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• CINAHL Plus with Full Text
  Scholarly journal articles about nursing and allied health. Includes nursing interventions, management, education, theory, and history. Also includes allied health topics such as physical and occupational therapy. 1981-current.
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  CINAHL with Full Text (Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature) indexes over 950 English-language nursing and allied health journals and publications of the American Nurses' Association and the National League for Nursing. Includes full-text for more than 580 journals. CINAHL also covers relevant materials from biomedicine, management, behavioral sciences, health sciences librarianship, education, and consumer health. Indexes books, book chapters, pamphlets, audiovisuals, dissertations, educational software, conference proceedings, standards of professional practice, nurse practice acts, critical paths, and research instruments. Subjects include:

  • Aging
  • AIDS
  • Cancer
  • Diseases
  • Healthcare
  • Medicine
  • Nursing
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Physical Therapy
  • Public Health
  • Rehabilitation

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• ERIC (via EBSCOhost)
  Indexes scholarly journals and magazines in all areas of education, from early intervention (birth to age three), preschool, K-12 (public and private), and higher education. Includes bilingual, special, gifted, and computer education. 1966-present.
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  Some full-text available via UConn Links. Access via EBSCO interface. Search together with PsycINFO or Academic Search Premier. Also includes child development, classroom techniques, computer education, counseling and testing, administration, arts and music education, and library science. Summarizes unpublished documents such as curriculum guides, dissertations, opinion papers, conference proceedings, program descriptions, standards, and tests.

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• Health & Wellness Resource Center
  Contains scholarly and popular articles on all aspects of medicine, health, and alternative health. Also includes health-related videos, medical & alternative health encyclopedias, health assessment tools, and a drug and herb finder. some 1980s to current.
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  Over 400 full-text medical journals and fitness magazines. Designed for nursing and allied health students, as well as consumer health researchers. In addition to magazines and journals, provides health-related pamphlets, and many encyclopedias, including:
  Traditional medicine:

  • Advice for the Patient: Drug Information in Lay Language
  • The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
  • Medical and Health Information Directory
  • Mosby's Medical, Nursing, & Allied Health Dictionary
  • PDR Family Guide to Nutrition and Health
  • PDR Family Guide to Prescription Drugs
  • PDR Family Guide to Over-the-Counter Drugs
  • USP DI-Volume II

  Alternative medicine

  • PDR Family Guide to Natural Medicines and Healing Therapies
  • PDR for Herbal Medicines
  • Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Health

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• Kinesiology Publications
  Master's theses and dissertations related to movement or physical activity. 1948- (citations); 2003-present (full-text).

  Also Known As

  • OregonPDF in Health & Performance

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  Publications may relate to physical activity, physical fitness, activities of daily living, work, sport and athletics, recreation, dance, and play. Older years are in microfiche, level 3 of the Babbidge Library.

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• PsycINFO
  Scholarly articles in psychology, plus medicine, psychiatry, education, social work, criminology, social science, business, & organizational behavior. Search Tips! 1872-present.
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  Covers the academic, research and practice literature -- including journal articles, dissertations, book chapters, books, technical reports -- from over 45 countries in more than 30 languages. From the American Psychological Association.

  Subjects include:

  • Business (advertising & marketing)
  • Communication Sciences
  • Education
  • Medicine
  • Psychiatry
  • Psychology
  • Sociology

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• PubMed
  Scholarly journal articles about health and medicine, nursing, audiology, and biology. Includes entire MEDLINE via EBSCO database plus more than 1 million additional life sciences article citations that are not in MEDLINE via EBSCO. 1950s-current.

  Also Known As

  • Medline via PubMed

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  PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) premier database of scholarly citations covering nearly 4,500 journals published in the U.S. and more than 70 other countries. New citations are added weekly. PubMed is more current than MEDLINE via EBSCO and in addition to providing access to MEDLINE, PubMed provides access to:

  • The out-of-scope citations (e.g., articles on plate tectonics or astrophysics) from certain MEDLINE journals, primarily general science and chemistry journals, for which the life sciences articles are indexed for MEDLINE
  • Citations that precede the date that a journal was selected for MEDLINE indexing
  • Some additional life science journals that submit full text to PubMedCentral(c) and receive a qualitative review by NLM.
• Rehabilitation and Physical Medicine: EMBASE
  EMBASE: Rehabilitation and Physical Medicine is now part of SCOPUS. Search SCOPUS to find all content previously included in EMBASE: Rehabilitation and Physical Medicine. Most recent 10 years.
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  EMBASE: Rehabilitation and Physical Medicine is now part of SCOPUS. Search SCOPUS to find all content previously included in EMBASE: Rehabilitation and Physical Medicine.

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• Scopus
  Scholarly journal articles with a heavy emphasis on science topics. A great database for high quality scholarly articles on any topic. International scope. Excellent for citation searching. 1996-present for citation searching; 1966 to present for general searching.
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  Because UConn holds a license to Beilstein CrossFire, users can see summaries of compounds and reaction information in Scopus for any article that is also indexed in Beilstein Crossfire.

  Using the Papers application from Mekentosj to search Scopus? Papers should prompt you for the Scopus ID (36298) when you do a Scopus search. If it doesn't, or if you need to change it, it go to Preferences, Plugins, Search Engines. Also, Papers can also be configured to use our off campus authentication system (EZproxy), so you might want to add http://ezproxy.lib.uconn.edu/login?url=%@ in the "library proxy" box under "Preferences, Sources".

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• Sociological Abstracts
  Scholarly journal articles about sociology and other social and behavioral sciences. Includes culture & social structure; economic development; evaluation research; family & social welfare; management and complex organizations; policy planning. 1963-present.
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  Some cited references included. Major areas of coverage include:

  • Culture and social structure
  • Demography and human biology
  • Economic development
  • Environmental interactions
  • Evaluation research
  • Family and social welfare
  • Health and medicine and law
  • History and theory of sociology
  • Management and complex organizations
  • Mass phenomena and political interactions
  • Methodology and research technology
  • Policy, planning, forecast and speculation
  • Radical sociology
  • Religion and science
  • Rural and urban sociology
  • Social development
  • Social differentiation
  • Social psychology and group interaction
  • Sociology of the arts, business, education
  • Studies in violence and power
  • Substance abuse and addiction
  • Welfare services
  • Women's studies

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• SPORTDiscus
  Scholarly journal articles about sport, fitness, and physical education topics including both practical and research literature. Covers sports medicine, exercise psychology, biomechanics, psychology, training, coaching, physical education and fitness. 1975-present.
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  Further coverage includes social and psychological aspects of sport and leisure, including play, games and dance. International coverage comes from:

  • Olympic Museum Database: Contains more than 11,000 references to books, reports and other materials on sport and Olympic games held in the Olympic Museum collection in Switzerland.
  • ATLANTES: A Spanish-language sport database published in Spain with more than 7,000 citations dating from 1980 through 1996.
  • HERACLES: The largest French-language sport database covering sport, physical education and fitness with over 71,000 records dating from 1975-1997.

  Subjects include:

  • Athletics
  • Health Sciences
  • Sports

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• Thieme Electronic Medical Book Library
  Electronic textbooks on anatomy, audiology, biochemistry, genetics, immunology, microbiology, neurology, neuroscience, nutrition, otolaryngology, pathology, pharmacology, physiology, radiology. Designed for medical school students.
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  Includes the following titles:

  • Clinical Tests for the Musculoskeletal System
  • Color Atlas of Biochemistry, 2nd Edition
  • Color Atlas of Cytology
  • Color Atlas of ENT Diagnosis
  • Color Atlas of Genetics
  • Color Atlas of Hematology
  • Color Atlas of Human Anatomy, Vol.3
  • Color Atlas of Immunology
  • Color Atlas of Neurology
  • Color Atlas of Neuroscience
  • Color Atlas of Pathology
  • Color Atlas of Pathophysiology
  • Color Atlas of Pharmacology
  • Color Atlas of Physiology
  • Color Atlas of Ultrasound Anatomy
  • Differential Diagnosis in Neurology and Neurosurgery
  • The Human Body
  • Medical Microbiology
  • MRI Parameters and Positioning
  • Neurology
  • Normal Findings in CT and MRI
  • Ophthalmology
  • Ophtho Notes
  • Pocket Atlas of Human Anatomy
  • Pocket Atlas of Nutrition
  • Pocket Atlas of Oral Diseases, 2nd Edition
  • Pocket Atlas of Radiographic Anatomy
  • Pocket Atlas of Sectional Anatomy, Vol.2
  • A Pocket Guide to the Ear

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• Web of Science
  Scholarly journal articles in the sciences, social sciences, arts & humanities. A great database for high quality scholarly articles on any topic. Excellent for citation searching. 1994- present.
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  Science Citation Index

  Subjects include:

  • Agriculture
  • Astronomy
  • Biochemistry
  • Biology
  • Biotechnology
  • Chemistry
  • Computer Science
  • Materials Science
  • Mathematics
  • Medicine
  • Neuroscience
  • Oncology
  • Patents, when a patent is part of the record
  • Pediatrics
  • Pharmacology
  • Physics
  • Plant Sciences
  • Psychiatry
  • Veterinary Science & Zoology

  Social Sciences Citation Index

  Subjects include:

  • Anthropology
  • History
  • Information Science & Library Science
  • Law
  • Linguistics
  • Philosophy
  • Political Science & Industrial Relations
  • Psychiatry & Psychology
  • Public Health
  • Social Work & Sociology
  • Substance Abuse
  • Urban Studies
  • Women's Studies

  Arts & Humanities Citation Index

  Subjects include:

  • Art & Architecture
  • Archaeology
  • Asian Studies
  • Classics
  • Dance
  • Folklore
  • History
  • Language & Linguistics
  • Literature & Literary Reviews
  • Music
  • Philosophy
  • Poetry
  • Radio, Television, & Film
  • Religion
  • Theater

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