These full-text databases are meant specifically for those looking up articles in the realm of health, medical coding, medicine, and nursing.
Database focuses on complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. Includes full-text and peer-reviewed articles. (Full text)
Comprehensive database of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 1,400 journals indexed in CINAHL. Searchable cited references for more than 1,500 journals. Coverage dates back to 1937. (Full text)
Provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. Includes aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, men & women's health. (Full text)
Health Source: Consumer Edition provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines. Topics include the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. (Full text)
Provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also features the AHFS Consumer Medication Information, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.(Full text)
Provides access to worldwide biomedical literature. Includes broad range of medical topics relating to research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, and health care services. (Full-text)
You may find these other full-text databases useful depending on your topic.
Archive of journal articles, books and images in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. Journal articles published within the last 3-5 years are not included. You can filter your searches to primary source content. (Full text)
Access to journal articles & eBooks. Covers a variety of disciplines, including the fields of arts and humanities, business and economics, engineering, law, medicine, social sciences, sciences, and technology. Full-text coverage:1977-present.
These databases provide access to full text articles in many areas of study, including health and medicine.
Comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database containing journal, magazine and newspaper articles. (Full text)
Designed for subjects of study within associate degrees and certification programs. Areas include accounting, agricultural sciences, child care services, cosmetology, culinary arts, forestry, food service management, graphic arts, hair dressing, hospitality management, interior design, journalism, plumbing, heating & air conditioning, veterinary technology and welding. Updated weekly. (Full text)
Comprehensive general database includes journal, magazine, and newspaper articles covering a wide variety of topics. (Full-text)
Just doing a Google search probably won't be good enough for your research. The articles found through library databases are guaranteed to be scholarly, saving you the extra step of making sure your sources are valid.
The table below compares the various differences between information found in the library databases vs. the open Web:
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We have access (both print and electronic) to many health and medicine themed journals. For a list by subject area, see Serial Solutions.
These databases provide health and medicine related articles in Spanish.
Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals. A wide range of topics are covered including neuroscience, cardiology, nephrology, biomedicine, clinical research, pediatrics, human reproduction, clinical pathology, cancer research, and hematology. (Full-text)
Provides full text coverage of scholarly Spanish language journals in many academic areas including business & economics, medical sciences, political science, law, computer science, library & information sciences, literature, linguistics, history, philosophy and theology. (Full text)
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