DATABASES FOR NURSING/HEALTH SERVICES STUDENTS AT IWU

DATABASES FOR NURSING/HEALTH SERVICES STUDENTS AT IWU

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Nursing/Health Services/Medical Databases ........................................................................................... 2 Education Databases........................................................................................................................... 5 General Subject Databases (not necessarily specific to any one discipline).................................................. 6 Psychology Databases ........................................................................................................................10 Business Databases ...........................................................................................................................10 Religion Databases ............................................................................................................................12 Books/Videos for your Research ..........................................................................................................13 Identifying Journal Titles that IWU Provides Full Content Access (A to Z database) .....................................14 Streaming Media (Films on Demand & VAST: Academic Video Online) .......................................................14 APA Helps ........................................................................................................................................14 Mobile Access ...................................................................................................................................14

Nursing/Health Services/Medical Databases

To access databases listed below, start at the OCLS homepage (); >> Nursing, under Article Databases).

Fulltext Contains peer reviewed Vendor Access

Database Name Description of content

Biomedical Reference Full text titles in the area of medical study.

Yes

Yes

Collection: Basic

CINAHL Plus with Full Text

Provides access to nursing and allied health literature, thesis and dissertations. From this vendor there is some full text as it links out to other EBSCO databases to provide the full text articles.

Linked full text + what Yes is already available in CINAHL

Clinical

Access to clinically relevant drug monographs for

Yes

No

Pharmacology

prescription, herbal, nutritional, over-the-counter and

investigational drugs. Also includes patient education

information sheets.

Cochrane Library Evidence-based documents to provide informed Yes

Yes

health-care decision-making.

Dissertations &

Access to theses & dissertations in all disciplines.

Yes

No

Theses

(Nursing-related ones are indexed in CINAHL).

Health & Wellness

Articles from journals on the topics related to health and Yes

Yes

Resource Center w/ wellness, with special emphasis of alternative medicine

Alt Health

Health Business Full Covers the business of health care administration.

Yes

Yes

Text

EBSCOhost EBSCOhost

EBSCOhost

Wiley InterScience CSA/ProQuest GaleCengage EBSCOhost

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Database Name Description of content

Health Reference

Specializing in resources directed to the college student, Yes

Yes

Center Academic

this database emphasizes health topics.

Health Source: Consumer Edition

Consumer health information.

Yes

No

Health Source:

Indexes and provides full text for many journals Yes

Yes

Nursing/Academic related to health, nursing, allied health,

Edition

medicine, etc.

MEDLINE Full

Authoritative medical information from the

Yes

Yes

Text

National Library of Medicine.

Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print

Comprehensive guide to > 2000 contemporary testing instruments in the disciplines of business psychology, leadership and education. Online version of the same named set of books. The online version starts with vol. 9, but the library has paper of all volumes.

Not the tests, just

n/a

information about the tests,

such as publisher, cost,

reviews, etc.

Nursing Resource

Primarily directed towards the beginning nursing student Yes

Yes

Center

as it gives a lot of information about disease processes

and nursing process and helps the student develop

detailed care plans.

ProQuest Nursing Specialized collection of nursing and health-

Yes

Yes

& Education

related journals. Also includes the Evidenced-

Journal Collection Based Resources from the Joanna Briggs

Institute

SAGE Knowledge ? Full text books available for viewing online.

Yes

Yes

Medical Collection

Science Direct Health Full text journal collection from Science Direct.

Yes

Yes

and Life Sciences

GaleCengage EBSCOhost EBSCOhost EBSCOhost EBSCOhost

GaleCengage

ProQuest CSA Journal Collections SAGE ScienceDirect

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Database Name Description of content

SPORTDiscus

Most comprehensive source for sports and sports

Yes

medicine journals.

UpToDate

Evidence-based medicine physician-authored clinical

Yes

decision support resource. [This specialized

database is only available to graduate nursing

students.]

Yes

EBSCO Databases

common menu

(General >> EBSCO

Databases >>All

EBSCO databases)

Yes

Wolter Kluwer

The databases in bold in the Nursing/Health Services/Medical section are best used for finding articles on nursing and medical related topics. For a review of how to use these databases, go to:

Under: OCLS Tools >> Click on: More... >> Click on: Nursing Database Page

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Education Databases

To access databases listed below, start at the OCLS homepage (); >> Education, under Article Databases).

Database Name Description of content

Fulltext Contains peer reviewed Vendor Access

ERIC

Provides access to education resources and literature. There are articles (EJ######) and documents (ED######) in the database. Some articles are available full text and most of the ED documents are available with full text links.

Yes, links to other EBSCO Yes databases & ERIC documents

Academic

General subject database that contains indexing for many Yes

Yes

Search Complete

education databases even though it is not primarily an

education database.

Mental

Comprehensive guide to > 2000 contemporary testing

Not the tests, just

n/a

Measurements

instruments in the disciplines of business psychology,

information about the

Yearbook with Tests leadership and education. Online version of the same

tests, such as publisher,

in Print

named set of books. The online version starts with vol. 9, cost, reviews, etc.

but the library has paper of all volumes.

Professional

Specialized collection of education journals and

Yes

Yes

Development

educational reports.

Collection

EBSCOhost EBSCOHost EBSCOhost EBSCOHost

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