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
)
CINAHL
Database: provides complete coverage of English-language nursing
journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the
American Nurses Association. Over 1,200 nursing journals and publications
dating back to 1982.
Health
Source: Consumer Edition Database: 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 Database: provides nearly 540 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for over 570 journals.
Health &
Wellness Resource Center Database: 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.
Lexicomp Database: 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.
MEDLINE Database: 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.
Physicians Desk Reference Database: 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.
This project was funded by a grant from MDC's Learning Innovations.
Last updated: April 13, 2006