Health Databases

Full-text material from 70 journals plus indexing for nearly 3,000 more from the fields of nursing and allied health.
Coverage: 1982 - current

CINAHL offers complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses’ Association, covering nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. In addition, this database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters. Searchable cited references for more than 1,170 journals are also included. Full text material includes 70 journals plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials.

Full-text articles on health and medicine from journals, pamphlets, reference books, and health and fitness magazines.
Coverage: 1980 - current

This database provides access to the full text and images of 40 full-text nursing and allied health journals plus the wide variety of personal health information from medical journals, consumer health magazines, newsletters, pamphlets, newspaper articles, topical overviews, and reference books.

Access 50 full-text journals in nursing, medicine, and healthcare.
Coverage: varies, most from 1993 to the present

Citations and abstracts with some full text covering medicine, nursing, veterinary medicine, the healthcare system, dentistry, and much more.
Coverage: 1860 - present

Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE contains over 4 million records covering a broad range of medical topics relating to research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, and health care services. It uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.

Citations and abstracts from more than 600 journals, books, dissertations, consumer guides, and educational videos addressing aging issues from individual, national, and global perspectives.

Produced by AARP, AgeLine focuses exclusively on the population aged 50+ and issues of aging. It includes aging-related content from the health sciences, psychology, sociology, social work, economics, and public policy. AgeLine also includes information for professionals working in aging-related fields and for consumers. AARP generates original abstracts for every citation, with index terms drawn from AgeLine's Thesaurus of Aging Terminology. AgeLine indexes over 600 journals, books, book chapters, reports, dissertations, consumer guides, and educational videos. Designed for researchers, professionals, students, and general consumers, this database addresses aging issues from individual, national, and global perspectives.

Full-text access to all 11 journals of the American Society for Microbiology.
Coverage: varies by journal, oldest dated from 1916

ASM Journals Online is the browsable and searchable online collection of all journals published by the American Society for Microbiology. The Society's journals "cover the spectrum of microbiology, from molecular and cellular biology to biomedical research and technology." ASM Journals Online site also includes the Minireview Collection, a collection of ASM minireviews published in the last 12 months.

Article citations and abstracts from about 6,000 sources including journals, patents, conference proceedings, books, and reports covering the subjects of biomedicine, zoology, ecology, biotechnology, veterinary science, and agriculture.
Coverage: 1982 - current

The Biological Sciences Collection combines abstracts and citations from 25 individual databases covering research in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology and ecology, and some aspects of agriculture and veterinary science. Supporting over two dozen areas of expertise, this CSA database provides access to literature from over 6000 serials, as well as conference proceedings, technical reports, monographs and selected books and patents.

Contains citations to actual test documents; bibliographic citations to journal articles which contain information about specific test instruments; and a catalog of commercial test publishers and their available instruments.
Coverage: 1985 - current

HaPI features material on unpublished information-gathering tools for clinicians that are discussed in journal articles, such as questionnaires, interview schedules, tests, checklists, rating and other scales, coding schemes, and projective techniques. Over 2/3 of the tools are in medical and nursing areas such pain measurement, quality of life assessment, and drug efficacy evaluation. In addition to medical measurement instruments, HaPI presents tests used in medically related disciplines including psychology, social work, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and speech & hearing therapy.

Synthesizes the most important new developments in safety science and human factors research.
Coverage: 1981 - current

Drawing on government reports as well as journal articles, conference proceedings, books, and other publications, Health and Safety Science Abstracts this database provides a comprehensive, timely survey of recent work relating to public health, safety, and industrial hygiene. Cited studies are geared to help individuals identify, evaluate, and eliminate or control risks and hazards across the spectrum of environmental and occupational situations. Topics cover aviation and aerospace safety, environmental safety, nuclear safety, medical safety occupational safety, and ergonomics. Health and safety related aspects of pollution, waste disposal, radiation, pesticides, epidemics - and countless other phenomena having the potential to threaten the public, the environment, or the workplace itself - are reported here.

Full-text articles on health, medicine and the biological sciences from 46 journals.
Coverage: varies (as early as 1905) - current

Full-text articles on health and medicine from journals, pamphlets, reference books, and health and fitness magazines.
Coverage: 1982-1995

Abstracts on gene mapping and sequencing of the human genome. Subjects emphasized include the integration of basic and applied research in human and comparative analysis, gene therapy, genetic screening, and oncogene research. Included as part of the Biological Sciences Set.

Search the entire Ovid collection comprised of hundreds of scientific, technical, and medical journals from over 50 publishers and societies. Some full text and abstracts.
Coverage: 1996 - current

Access the entire collection of Ovid journals consisting of over 2,300 titles in these general subject groups: Clinical Medicine (1028 Journals), Behavioral & Social Sciences (448 Journals), Life Sciences (358 Journals), Nursing (133 Journals), Physical Science & Engineering (295 Journals), PsycARTICLES (62 Journals). Included is some full text from the UML subscription collection plus some abstracts. Use 360 Link to find full text availability in other UML databases or through ILL.

Provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments.
Coverage: 1916 - 2006 (Yearbook 9 - current)

Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) series contains information for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. All MMY entries contain descriptive information (e.g., test purpose, publisher, pricing) and edited review(s) written by leading content area experts. To be included in the MMY, a test must be commercially available, be published in the English language, and be new or revised since it last appeared in the series. MMY provides coverage from Volume 9 to the present.

A free online series of healthcare books for medical professionals and consumers.

Bibliographic citations and abstracts from more than 1300 journals as well as books, book chapters, dissertations, and reports in psychology and as well as business, education, law, social work, linguistics, and medicine.
Coverage: 1887 to present

From the American Psychological Association (APA), PsycINFO contains nearly 2.3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s. 97 percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed. The database also includes information about the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and others. Journal coverage, which spans 1887 to present, includes international material selected from more than 2,100 periodicals in more than 25 languages.

Scientific, medical and technical information online from over 1,200 full-text, peer-reviewed journals along with hundreds of book series, handbooks and reference works.
Coverage: 1995 - current

ScienceDirect contains over 25% of the world's science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information. Apart from online eBooks, Reference Works, Handbooks and Book Series ScienceDirect offers a rich journal collection of over 2,000 titles containing around 8 million full-text articles. In addition, the Backfiles program offers the ability to search a historical archive of over 6.75 million articles back to Volume 1, Issue 1. The collections contain 4 million articles prior to 1995, and 2.75 million articles from after 1994.

Provides bibliographic citations and abstracts from journal articles, monographs, technical reports, theses, letters, meeting abstracts, papers and reports information on all areas of toxicology.
Coverage: 1997 - current

Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, TOXLINE offers bibliographic citations and abstracts from the core journal literature in all areas of toxicology, including chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pesticides, environmental pollutants, and mutagens and teratogens. This version of TOXLINE does not contain information from Chemical Abstracts Service, BIOSIS, or International Pharmaceutical Abstracts.

15 databases covering toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases.

TOXNET's web interface is designed as an easy way to search databases of varying formats and content. It can be used to locate toxicology data, literature references, and toxic release information on particular chemicals as well as to search to identify chemicals that cause specific effects. TOXNET offers a variety of ways to display and sort information. Its "Multi-Databases" feature provides an integrated search of any or all of several databases (HSDB, IRIS, CCRIS, GENE-TOX). Its "Search All Databases" feature provides a list of TOXNET databases in which a search term is found, each paired with the retrieval record count and with links to the Search Results page of those databases.

Search the UMass Lowell Library catalog for books, journals and non-print materials.

Over 3,250 items ranging from commercial tests to measures published in journals and books available at the UML Libraries. Search by test name, author, year, subject or publisher.
Coverage: 1885 to 1999

Full-text scientific, technical, medical content from journals, books, reference works, databases, laboratory manuals and The Cochrane Library.
Coverage: 1997 - current

Wiley InterScience is a leading international resource for quality content promoting discovery across the spectrum of scientific, technical, medical and professional endeavors with content from journals, books, reference works, databases, laboratory manuals and The Cochrane Library, which is the world's best-known resource for evidence-based medicine. More than half of Wiley's journals on Wiley InterScience are digitized back to Volume 1, Issue 1 as part of the development of the journal backfile initiative. When the initiative is completed in 2007, it will be one of the largest archives of its kind with content dating back to 1799 and over 1.5 million articles of scientific and scholarly research.

This four-volume eBook covers 150 types of alternative medicine practices.
Coverage: 2005, 2nd ed.

This four-volume online encyclopedia from the Gale Virtual Reference Library identifies 150 types of alternative medicine being practiced today, including reflexology, acupressure, acupuncture, chelation therapy, kinesiology, yoga, chiropractic, Feldenkrais, polarity therapy, detoxification, naturopathy, Chinese medicine, biofeedback, Ayurveda and osteopathy. For the practitioner or interested patient, there are current training requirements, listings of organizations, as well as descriptions of treatments.

A guide and reference to a wide range of infectious diseases and their causes.
Coverage: Published 1998

The Encyclopedia of Infectious Diseases (Facts on File Library of Health and Living) is a dictionary-type guide that includes over 600 entries about the diseases, what causes them, symptoms, treatment, and prevention. Six appendixes identify drugs used in treating infectious diseases, tips for disinfecting the home, web sites, hotlines, journals, and health organizations. An extensive bibliography provides additional sources.

Complete, full-text access to more than 4,100 ebooks covering all major subject areas, including over 280 titles related to Psychology.
Coverage: Publication dates 1963 - 2006

NetLibrary eBook titles are searchable by using up to four criteria including title, author, keyword, ISBN, or publisher plus limiting by publication year and language. Individual titles can then be read online in the Online Reader, browsed by table or contents, or keyword searched. Up to four books can be held in the Reader simultaneously. Books cannot be read offline, downloaded, or "checked out." The Reader is cleared at the end of each session. By creating a free account, access is available from anywhere using your personal login and titles can then be saved to your Favorites list.

Full-text access to 8 reference books and dictionaries covering health, medicine, nursing, sports science and more.
Coverage: Publication dates 2001 - 2007

Oxford Reference Online Premium is a huge and comprehensive resource that contains over 170 dictionaries and reference titles covering the complete subject spectrum: from General Reference and Language to Science and Medicine, and from Humanities and Social Sciences to Business and Professional. Search either the entire site or any of the 19 subject-specific collections. Also included are collections of quotation reference books, map images, and timelines broken down by theme or country.

Guidance on best resources for Health research chosen and categorized by a UML subject specialist reference librarian.