Nursing, Health, and Medicine Databases

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CINAHL Plus with Full Text* EBSCOhost years vary-
Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) indexes over 3000 journals from 1982-present as well as books, dissertations, conference proceedings, and professional standards in the areas of nursing and allied health. This version of CINAHL provides online content for over 600 journals and over 200 books with some content dating back to 1937. Also included is the Pre-CINAHL dataset, a current awareness tool that provides basic information about new journal articles before they are indexed in CINAHL.

PubMed* Mid-1960's-
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Developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the U.S. National Library of Medicine, provides access to bibliographic information that includes MEDLINE citations, its largest component, as well as "in process" citations for new publications, resources that are out-of-scope for Medline, and more. This database is free and available to all via the Web.

SPORTDiscus with Full Text EBSCOhost 1985-
Searches a mixture of peer reviewed journals and popular publications, such as magazines, in the areas of sport, recreation, sports medicine, coaching, physical fitness, history and sociology of sport, and training.

MedlineEBSCOhost 1950-
Created by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, the MEDLINE database is widely recognized as the premier source for bibliographic and abstract coverage of biomedical literature including medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and more. It indexes over 4,800 current biomedical journals and is the major component of PubMed.

Cochrane Library years vary
Contains high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. It includes reliable evidence from Cochrane and other systematic reviews, clinical trials, and more.

MedlinePlus years vary
Provides authoritative information gathered from the National Library of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), other government agencies and health-related organizations to help answer health questions. Includes pre-formulated MEDLINE searches, access to some full-text medical journal articles, extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and the latest health news. This database is free and available to all via the Web.

HAPI (Health and Psychosocial Instruments) Ebscohost
Provides information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests) in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science. Helps researchers to identify measurement instruments for research studies, grant proposals, client/patient assessment, class papers/projects, theses/dissertations, and program evaluation.

Health Reference Center Academic* InfoTrac 1980-
Provides health information for nursing and allied health students and consumers. It combines indexing for periodicals, reference books, and pamphlets with selective indexing for general interest titles. Full-text content is available for reference books, pamphlets, and selected periodicals.

Health and Wellness Resource Center* InfoTrac 1980-
Similar in scope to Health Reference Center-Academic, this database provides instant access to medical reference materials, including many full-text journals, pamphlets and general interest publications. In addition, HWRC offers instant access to reference resources such as Mosby's Medical, Nursing and Allied Health Dictionary. Descriptions of and links to pertinent Web sites are also provided.

Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) on PubMed
Created by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, this database is a subset of PubMed. Searches in CAM are automatically limited to citations related to complementary and alternative medicine. This database is free and available to all via the Web. Finding Full Text in PubMed.

Your Journals@Ovid* Ovid years vary
Use this database to search for articles in hundreds of scientific, technical, and medical journals from over 50 publishers and societies. Full-text coverage is available for selected journals.

Faculty of 1000 Medicine* last five years
Faculty of 1000 Medicine is an online service that helps you stay informed of high impact articles and access the opinions of global leaders in medicine. It also allows users to set up accounts and monitor current research in the field.

The Merck Manuals
Free online access to the following Merck healthcare books for medical professionals and consumers: Merck Manual Home Edition (for patients and caregivers), Merck Manual of Health & Aging, Merck Manual of Geriatrics, Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, Merck Manual of Patient Symptoms, and Merck Veterinary Manual.

Merck Index (14th edition)
An encyclopedia of biomedical information, "the Merck Index is a world renowned, authoritative handbook of chemical, pharmaceutical and biomedical information that contains more than 10,000 monographs, 32 supplemental tables and 450 Organic Name Reactions and almost 1000 retired monographs."

MICROMEDEX Healthcare Series
MICROMEDEX® Healthcare Series provides a wide range of resources tailored to meet the point-of-care needs of healthcare clinicians. It includes information about drugs (including dosing, interactions, and side effects), herbal medicines, toxicological management, reproductive risks and acute/emergency care. Patient handouts are also available.

MICROMEDEX Corporate Solutions
Corporate Solutions combines ChemKnowledge®, RegsKnowledge^TM and DrugKnowledge® to provide a comprehensive resource covering environmental, health & safety, regulatory, and drug information.

PILOTS CSA Illumina 1871-
PILOTS, or Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress database, covers literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, this database is updated monthly and is not limited to literature on PTSD among veterans. This version of PILOTS requires a Library VPN connection if accessing off campus.

PILOTS U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs 1871-
PILOTS, or Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress database, covers literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, this database is updated monthly and is not limited to literature on PTSD among veterans. This version of PILOTS is free to the public.

Related Nursing, Health, and Medicine Resources

Scopus Elsevier 1966-
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Scopus is an abstracts database covering the following fields: chemistry, biology, physics, mathematics, engineering, life and health sciences (including nursing), social sciences, psychology, economics, and environmental sciences. Updated daily, Scopus covers 33 million abstracts of over 15,000 peer-reviewed titles from more than 4,000 publishers. It includes complete coverage of Medline.

Social Sciences Citation Index ISI Web of Knowledge 1900-
Includes current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in the world's leading scholarly social sciences journals covering more than 50 disciplines including coverage of over 70 nursing journals.

ScienceDirect* Elsevier 1997-
Covers the Elsevier Science journal collection of over 1,200 journals and provides full-text of approximately 735 available to UCCS in full-text format. Subjects include Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Business & Management Science, Chemistry, Clinical Medicine, Earth Sciences, Economics, Engineering & Technology, Environmental Science, Materials Science, Mathematics & Computer Science, Microbiology & Immunology, Neurosciences, Pharmacology & Toxicology, Physics, and Social Sciences.

SpringerLink 1997-
Access to the complete contents of more than 500 journals and 17,000 e-books, covering a wide array of subjects, including science, technology, medicine, humanities, and economics.

Wiley Interscience Journals*
Access to scholarly journal literature in the fields of Business, Chemistry, Computer Science, Geography, Education, Engineering, Law, Life and Medical Sciences, Mathematics, Physics, and Psychology.

Faculty of 1000 Biology* last five years
Faculty of 1000 Biology is run by scientists for scientists and provides a rating system for important papers and trends across biology. It also allows users to set up accounts and monitor current research in the field.

Films on Demand Films Media Group
Contains thousands of streaming documentaries in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. Click on the Health & Medicine subject for the health related films.

Health, United States
Annual report on national trends in health statistics produced by the National Center for Health Statistics.

pubget
Pubget is a search engine for PDFs in the life sciences. It covers research papers found in PubMed and arXiv. NOTE: This is a commercial search product currently running in beta mode. It is not affiliated with nor is it a substitute for PubMed.

Selected General Databases

Academic OneFile*
Contains peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources in the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995.

Academic Search Premier* EBSCOhost years vary-
Provides full text for more than 3,430 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. This database is updated on a daily basis.