ONLINE DATABASES

Below you will find a selective listing of online reference and periodical databases that provide access to information sources on Medical Laboratory Technology. Additional databases are available at http://www.mdc.edu/medical/ library/articles.asp.
Please note: Our electronic resources have restricted access and are only available to MDC students, faculty or staff with a current login
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Lexi-Comp Online

 

Description: provides a pharmacology database that includes audio pronunciation, drug uses, adverse reactions, signs & symptoms of overdose, dosage, interactions, and a drug image collection.

 

Please note: access Lexi-Comp Online on campus without a password. The username and password for off campus access is available from your instructor or the Library.

 

Fulltext Available

 

CINAHL Plus with Full Text

 

Description: provides indexing for 3,024 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, with indexing back to 1937. In addition, this database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters, as well as Evidence-Based Care Sheet.
 

Coverage:            Fulltext Available

1937-present

 

Clinical Pharmacology

 

Description: provides access up-to-date, concise and clinically-relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs.

 

Coverage:            Fulltext/Images Available

Current

 

Health Source/Nursing Academic Edition

Description: provides more than 550 scholarly full text journals, including more than 450 peer-reviewed journals focusing on many medical disciplines.

Coverage:                Fulltext Available

1975 - present

 

Health Source: Consumer Edition

 

Description: provides information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition features searchable full text for nearly 160 journals including Consumer Reports on Health and Men’s Health, as well as abstracts and indexing for nearly 180 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications.

 

Coverage:                Fulltext Available
1985 - present

 

Health & Wellness Resource Center

Description: delivers up-to-date reference material as well as full-text magazines, journals, and pamphlets from a wide variety of authoritative medical sources. Additionally, consumers, students, and professionals are provided with descriptions of and links to several pertinent Web sites, selected for their usefulness and appropriateness. Also includes access to Gale's Encyclopedia of Medicine, Medical and Health Information Directory, Mosby's Medical, Nursing, & Allied Health Dictionary, PDR Family Guide to Prescription Drugs, and PDR Family Guide to Over-the-Counter Drugs

Coverage:            Fulltext Available

1980 - present

 

MEDLINE via FirstSearch

 

Description: covers all areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing.

 

Coverage:                     Citations/Abstracts Only

1965 - present                  

 

Physicians Desk Reference (PDR)

 

Description: provides access to Physicians' Desk Reference (pharmaceutical reference), PDR for Nonprescription Drugs and Dietary Supplements, PDR for Ophthalmic Medicines, and Stedman's Medical Dictionary.

 

Coverage:                Fulltext Available

Current