Recommended Databases
Indexing for 2,928 journals 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.
Content from journals, pamphlets, books, and health and fitness magazines.
Coverage: 1980 - current
Health Reference Center Academic 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
Access full-text articles from 65 journal covering nursing, medicine,
healthcare, psychology and the biological sciences.
Ovid searches can be limited to either the full Ovid collection that includes mostly content unavailable
to UML users or the UML collection that includes 65 journals with complete full-text coverage from 1996.
Citations and abstracts covering medicine, nursing, dentistry, and much more.
Coverage: 1860 - present
MEDLINE, created by the National Library of Medicine,
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 addressing aging issues from the individual to the global.
AgeLine indexes over 600 journals, books, book chapters, reports,
dissertations, consumer guides, and educational videos.
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.
Features free access to
CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians.
Published six times per year,
CA is a peer-reviewed journal that provides
up-to-date information on all aspects of cancer diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
It's the most widely circulated oncology journal in the world, with a circulation of approximately
90,000, including primary care physicians; medical, surgical, and radiation oncologists; nurses; other health care and
public health professionals; and students in various health care fields.
It provides unparalleled information about cancer prevention, early detection, treatment of all forms, palliation, advocacy issues,
quality-of-life topics, and more.
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.
Citations and abstracts from journals, patents, books, conferences, and more.
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.
Citations for documents and journals relating to test 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 as 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. Also included is a
catalog of commercial test publishers and their available instruments.
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.
Articles on health, medicine and the biological sciences from 46 journals.
Coverage: varies (as early as 1905) - current
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.
Covers health and medicine in journals, pamphlets, reference books, and magazines.
Coverage: 1982-1995
The
Human Genome Abstracts database contains 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.
Extensive journal coverage of the health sciences.
Coverage: 1996 - current
Ovid searches can be limited to either the full Ovid collection
Access full-text articles from 65 journal covering nursing, medicine,
healthcare, psychology and the biological sciences
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.
The
Merck website contains two major sections: Patients & Caregivers and Healthcare
Professionals that together offer free access to 8 different Merck manuals.
The Patients & Caregivers site offers access to the
Merck Manual Home Edition and the
Merck Manual of Health & Aging as well as information on patient, vaccination, and
prescription discounts programs and much more. The Healthcare Professionals site offers information on
pharmaceutical and vaccine products along with numerous medical education resources.
Content from journals, books, dissertations, and reports related to psychology.
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.
The NIH free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
Coverage: (varies) mid-1800s to present
PubMed Central (PMC) is a free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the
U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), developed and managed by NIH's National Center for Biotechnology
Information (NCBI) in the National Library of Medicine (NLM). Participation by publishers in PMC is
voluntary, although participating Journals are encouraged to deposit all their content (and not just
research papers or other selected material) in PMC so that the archive becomes a true digital
counterpart to NLM's extensive collection of print journals. In line with this objective,
NLM has digitized earlier print issues of many of the journals that are in PMC. Although immediate
free access to all content is most desirable, a journal may delay release of its full text in PMC
for anywhere from a few months to more than a year after publication. Most journals provide free
access to full text in PMC within a year of publication.
Over 500 journals covering areas of medicine, the social sciences and much more.
Coverage: 1999 - current
The
Sage Premier eJournal Collection is particularly strong in areas of Health Care and Social Sciences,
but also covers the Life Sciences (biochemistry, endocrinology, neuroscience, and pharmacology);
the Physical Sciences (computer science, engineering, and materias science); along with the Humanities
(music, religion, international studies and language studies).
Nearly 1,600 peer-reviewed journals covering many areas of science, medicine, computers, business and more.
Coverage: 1995 - current
ScienceDirect contains over 25% of the world's
science, technology and medical published content. UML has full text access to 1,590 peer-reviewed journals
with citations and detailed abstracts available for over 1,000 other journals.
Apart from the sciences, computer science, mathematics, business and economics are also covered.
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.
Citations and abstracts from multiple types of sources concerning 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. Citations are also culled from books,
technical reports, theses, letters, meeting abstracts, papers and reports.
This version of TOXLINE does not contain information from Chemical Abstracts Service,
BIOSIS, or International Pharmaceutical Abstracts.
A collection of toxicology and environmental health databases.
TOXNET is a free U.S. government collection of databases that 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 for books, journals and non-print materials.
Commercial tests and measures from journals and books available in UML Libraries.
Coverage: 1885 to 1999
Scientific, technical, and 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.
Signup for your own personal account so that you can create a personal bookshelf in order to
create and save highlights, notes, and more. Download the ebrary Reader in order to take notes, highlight, and use
other advanced features. Click on the help icon above for information on how to take advantage of the
many special features in ebrary.
This four-volume eBook covers 150 types of alternative medicine practices.
Coverage: 2005, 2nd ed.
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.
Over 4,400 ebooks covering all major subject areas.
Coverage: Publication dates 1963 - current
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.
Complete digitized content of over 70 biomedical books.
Coverage: most published from 1999 - current
The
NCBI Bookshelf is a growing collection of freely accessible online biomedical books. Titles cover aspects of molecular
biology, biochemistry, cell biology, genetics, microbiology, research methods, and virology. The book content can be searched
directly or accessed through links within PubMed (MedLine).
9 reference books covering health, medicine, nursing, sports science and more.
Coverage: Publication dates 2001 - 2009
This Oxford reference collection consists of six dictionaries covering nursing, public health,
medicine, nutrition, psychology, and sports medicine plus an A-Z of drugs and two companion books
on the human body and medicine. The collection can be searched collectively or searched or browsed
individually.
48 encyclopedias and handbooks covering the Social Sciences and Humanities.
Coverage: Publication dates 2002 - 2008
Sage eReference titles, including the
Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods,
can be searched together or separately by keyword or browsed by subject. Individual
titles have a Reader's Guide that combines entries into thematic categories. You can also limit searches by images, tables,
or sidebars. Subjects covered include African American Studies, Anthropology, Business and
Management, Criminal Justice, Economics, Education, Geography, Health, History, Politics, Psychology, Research Methods,
Social Issues, Sociology, and much more.
