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• Academic Search Premier
  Scholarly journal articles and popular magazines covering all topics. A great database for beginning searches. 1980s-present (dates may vary).
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  Topics include news and current events, politics, literature, communication science, business, medicine, psychology, the arts, and many more.

  • Summaries of articles in over 8,000 journals, magazines, and newspapers
  • Full-text of articles in over 4,000 journals
  • Summaries of scholarly articles in over 6,000 journals
  • Full-text of scholarly articles in over 3,000 journals

  While subject-specific databases may offer more depth, this one may be more up-to-date.

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• eMedicine
  Evidence-based medical articles on 7,000 diseases and disorders. Also contains practice guidelines, photographs and radiographic images, drug tables, interactive clinical tools such as calculators, and a differential diagnosis generator. Current.
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  Access restricted to University of Connecticut.
• 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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• Health Reference Center Academic
  Health-related articles from nursing, allied health and medical journals; consumer health magazines; newsletters; pamphlets; newspaper articles; topical overviews; and reference books. some 1980s to current.
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  Also provides contact information for support groups, hotlines, and research centers.

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• HerbMed
  Full text information about the use of health-related herbs. varies.
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• Household Products Database
  Full text information from Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) on over 4,000 consumer brands. current.
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• LexisNexis News
  National and international newspapers, news transcripts from TV and radio, and company financial reports. 1980s-current.
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  Includes national and international newspapers, popular and general-interest magazines, economics and trade journals, company financial reports, and the 'Public Opinion Online' database, produced by the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. See also LexisNexis Legal and LexisNexis Business Publication groups within LexisNexis News include:

  • Today's news
  • U.S. and International news
  • News transcripts from television and radio
  • Arts & sports information
  • Campus newspapers
  • Business news
  • Company financial information
  • SEC filings
  • Industry & market news and reports
  • Patents
  • Biographical information from Marquis Who's Who
  • Country profiles
  • Polls & surveys
  • Quotations
  • World Almanac

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• MDConsult
  Full-text of over 35 medical textbooks, full-text articles from scholarly journals, clinical practice guidelines, patient education handouts, and prescribing information on over 30,000 medications. current.
  

  Free registration required for access.

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  Subject coverage includes:

  • Allergy, Asthma & Immunology
  • Alternative Medicine
  • Anesthesiology & Pain Management
  • Cardiology
  • Dermatology
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Endocrinology & Metabolism
  • Family Medicine
  • Gastroenterology
  • Geriatric Medicine
  • Hematology
  • Infectious Disease
  • Internal Medicine
  • Nephrology
  • Neurology
  • Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • Oncology
  • Ophthalmology
  • Orthopedic Surgery
  • Pathology
  • Pediatrics
  • Psychiatry
  • Pulmonary Medicine
  • Rheumatology
  • Surgery, General
  • Urology

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• MedlinePlus
  Consumer health information, including extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and latest health news.
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  MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations. Preformulated MEDLINE searches are included in MedlinePlus and give easy access to medical journal articles.

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• Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database
  Over 1,000 reports on herbal and non-herbal natural medicines. Includes scientific and common names of the product, its uses, effectiveness, mechanisms of actions, safety, adverse reactions, and manufacturers. current.
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• Natural Standard (Integrative Medicine)
  Evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies. Contains three sub-databases: Herbs & Supplements, Condition Center, and Alternative Modalities. Each therapy includes scientific data and expert opinions.
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  Validated rating scales are used to evaluate the quality of available evidence. Information is incorporated into comprehensive monographs which are designed to facilitate clinical decision making. All monographs undergo blinded editorial and peer review prior to inclusion.

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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.
• Rare Disease Database
  Citations and abstracts to rare disease and orphan drug information publications from the National Organization of Rare Disorders. current.
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• Stat!Ref Electronic Medical Library
  Medical and drug information designed exclusively for physicians. Search more than 31 medical texts from McGraw Hill, Mosby, Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins and more. current.
  

  Click "I accept" at the End User License page to access Stat!Ref.

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  Note: for access to STEDMAN'S MEDICAL DICTIONARY select the Stedman's Dictionary link from the STAT!Ref header at the top of the search page.

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• Therapeutic guide to herbal medicines
  Guide to the therapeutic use of plants and herbs. 1999.
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