Health Sciences and Nursing Resources

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[Health and Medicine Databases]

*ProQuest Health and Medicine Databases  (click this link to search all three at once)

• *Nursing and Allied Health Source: This provides scholarly (peer-reviewed) healthcare information covering nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, and much more.


• *Research Library: Health and Medicine: This covers the latest in medical research.


• *Family Medicine: This database is for a more general audience covering a wide variety of health-related topics.

*EBSCO Health and Medicine Databases

• *Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition: Written for health professionals, find scholarly (peer-reviewed) articles on a variety of medical issues.


• *Health Source: Consumer Edition: Health information written for people with no medical background. This database offers a rich collection of consumer health information in the area of medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine, and general health.


• *Medline: The National Library of Medicine collects and indexes the information from over 4800 biomedical journals.


• *MedicLatina: This provides a variety of medical topics in Spanish.


• *AltHealth Watch: This provides articles about alternative health options, some are full-text and peer reviewed.


• *Agricola: This encompasses all aspects of agricultural, environmental, and veterinary medicine and sciences.

Open Access Health and Medicine Database

• Directory of Open Access Journals - Nursing: This is a direct link to a collection of scholarly peer-reviewed nursing journals within this multi-disciplinary database that are freely available on the internet. Please check with your instructor to make sure open access journals will be accepted.


• National Institute of Health (NIH) / National Library of Medicine (NLM) - Pub Med Central (PMC): PMC is a free full-text database of articles in the biomedical and life sciences.

[Other Databases]

*Academic Search Premier: This is the largest EBSCO collection of indexed full-text articles available through WWCC. The collection is interdisciplinary so be ready to find lots of articles on varying topics.

*Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection: A collection of articles on psychology, therapy, behavioral studies and personality issues; most are peer reviewed.

*National Newspapers Core: Search the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post all at the same time.

*Newspaper Source: Find news articles from around the world.

*Washington State Newsstand: Articles from newspapers such as the Seattle Times and Tri-City Herald.

*Films on Demand: FOD Digital Education Video provides high-quality multimedia films for academic, vocational, and life-skills content.

Directory of Open Access Journals: A collection of scholarly peer-reviewed journals that are freely available on the internet. This is a multi-disciplinary database. Please check with your instructor to make sure open access journals will be accepted. 

 

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