Research Databases
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CINAHL Nursing Index
CINAHL Plus with Full Text provides indexing for 3,024 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. 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. Searchable cited references for more than 1,160 journals are also included. CINAHL Plus with Full Text provides full text 337 of journals, plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. PDF backfiles to 1937 are also included.Complete coverage of nursing & related health disciplines. 500+ journals are searched. -
Medline with Full Text
Medline with Full text offers indexing for over 4,800 biomedical journals, with full text for over 1,470 of these journals. More than 1,400 of those journals have cover-to-cover indexing.Huge, comprehensive group of journals in medicine and related fields.
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Health Source Nursing/Academic Edition
There are two versions of this database, a Consumer edition and a Nursing edition.?Between the two editions there are abstracts and indexing for nearly 500 consumer health, nutrition and professional periodicals. Over 200 periodicals are covered in full text as well as over 1,000 health pamphlets. Also included is USP DI Volume II, Advice for the Patient which provides patient-oriented drug information in lay language and 17 health books published by the People's Medical Society.550+ full text scholarly journals are searched, including 450 peer reviewed journals in many medical disciplines. -
Nursing Full Text Plus
Nursing Full Text Plus combines full-text access to over 40 research and practitioner-oriented journals dating as far back as 1995. It also includes records from over 400 nursing journals spanning the breadth of the profession.Searched Ovid's nursing journals as well as MEDLINE. -
Science Direct
ScienceDirect? is a large electronic collection of science, technology, and medicine full-text and bibliographic information. Subjects covered include physical sciences and engineering, life sciences, health sciences, social sciences & humanitiesCoverage in health sciences. Polk subscribes to approx. 1700 full text journals from 2006 - present. -
Alt HealthWatch
This database focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers libraries full text articles for more than 180 international, and often peer-reviewed journals and reports. In addition, there are hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts. Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine.This database focuses on alternative and complementary medicine topics. -
New England Journal of Medicine Online
Online access to the New England Journal of MedicineOnline full text access to the journal. -
PsycInfo
PsycINFO (R) contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, all in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law.The premier psychology search tool. Searches the full text of 40+ psychology journals, and links to other Ebsco full text. -
SportDiscus
This link takes you to 2 databases: SPORTDiscus with Full Text is a source of full text for sports & sports medicine journals, providing full text for more than 415 journals. With more than 700,000 full-text articles dating back to 1985, SPORTDiscus with Full Text is a research tool for all areas of sports and sports medicine literature. SPORTDiscus Select focuses to provide information for doctors, allied health professionals, educators and researchers in the field of sports medicine, physical education, sport law & legislation, injury prevention & rehabilitation and other related areas. This database contains 169 full text journals with PDF coverage back as far as 1887 including 130 peer-reviewed publications.Source of full text in sports medicine, physical education, injury prevention, rehabilitation and more. -
NHS Economic Evaluation Database
The NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED) assists decision-makers in the world of professional health care by providing information on the costs and effects of drugs, treatments and procedures. Economic evaluations - the cost-benefit analysis of two or more different medical treatments - from around the world are systematically identified, described and appraised for quality while their relative strengths and weaknesses are explored and highlighted. The database contains over 6,000 abstracts of quality-assessed economic evaluations and more than 21,000 total records. NHS EED is produced by the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) at the University of York, UK.Provides information on the costs and effects of drugs, treatments and procedures. -
Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects
Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE) includes abstracts of published systematic reviews on the effects of health care from around the world, which have been critically analyzed according to a high standard of criteria. This database provides access to quality reviews in subjects for which a Cochrane review may not yet exist.Provides abstracts of published systematic reviews on the effects of health care for which a Cochrane review may not yet exist. -
Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials
Cochrane Controlled Trials Register is a bibliography of controlled trials identified by contributors to the Cochrane Collaboration and others, as part of an international effort to hand search the world's journals and create an unbiased source of data for systematic reviews.A bibliography of controlled trials worldwide. -
AHFS Consumer Medication Information
AHFS Consumer Medication Information is an award winning database of drug information monographs written in lay language for consumers. It is frequently updated and conforms to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the FDA's guidelines for the provision of useful prescription medicine information to consumers. There are Spanish language versions of all articles, translated by experienced human health and medical translators (not by computer programs).A comprehensive medication database providing useful medication information written in lay language. Also includes Spanish translations. -
Science Citation Index
Search for references and cited references in Science Citation Index.Comprehensive search tool that lets you do a cited reference search. -
Science Magazine Online
Online access to Science magazine.Full text access to current and some archival issues.
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Academic Search Complete
Gain access to information from a wide range of academic areas including business, social sciences, humanities, general academic, general science, and education. The upgrade from Academic Search Elite to Academic Search Complete has been partially funded in 2007-08 by the UW Oshkosh Student Technology Fund.
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Journal, Magazine and Newspaper Resources
Multi-topic tool with full text for nearly 4,500 journals including 3,700+ peer-reviewed journals. -
Masterfile Premier
Provides abstracts and indexing for more than 3,100 periodicals, plus searchable full text for more than 1,500 active periodicals. Subjects covered include general reference, business, health, multicultural and more. Total coverage includes over 4 million articles.
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Journal, Magazine and Newspaper Resources
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Lexis Nexis Academic Universe
Academic Universe provides access to nearly 5,000 publications on a wide range of topics: news, business, legal, and reference information. In Business, it includes company financials, SEC Filings and reports, directories, accounting journals & more.
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Journal, Magazine and Newspaper Resources
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Credo Reference
Credo is an easy-to-use tool for research projects and homework. Search in hundreds of encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, and subject-specific titles, as well as 200,000+ images and audio files, and nearly 100 videos.
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Reference & Background Resources
Credo is an easy-to-use tool for research projects and homework. Search in hundreds of encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, and subject-specific titles, as well as 200,000+ images and audio files, and nearly 100 videos.
