Subject Guide: Health & Wellness
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Health & Wellness
Resource Center - Instant access to carefully compiled
and trusted medical reference resources such as Gale Encyclopedia of
Medicine, Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence, and PDR Family
Guide to Health and Nutrition. Key health web sites are also listed
here, as well as 2,200 general interest health publications, and over
400 health and medical journals. Reliable information can be found by
searching under latest news, subject, or key words.
Health
Reference Center: Academic - A full service resource for people
needing health related research. It provides an integrated collection
of general interest health and fitness magazines, medical and professional
periodicals, reference books and pamphlets. Records are available in
a combination of indexing, abstracts or full-text formats. Topics included
in the collection include information about alcoholism, AIDS, fitness,
psychology, cancer, pediatrics, and much more.
MEDLINE
- Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry,
veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences,
and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE
allows users to search abstracts for over 4,000 current biomedical journals.
STAT!Ref
- An electronic medical library that enables users to cross-search more
than 35 medical resources such as Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment,
Mosby's Drug Consult®, the Griffith 5 Minute Clinical Consult, and
more.
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General databases:
Academic
Search Premier - Provides full text for nearly 3,200 scholarly publications
covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities,
education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics,
arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
Encyclopedia
of Life Sciences - Combines ease of accessibility with continually
updated information, providing user-friendly web access to over 3,000
articles across the life sciences.
WorldCat
- The world's most comprehensive bibliography. Includes information
on the holdings of the world's libraries. Over 43 million records, in
over 400 languages, that contain holdings information, and other information
vital to collection development, cataloging, authority control, and
retrospective conversion services. Uses the Library of Congress Subject
Headings as its Thesaurus. Many records in the web version include images
and tables.
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Internet Sites
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
(CDC)
Chronic ILL Net -- information
on a variety of chronic Illnesses.
Hardin Meta
Directory of Internet Health Resources - links to health related
sites.
Health Web - guide to Internet
resource in health and medicine.
Land of Medical
Links - medical health sites, research tools, news and more.
MedWeb
- directory of biomedical information on the net.
National Guideline Clearinghouse
- An Internet based on comprehensive database of evidence-based clinical
practice guidelines and related materials that have been submitted by
167 health care organizations, associations, medical societies and Federal
agencies.
Virtual
Nursing Center - links to nursing and medical resources on the WWW,
such as databases, online journals, and procedures.
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Books and Journals
Books may be found using the library's online
catalog. In the library, you can find books according to their classification
number.
If you need help ask any of the librarians, technical staff or student
assistant to assist you.
Dewey classification for drama and short stories is: 800
Dewey classification for Nursing Is:
61x - Medical Sciences
Library of Congress classification for nursing is:
R - Medicine
RT -- Nursing
Online
full-text journals are available. These journals are arranged by
title.
Also, the library subscribes to periodicals
in paper copy or microfiche. They are shelved or filed in alphabetical
order according to title.
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