Guest Databases for Health Sciences
Alphabetical list of databases:
A B C D E F G H I-J-K L M N O-P-Q R-S T U-V W-X-Y-Z
Databases by subject
Specific database services
Databases marked “IN LIBRARY USE ONLY” can be searched
exclusively from the Public Access computers in the Library.
indicates a TexShare database
| Database | Description | Full Text | Service |
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Academic Search Complete (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
A comprehensive scholarly, multidisciplinary database, featuring thousands of full-text journals. This resource offers coverage of information spanning a broad range of important areas of academic study including: anthropology, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, geology, law, materials science, mathematics, music, pharmaceutical sciences, physics, psychology, religion & theology, veterinary science, women’s studies, zoology, and many other fields. |
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EBSCOhost
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Alt Health Watch (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
This alternative health database provides full text for 180 publications in the collection, including full text for many peer-reviewed journals. Alt Health Watch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine dating back to 1990. |
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EBSCOhost
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Biology of Reproduction (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
The official journal of the Society for the Study of Reproduction (SSR) and publishes original research on a broad range of topics in the field of reproductive biology |
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Biology of Reproduction |
| Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | The CDCP provides users with credible, reliable health information on: data and statistics, diseases and conditions, emergencies and disasters, environmental health, healthy living, injury, violence and safety, life stages and populations, travelers’ health, workplace safety, and more. |
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Gov |
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CINAHL with Full text (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
The database provides full text access to over 600, and indexing for nearly 3,000 English-language journals in the fields of nursing and allied health, including complete coverage of publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses’ Association. CINAHL covers such topics as nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. In addition, this database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters. This database contains more than 2.2 million records dating back to 1981. |
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EBSCOhost
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Cochrane Library (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
The Cochrane Library is a collection of systematic reviews for evidence-based medicine to inform people providing and receiving medical care, and those responsible for research, testing, funding and administration. It contains the following databases: The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (full text), The Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (bibliography), The Cochrane Controlled Trials Register (bibliography), The Cochrane Database of Methodology Reviews (full text), The Cochrane Methodology Register (bibliography), The Health Technology Assessment Database (bibliography), and The NHS Economic Evaluator Database (bibliography). |
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The Cochrane Collaboration |
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Consumer Health Complete (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
CHC is designed to support patients’ information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. This full text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children’s health, men & women’s health, etc. |
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EBSCOhost
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| Directory of Open Access Journals | Service that provides access to quality controlled Open Access Journals. The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use an appropriate quality control system, and it is not be limited to particular languages or subject areas. |
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TexShare
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| Federal R&D Project Summaries | Consortium of federal agencies providing R&D summaries: Dept. of Energy, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation | Gov | |
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Health Reference Center Academic (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
This multi-source database provides access to the full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus a wide variety of personal health information sources. It integrates the full text and images of respected nursing, allied health and medical journals; consumer health magazines; newsletters; pamphlets; newspaper articles; topical overviews; and reference books. Subject coverage includes: pre-natal care, dieting, drug abuse, AIDS, biotechnology, cardiovascular disease, environment, public health, safety, paramedical professions, sports medicine, substance abuse, and toxicology. |
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Gale/Info Trac
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Health Source: Consumer Edition (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition features searchable full text for nearly 150 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis. |
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EBSCOhost
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Health Source: Nursing / Academic Edition (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis. |
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EBSCOhost
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MedicLatina (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Is a Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals published by renowned Latin American medical publishers. This unique database provides access to full text for nearly 100 peer-reviewed medical journals. |
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EBSCOhost
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MEDLINE with MeSH (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
All areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing |
EBSCOhost
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MEDLINE (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Premier database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. It contains over 12 million records of journal articles in all areas of the life sciences, with particular emphasis on biomedicine. Coverage spans from 1950 to the present. | Thomson Reuter | |
| Merck Manual for Health Care Professionals | Enhanced, searchable, online version of the general medical textbook. |
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Free / Merck & Co. |
| Merck Manual Home Health Handbook | Enhanced, searchable, online version of the general medical handbook. |
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Free / Merck & Co. |
| National Human Genome Research Institute | Arm of the U.S. National Institutes of Health dedicated to advancing human health through genetic research. |
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Gov |
| National Library of Medicine Gateway | Allows users to search in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). Searches MEDLINE/PubMed, OLDMEDLINE, LOCATORplus, AIDS Meetings, Health Services Research Meetings, HSRProj, MEDLINEplus and DIRLINE. Includes various types of information that do not logically belong in other established NLM retrieval systems | Gov | |
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Natural and Alternative Treatments (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
The database contains almost two hundred articles on medical conditions, presenting in an evidence-based manner the alternative medicine therapies proposed for use in their treatment. It also contains detailed, evidence-based information on herbs and supplements, functional foods, and other alternative therapies such as acupuncture and homeopathy. The evidence-based content has been developed and reviewed by a team of physicians and pharmacologists with the goal of providing consumers with reliable information. |
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EBSCOhost
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| OregonPDF in Health and Performance | The intellectual focus of this collection is physical activity. Academic areas of interest include biochemistry, biomechanics, dance, exercise physiology, history or philosophy of physical education, kinesiology, motor control, obesity, recreation, sports marketing, sports medicine, sports pedagogy, sports psychology, and tests and measurements. |
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University of Oregon |
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Physical Education Index (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Abstracts covering a wide range of physical education - related subjects including dance, health, kinesiology, physical education, physical therapy, recreation, sports, and sports medicine | Cambridge Scientific Abstracts | |
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
PNAS publishes research reports (describing the results of original research of exceptional importance), commentaries (which call attention to papers of particular note and are written at the invitation of the Editorial Board), perspectives (presenting a viewpoint on an important area of research and are written at the invitation of the Editorial Board), and colloquium papers (reports of scientific colloquia held under Academy auspices) on a broad array of scientific topics. |
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National Academy Of Sciences |
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PsycARTICLES (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber in both HTML and PDF formats. These journals cover general psychology and specialized basic, applied, clinical, and theoretical research in psychology. |
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EBSCOhost
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Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
This database provides nearly 575 full text publications, including nearly 550 peer-reviewed titles. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Nearly every full text title included in this database is indexed in PsycINFO. This database is updated daily. |
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EBSCOhost
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PsycINFO (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Contains more than one million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports, all in the field of psychology. Journal coverage, which spans from 1887 to present, also includes information about the psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business and law |
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EBSCOhost
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| PubMed Central | Web-based archive of journal literature for all of the life sciences |
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Gov |
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SAGE Journals Online (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
SAGE Publications publishes over 460 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine. SAGE Journals Online is the delivery platform that provides online access to the full text of individual SAGE journals. The SAGE Full-Text Collections are also available on SAGE Journals Online |
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SAGE Publications |
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Salud in Español (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Spanish version of Consumer Health Complete |
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EBSCOhost
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ScienceDirect® (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Provides access to more than 1000 scientific, medical and technical journals published by the world’s leading scientific publishers, many in full text. |
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Science Direct® |
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Wiley Online Library® (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Provide full-text access to journal articles in the fields of business; chemistry; computer science; earth and environmental science; education; engineering; law; life sciences; mathematics and statistics; medicine and healthcare; physics and astronomy; polymers and materials science; psychology; and social sciences. |
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Wiley |
