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Library Learning Cells:

Online Tutorials on Health & Medicine Databases

 

Please note: These tutorials are narrated and are best used with speakers or headphones on. The tutorials are best viewed on a 1024 X 768 pixel screen resolution

 

How to Login to the Databases

 

CINAHL Plus Full Text: provides indexing for 1,835 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1982. Offering complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses Association, CINAHL with Full Text covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines.

bullet Health & Wellness Resource Center: provides access to full-text nursing and allied health journals, encyclopedias and other reference sources, as well as informational pamphlets. Also includes the Alternative Health suite of resources.

bullet Health Reference Center Academic: provides an advanced interface to the full-text nursing and allied health journals found in the Health & Wellness Resource Center.

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 nearly 540 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for over 570 journals.
 

Lexi-Comp Online: specifically aimed toward Dental Hygiene students, this database covers drug information, dental office medical emergencies, oral soft tissue and hard tissue diseases, manual of clinical periodontics, lexi-natural products online, clinician's endodontic handbook, and dental office management and practice. Please note: The username and password for access to Lexi-Comp is available from your instructor or the Library.

 

MEDLINE via FirstSearch: covers all areas of medicine, including clinical medicine, experimental medicine, dentistry, nursing, health services administration, nutrition, and much more. Includes 12+ million records from 9,500+ sources from 1965 to the present.

bullet MEDLINE with Full Text (tutorial coming soon): Full text for nearly 1,200 journals with coverage dating back to 1965. Authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care system, and much more.

bullet Nursing and Allied Health Source (tutorial coming soon): Access articles and graphics from more than 270 nursing-related publications, including Nursing, Nursing Management, RN, American Journal of Sports Medicine, Physical Therapy, and Patient Care Management.

Physicians Desk Reference: searchable index of hundreds of drugs and medications. Search by product name, manufacturer, product category, indications, contraindications, side effects, or drug interactions. Includes product photos.

bullet PsycArticles: covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research in psychology. The database contains more than 25,000 searchable full text articles from 40 journals published by the APA and 9 from allied organizations. It contains all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each of the 49 journals. Coverage spans from 1988 to the present.

bullet Thomson Healthcare Series: access gateway to several Thomson Healthcare products including: MICROMEDEX Health Care, which includes information about drugs, toxicology, diseases, acute care, and alternative medicine; CareNotes System, which provides patients with easy-to-understand information about all aspects of their care, medications, and health; and, the PDR Electronic Library.

 

 

  This project was funded by a grant from MDC's Learning Innovations.


Last updated: February 2008   

 

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