Databases/Article Indexes for Nursing and Health Professions


Red Star indicates highly recommended databases for the subject area

 
AccessMedicine Suite
Dates vary

5 concurrent users maximum
A medical education resource consisting of a large variety of up-to-date established textbooks allows searching across multiple AccessMedicine publications.
 
Blackwell Synergy
1997-current
The Blackwell Publishing Full Collection comprises 803 journals from across Science, Technology, Medicine, Humanities and Social Sciences collections.
 
Books@OVID
Dates vary
A searchable collection of electronic textbooks, drug reference and handbooks with a primary care focus.
 
DartClix is a catalog of websites and their components in a keyword-searchable interface available through Access PA.
Recommended resource
CINAHL via Ovid
1982-current

15 concurrent users maximum
Indexes/abstracts books, journals and dissertations in nursing, physical therapy, medical technology and allied health areas.
 
With more than 1.5 million entries, UMI's Dissertation Abstracts database is the one central, authoritative source for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses.
 
A clinical reference tool with clinically-organized summaries for nearly 2,000 topics in evidence-based medicine.
 
ebrary
Dates vary

Required one-time download of free ebrary Reader before accessing titles.
Access to over 21,000 electronic books. One-time ebrary reader download is required.
 
ETHX on the Web
Dates vary

Open Access
A Bibliographic Database on Bioethics and Professional Ethics.
 
Expanded Academic
1980-current
A searchable database providing access to humanitities, social science, science and technology journals.
 
Google Scholar
Dates vary

To link to Drexel full text from Google Scholar, first add Drexel in the Library Links within Scholar Preferences;Open Access
Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.
 
Provides information on measurement instruments (tests, questionnaires, etc.)
 
searchable and browsable full text of 24 Health Sciences journals covering Social studies of health, public policy, health services & administration, health education, community/public health nursing
 
Journals@OVID
Dates vary
Provides access to hundreds of scientific, technical, and medical journals from over 50 publishers and societies.
Recommended resource
Pre-MEDLINE (PREM) provides basic information and abstracts before a records are indexed with MeSH heading(s) and added to MEDLINE. New records are added daily to Pre-MEDLINE completed Pre-MEDLINE records are added as citations to MEDLINE on a daily basis.
Recommended resource
MEDLINE via OVID
1966-current
The premier medical literature search system, which includes Index Medicus, the International Nursing Index and the Index to Dental Literature.
Recommended resource
MEDLINE via PubMed
1966-current

Open Access
NLM's search service to access MEDLINE and Pre-MEDLINE (with links to participating on-line journals), and other related databases.
 
An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals. he Merck Index is a world renowned, authoritative handbook of chemical, pharmaceutical and biomedical information that contains more than 10,000 monographs, 32 supplemental tables and 450 Organic Name Reactions and almost 1000 retired monographs. Provided by Knovel.
Recommended resource
Mosby's Nursing Consult brings together several leading nursing resources to help nurses efficiently find answers to pressing clinical questions. It includes the Latest Drug Information, Patient Education Information, Professional Journals, Reference Books, Current News, Clinical Practice Information, Evidence-based Content, and Care Planning Tools.
Recommended resource
OldMEDLINE
1951-1965
Indexes articles from international biomedical journals covering the fields of medicine, preclinical sciences, and allied health sciences, originally printed in hardcopy indexes published from 1951 through 1965. For more current articles, see MEDLINE.
Recommended resource
Covers a wide range of topics, including nursing, allied health, alternative therapies, biomedicine, consumer health and health administration.
Recommended resource
Pubmed (Medline)
1966-current

Open Access
NLM's search service to access MEDLINE and Pre-MEDLINE (with links to participating on-line journals), and other related databases.
Recommended resource
PubMed Central
1970-current

Open Access
PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Library of Medicine digital archive of life sciences journal literature.
 
Scirus
Dates vary

To link to Drexel full text from Scirus, first add Drexel University in the Library Partner Links within Scirus Preferences.;Open Access
A comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet. Searches open-access websites as well as peer-reviewed content from publisher sites.
Recommended resource
STAT!Ref
Current

5 concurrent users maximum
A searchable electronic library of full-text medical textbooks, dictionaries, drug information, etc. for health care professionals.

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