Subject & Course Guides: *Medicine and Health: Finding Articles

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Academic search complete This link opens in a new window
Contains citations, abstracts and full-text articles on most academic topics including medicine.
Cochrane library This link opens in a new window
The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain high quality evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. Contents include systematic reviews, technology assessments, economic evaluations and individual clinical trials.
Gale Health and Wellness This link opens in a new window
Provides citations, abstracts, and full-text material to topics in health and medicine, medications, and wellness. Sources include encyclopedias, directories, medical dictionaries, magazines, journals, and newspapers.

MedlinePlus
MedlinePlus is an authoritative source of general information on health topics provided from the National Library of Medline, the National Institutes of Health and other government agencies and health-related organizations. Both health professionals and consumers can depend on it for authoritative and up to date information. It includes information on diseases and conditions, lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia, a medical dictionary, information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, and the latest health news.

PTSDPubs This link opens in a new window
The PILOTS bibliographic database, covering the Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress, is produced at the headquarters of the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
Nursing & Allied Health Database This link opens in a new window
A full-text collection of nursing and allied health periodicals.
PsycINFO (APA) This link opens in a new window
Contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, in the field of psychology and related disciplines.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
The National Library of Medicine’s free database of more than 21 million citations and abstracts for biomedical literature.
SPORTDiscus with full text This link opens in a new window
SPORTDiscus with Full Text is a comprehensive source of full text articles from sports and sports medicine journals.
Web of science This link opens in a new window
Indexes and abstracts citations in research journals across the disciplinary spectrum.

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