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Online Databases - Health and Medicine

Database

Description
Academic Search CompleteSubject Areas: All subjects, e.g. humanities, social science, engineering, medical science, technology, etc.
Type: Bibliographic citations, abstracts, full text
Source: More than 3600 scholarly journals

Alternative Health Watch

Subject Areas: Complementary, alternative & integrated approaches to health care & wellness
Type:Bibliographic citations, full text
Source: Periodicals, peer-reviewed journals, academic and professional publications, magazines, consumer newsletters, research reports, and association newsletters

Consumer Health Complete

Subject Areas: All areas of health and wellness
Type:Full text
Source: Health reports, consumer pamphlets & leaflets, reference books, and encyclopedias

GHI

Subject areas: Health information for consumers
Type: Full-text articles, interactive tutorials
Source: National Library of Medicine


  
harrison

Subject Areas: Provides summaries of key features of the diagnosis and treatment of major diseases.
Type: Full text
Source: Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library


healthandwellness 

Subject Areas: Fitness, pregnancy, medicine, nutrition, diseases, public health, occupational health and safety, alcohol and drug abuse, prescription drugs, herbal remedies, and alternative or complementary treatments, etc.
Type: Bibliographic citations, abstracts, full text
Source: Magazines, journals, newspapers, directories, etc.

healthfinder.gov

Subject Areas: Guides for healthy living, information on disease management, interactive health tools, links to medical providers and facilities 
Type: Full text, videos, podcasts
Source: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

healthacad

Subject Areas: Fitness, pregnancy, medicine, nutrition, diseases, public health, occupational health and safety, alcohol and drug abuse, prescription drugs, herbal remedies, and alternative or complementary treatments, etc.
Type: Bibliographic citations, abstracts, full text
Source: Magazines, journals, newspapers, directories, etc.

Health Source: Consumer Edition

Subject Areas: Consumer health issues
Type:Bibliographic citations, abstracts, full text
Source: Health periodicals, pamphlets, reference books, and Clinical Reference System and Clinical Pharmacology

Health Source: Nursing/Academic

Subject Areas: Nursing and allied health
Type:Bibliographic citations, abstracts, full text
Source: Over 600 periodicals

MasterFILE Premier

Subject Areas: Nearly all subjects including general reference, business, health, and much more
Type: Bibliographic citations, abstracts, full text
Source: More than 1,900 general periodicals, reference and travel books; biographies; primary source documents; and an image college of photos, maps, and flags

MedicLatina

Subject Areas: Medical information in Spanish, geared to consumer interests
Type: Bibliographic citations, abstracts, full text
Source: Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals from renowned Latin American medical publishers.

Medline Plus

Subject Areas: Consumer health topics
Type: Bibliographic citations, abstracts
Source: More than 4,600 medical, dental, health and scientific journals

Medline with MeSH

Subject Areas: Authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences
Type: Bibliographic citations, abstracts, full text
Source: Uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree numbers, tree hierarchy, and explosion capabilities to search abstracts from over 4,800 current biomedical journals

Natural & Alternative Treatments

Subject Areas: Alternative medicine, consumer health, nursing, pharmacy
Type: Bibliographic citations, abstracts, full text
Source: Content developed and reviewed by physicians and pharmacologists with the goal of providing consumers with reliable information

NOAH

New YorkOnline Access to Health

Subject Areas: Consumer health information in English and Spanish
Type: Full text
Source: Reputable and authoritative Web-based resources

Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection

Subject Areas: Anthropology, behavior, emotions, experimental methods, mental processes, observational methods, psychiatry, psychology
Type: Bibliographic citations, abstracts, full text
Source: Nearly 575 journals, many of which are peer-reviewed

Salem Health

Subject Areas: Diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, specialties, anatomy, biology, and recent developments in medicine
Type: Full text
Source: Magill’s Medical Guide