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Databases

CINAHL Plus with Full Text - CINAHL Plus with Full Text provides indexing for 3,024 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, with indexing back to 1937. CINAHL Plus with Full Text also contains searchable cited references for more than 1,160 journals and provides full text for hundreds of journals, plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. PDF backfiles to 1937 are also included.

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.

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) - recognized as the lead federal agency for protecting the health and safety of people, providing credible information to enhance health decisions, and promoting health through strong partnerships.

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 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.

NOAH: New York Online Access to Health - NOAH provides access to high quality full-text consumer health information in English and Spanish that is accurate, timely, relevant and unbiased.

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 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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