly | Provider: Ebsco] 

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


American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)- [Contents: full-text e-book | Coverage: varies | Updates: Quarterly | Provider: Teton Data Systems] 
The AAFP Conditions A to Z is a patient information tool that contains common conditions, treatments and health tips.
Click on the "titles" link once you have accessed the site.

Article 1st - [Contents: citations & abstracts | Coverage: 1990 - present | Updates: daily | Provider: OCLC] 
This is an index of articles from the contents page of journals. It contains over 16,000 sources and over 23 million records covering business, humanities, medicine, popular culture, science, social science, and technology subjects.

CancerLit - [Contents: Contents: citations & abstract | Coverage: Present | Updates: monthly | Provider: National Library of Medicine] 
This database provides coverage to cancer literature with more than 1.4 million citations and abstracts from over 4,000 different sources including biomedical journals, proceedings, books, reports, and doctoral theses.

CINAHL Plus with Full TextL - [Contents: abstracts & full text | Coverage: 1937 - Present | Updates: regularly | Provider: Ebscohost] 
This database provides full text for more than 560 journals indexed in the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL). This database contains more than 600,000 full-text articles dating back to 1937.

Consumer Health Complete - ">[Contents : citation & full text | Coverage: varies | Updates: varies | Provider: Ebsco] 
- Consumer Health Complete (CHC) covers more than 5600 full-text journals and over 5600 journals are cited. This database is for the everyday health consumer. CHC provides understandable health and medical information from medical encyclopedias, magazine articles, and reference books.

Google Scholar -[Contents: citations & full text | Coverage: varies | Updates: regularly | Provider: Google] 
Google Scholar allows users to search across multiply resources in one search engine. It contains scholarly information from books, journals, reviewed papers, scholarly organizations and repositories, academic publishers and much more. Google scholar automatically links to full-text articles that are in the OLLU library collection.

Health Reference Center Academic - [Contents: abstracts & full text | Coverage: 1980 - present | Updates: regularly | Provider: Gale Group] 
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.

Health Source: Consumer Edition - [Contents: full text | Coverage: varies | Updates: daily | Provider: Ebsco]

This database is a rich collection of consumer health information that includes nearly 80 full text consumer health magazines that cover topics such as AIDS, cancer, diabetes, and drugs, fitness, medical sciences, food science and nutrition, childcare, and general health. It also includes searchable full-text of 1,000 pamphlets and more than 130 health reference books.


Health Source: Nursing/Academic - [Contents: full text | Coverage: varies | Updates: daily | Provider: Ebsco]

This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Emphasis is given to nursing and allied health coverage. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals.


ISI Web of Knowledge[Contents:index, citations, some full-text | Coverage: 1950 - Present | Updates: daily | Provider: Thomson Reuters] 
This research platform searches Social Science Citation Index and Medline database simultaneously.

JSTOR - [Contents: full-text & citations | Coverage: varies | Updates: regularly | Provider: JSTOR] 
This database contains an interdisciplinary archive of scholarly academic publications that includes journals, manuscripts, and pamphlets. Users have access to the Arts and Sciences I and III Collection, along with the Life Sciences Collection. Topics range from statistics, economics, sociology, and political science, to language and literature, and biological, health, and general science journals.
Note: The most recently published issues (past 3-5 years) are not available.

Lexis/Nexis Academic Universe - [Contents: full text | Coverage: varies | Updates: daily | Provider: Lexis/Nexis]
This database accesses a wide range of news, business, legal and reference information through Lexis/Nexis. Files within this database of special relevance to business include: company news, company financial information, industry and market news.

Medic Latina - [Contents: full-text | Coverage: varies | Updates: regularly | Provider: Ebsco]

MedicLatina is a Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals published by renowned Latin American medical publishers. This unique database provides access to full text for nearly 100 peer-reviewed medical journals.


Medline - [Contents: citations & abstracts | Coverage: 1965 - present | Updates: monthly | Provider: EBSCO] 
Same content Medline/PubMed but different provider & search interface.

 
Medline (ISI Web of Knowledge) - [Contents: citations & some full-text | Coverage: 1950 - present | Updates: daily | Provider: Thomson Reuters] 
Medline is a full-text database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). It contains over 12 million records of journal articles in all areas of the life sciences, with particular emphasis on biomedicine.

Native Health Databases - [Contents: citations & abstracts | Coverage: 1966 - present | Updates: regularly | Provider: Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center] 
This database contains bibliographic information and abstracts of health-related articles, reports, surveys, and other resource documents pertaining to the health and health care of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Canadian First Nations.

NetLibrary - [Contents: Over 20,000 online books | Coverage: varies | Updates: regularly | Provider: netLibrary] 
Most academic subjects covered. The collection can be accessed either through the Sueltenfuss library catalog (WebCat) or directly at the netLibrary web site.

 
Popline - [Contents: citations & abstracts | Coverage: present | Updates: monthly | Provider: National Library of Medicine] 
This database provides worldwide coverage of population, family planning, and related health issues, including family planning technology and programs, fertility, and population law and policy.

 

PubMed Central -[Contents: full text | Coverage: varies | Updates: varies | Provider: National Library of Medicine] 

A free digital archive of peer reviewed biomedical and life sciences journal literature.


Toxline - [Contents: abstracts | Coverage: Last 5 years plus current year | Updates: regularly | Provider: CSA Illumina]
TOXLINE on this service offers rapid access to information in all areas of toxicology, including chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pesticides, environmental pollutants, and mutagens and teratogens. This database, produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, provides bibliographic citations and abstracts from the core journal literature in toxicology.

TOXNet - [Contents: Citations | Coverage: 1965-present | Updates: regularly | Provider: National Library of Medicine] 
A cluster of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas. Includes access to TOXLINE, a collection of online bibliographic information covering the biochemical, pharmacological, physiological, and toxicological effects of drugs.
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