ONLINE DATABASES

Below you will find a selective listing of online reference and periodical databases that provide access to information sources on terrorism. 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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CINAHL Plus with Full Text

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.

Clinical Pharmacology

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.

Criminal Justice Periodicals Index

Covers a wide variety of criminal justice topics, including corrections administration, law enforcement, social work, industrial security, drug rehabilitation, and criminal and family law.

Government Printing Office (GPO)

Consists of nearly 500,000 records published by the GPO since July 1976. Includes references for documents to congressional committee reports and hearings, debates, documents from executive departments, and more.

Health Source: Consumer Edition

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.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition

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

Health & Wellness Resource Center

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

InfoTrac OneFile

Includes more than 4,200 full-text titles; five newspaper indexes -- a total of nearly 8,000 titles in all with more than 20 years of backfile coverage from 1980 to present. InfoTrac OneFile makes approximately 25 million database records available with a single search query. It includes newswires from 89 wire services, newspapers, general interest magazines, refereed academic journals, business publications, technology periodicals, and specialty titles in law, health care and computers.

Issues & Controversies

Offers a wealth of current topics research information, including pro/con discussions of hot issues, newspaper editorials, numerical snapshots of key topics, photos and graphics, and selected historical source documents.

Lexi-Comp Online

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

MEDLINE

Covers all areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing.

Military & Government Collection

Designed to offer current news and information to all branches of the military, with a thorough collection of military titles, trade publications and newsweeklies.

Newsbank

News articles covering social, economic, environmental, government, sports, health and science issues and events from more than 500 U.S. regional and national newspapers, wire services, and broadcasts.

OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition

Full text periodicals, along with article abstracts and indexing, covering business, education, science, social sciences, art, humanities and plus popular magazines.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center

Search viewpoint articles, contextual topic overviews, government and organizational statistics, court cases, profiles of government agencies and special interest groups, newspaper and magazine articles and more concerning social issues.

Physicians Desk Reference (PDR)

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

SIRS Knowledge Source

Integrated online access to full-text articles and Internet resources from SIRS reference databases - SIRS Researcher, SIRS Government Reporter, SIRS Renaissance and SIRS NetSelect.