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CINAHL with Full-Text
CINAHL with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 550 journals indexed in CINAHL. Of those, nearly 400 have cover-to-cover indexing in CINAHL. With more than 600,000 full-text articles dating back to 1982, CINAHL with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature.
Clinical Pharmacology
Clinical Pharmacology provides access up-to-date, concise and clinically-relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs.
Health Source--Consumer Edition
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.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
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.
MEDLINEplus
Authoritative medical information for professionals and consumers.
PsycINFO
PsycINFO , from the American Psychological Association (APA), contains nearly 2.3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s. 97 percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed. Journal coverage, which spans 1887 to present, includes international material selected from more than 2,100 periodicals in more than 25 languages.
PubMed
Bibliographic information covering a variety of medical disciplines.
American Association for the History of Nursing (AAHN)
This is the web site for the AAHN, a professional organization whose purpose is "to foster the importance of history as relevant to understanding the past, defining the present, and influencing the future of nursing" (AAHN).
American Cancer Society
Information is organized into the following groups: patients, family & friends; survivors; health information seekers; ACS supporters; and for professionals. Site also has its own search engine.
American Medical Association (AMA)
Home page of the AMA. Information on site is organized for physicians and for patients. Useful information under patients includes: Doctor Finder and health information for consumers. A search engine is also provided.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The CDC offers links to funding, publications, health topics A-Z, data & statistics, news, other sites, the CDC Fact Book, MMWR, and the Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal, as well as a link to the CDC's search engine.
HealthFinder
HealthFinder is a free gateway to reliable consumer health and human services information developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. HealthFinder can lead you to selected online publications, clearinghouses, databases, web sites, and support and self-help groups, as well as government agencies and not-for-profit organizations that produce reliable information for the public.
HIV InSite
This site's mission "is to be a source for comprehensive, in-depth HIV/AIDS information and knowledge. The site has an extensive collection of original material, including the HIV InSite Knowledge Base, a complete textbook with extensive references and related links organized by topic. Unlike many commercially oriented sites, HIV InSite's policy is to link to the best of the Web, and thousands of links to external Web sites are incorporated into the site's original content. It is the policy of HIV InSite to allow free, anonymous access to all of the site's content" (HIV InSite). Besides Knowledge Base, other main menu options include: Medical; Prevention; Policy Analysis; and, Countries & Regions.
Merck Manuals
Provided by Merck & Co., this site offers the full-text of three Merck manuals: The Merck Manual of Medical Information--Home Edition; The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, 17th ed.; and The Merck Veterinary Manual, 17th ed.
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Provided by the National Institute of Health, this is a Research Triangle (N.C.) site within the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services. It has its own search engine and also offers an advanced search option.
National Institute of Mental Health: for the public
"Offers information from NIMH about the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of mental illnesses. Included are brochures and information sheets, reports, press releases, fact sheets, and other educational materials" (NIMH). A search engine is provided as well as links to PubMed, Medline Plus, and CRISP.
National Institutes of Health
Provided by the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, this site has its own search engine in the top right quadrant of the screen, as well as a link to the site's advanced search page. There are also links to health information, grants & funding opportunities, news & events, scientific resources, and institutes, centers & offices provided.
National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Touted as "the world's largest medical library," this web site is sponsored by the National Institute of Health and offers links to health information, library services, research programs, new & noteworthy, and general information. There are also links to the site index and search engine provided.
National Women's Health Information Center
Sponsored by the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Resources, this web site provides a gateway to the vast array of Federal and other women's health information resources. Users may search the database by keyword through the site's search engine or by health topic.
NORD (National Organization for Rare Disorders)
According to this web site's mission statement, it is "a voluntary health organizations dedicated to helping people with rare 'orphan' diseases and assisting the organizations that serve them" since 1983 (NORD). While users are free to search the site's databases, only abstracts ofdisease reports and information about support organizations are available free on this web site. Full-text access may be purchased or provided if one becomes a subscriber to NORD.
North Carolina Board of Nursing
The North Carolina Board of Nursing is a regulatory agency, comprised of elected nurses, appointed citizens and staff, charged with ensuring safe, effective nursing care for the citizens of North Carolina.
North Carolina Medical Board
This is the home page for the NC Medical Board where users may look up a physician, physician assistant, or nurse practitioner, do electronic registration for physicians, PAs, NPs, and CPPs, or view a guide to CME requirements for physicians, PAs, NPs, and CPPs. This site also provides links to news, special features, & links, licensing/registration, physician assistants/nurse practitioners/clinical pharmacist practitioners, the North Carolina Physicians Health Program, the Forum & other resources, laws, rules, position statements, disciplinary guidelines & prescription laws, to name a few.
OncoLink
Provided by the Abramson Center of the University of Pennsylvania, this site offers links to the following information: types of cancer; treatment options; coping with cancer; clinical trials; cancer resources; ask the experts; and the OncoLink library. Users also have option to use the site's Quick Search option, which is located on the lower left quadrant of home page or the site's advanced search engine.
RxList: The Internet Drug Index
Resource for in-depth drug information covering more than 4000 US products. Each drug entry will contain the following information: description, clinical pharmacology, indications, usage, contraindications, warning, precautions, drug interactions, adverse reactions, drug abuse and dependence, dosage and administration, and animal pharmacology. The fuzzy logic search engine allows for broad searching: drug names, categories, actions, and misspellings.
U.S. News & World Report: Health
This is the health page provided by the U.S. News & World Report web site. This page offers links to the best hospitals, children's health, men's health, women's health, health after 50, heart disease, and wellness. It also provides access to various stories in the the magazine that deal with health issues, such as the U.S. News Honor Roll for outstanding medical centers and The top 50 cancer treatment facilities. |
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