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Nursing and Allied Health Subject Guide
Databases and Journal Indexes The following databases are available to everyone: PubMed FREEContains citations from biomedical literature (MEDLINE and OLDMEDLINE) and provides access and links to molecular biology resources. If a journal publisher has a web site that offers full-text of its journals, PubMed provides links to that site as well as biological resources, consumer health information, research tools, etc. links to some full-text articles at journal Web sites and other related Web resources. PubMed covers the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system and the preclinical sciences. PubMed Central FREE The U.S. National Institutes of Health free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. The following databases are only available to faculty, staff, and students of Charleston Southern University: Academic OneFile (InfoTrac) A general database that contains full text and indexed articles from magazines, newspapers, books and journals in most disciplines Academic Search Premier (EBSCOHost)  A general, multi-disciplinary database that contains full text and indexed articles from magazines, newspapers, books and journals ACS Web Editions (American Chemical Society) Published by the American Chemical Society, ACS Web Editions contains nearly 50 full-text journals and magazines in chemistry CINAHL Plus with Full Text A comprehensive source for nursing and allied health journals, providing indexing for over 2,700 journals with full text for more than 620 journals, plus full text for 218 books/monographs, with some full text coverage dating back to 1937. CINAHL Plus with Full Text also includes the Pre-CINAHL dataset, which is intended to provide current awareness of new journal articles, providing basic bibliographic information before they are indexed with CINAHL Headings. As Pre-CINAHL journal articles are indexed, the records are replaced with complete CINAHL records. EBSCO eBook Collection A collection of over 21,000 electronic books available in full text online. These titles may be searched in the library's catalog or directly in the EBSCO database. Formerly known as NetLibrary, titles in this collection cover all subject areas. Environmental Health Information Service (Not available from off campus. See Reference Librarian for on campus use) Expanded Academic (InfoTrac) A general database that contains full text and indexed articles from magazines, newspapers, books and journals. General OneFile (InfoTrac) A general database that contains full text and indexed articles from magazines, newspapers, books and journals in most disciplines ranging from architecture to biology and history to mathematics. Health and Wellness Resource Center (Gale Group) Provides integrated access to medical, statistical, health, and wellness information. It includes the Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, up-to-date reference materials, full-text magazines, journals, and pamphlets from a wide variety of authoritative medical sources, and health and medical videos. Additionally descriptions of and links to several pertinent Web sites, selected for their usefulness and appropriateness are among the resources in Health & Wellness Resource Center. Modules for Health and Wellness Resource Center offer additional specialized information segments. The Alternative Health module looks at health care from a holistic lens. The Disease Profiler module offers an empirical, statistical complement to the disease information in HWRC. Health Reference Center Academic (InfoTrac) A multi-source database that provides access to the full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus a wide variety of personal health information sources. Health Source: Consumer Edition (EBSCOHost) A collection of consumer health information, providing access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines. This database also includes searchable full text for more than 1,000 health-related pamphlets and more than 130 health reference books, and contains more than 4,500 Clinical Reference Systems reports (in English and Spanish); Lixi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names; and Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (EBSCOHost) Provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong, including Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names. LexisNexis: Academic Provides access to full-text legal, news, business, and medical publications. Includes law review articles and more than 300 legal newspapers, magazines, and newsletters. Provides access to the Shepard's Citations service for all federal and states court cases back to 1789, European Union law from the CELEX database, and international case law from a number of other countries. Includes national and regional newspapers, wire services, transcripts of television and radio broadcasts, international news, and non-English language sources. Provides detailed company information and financial performance measures to identify and compare companies matching specific criteria. Includes Company Dossier, Hoover's Company Reports, Disclosure reports, Standard & Poor's Corporate Descriptions, and SEC filings. Liebert Online An authoritative database continaing peer-reviewed journals in the most promising areas of biotechnology, biomedical research/life sciences, clinical medicine and surgery, and law. MEDLINE (EBSCOHost) An authoritative medical information database for medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, etc. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals. Nursing Collection II: Lippincott Premier Nursing Journals (OvidSP) Searchable index to 30 full-text nursing journals. Nursing Resource Center Designed for nursing students, the Nursing Resource Center brings together in an easy-to-use interface disease and drug overviews, care plans, relevant journal results and animated anatomy and physiology diagrams to complement the core encyclopedia texts. The information is written in accessible language for students completing class assignments and preparing for clinicals as they learn how to care for and treat patients. Search results are returned in tabs that correspond to steps in the nursing process. Opposing Viewpoints in Context Provides contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues. Drawing on the acclaimed Greenhaven Press series, it features continuously updated viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience. Oxford Journals Online Provides abstract and full text access to journals published by Oxford University Press. Disciplines covered in Oxford Journals are the humanities, law, life sciences, mathematics & physical sciences, medicine, and social sciences. Oxford Reference Online Premium Combines language and subject reference works together to form a large reference library. It contains over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works. The section for "Medicine" is found under "Subjects & Books. Science in Context (Gale) Provides contextual information on hundreds of today's most significant science topics. Merges Gale's authoritative reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, experiments, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience. SPORTDiscus (EBSCOHost) A database that contains bibliographic coverage of sport, fitness and related disciplines. It contains over 650,000 records (partially full text) with journal and monograph coverage going back to 1800; over 20,000 dissertations and theses and reference to articles in 60 different languages. SpringerLink An online collection of science, technology, and mathematics (STM) books, journals, and reference works from Springer-Verlag. Subject areas covered include Architecture and Design; Behavioral Science; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Business and Economics; Chemistry and Materials Science; Computer Science; Earth and Environmental Science; Engineering, Humanities, Social Sciences and Law; Mathematics and Statistics; Medicine; Physics and Astronomy; Professional and Applied Computing. Print Sources American Medical Association Encyclopedia of Medicine (Ref. RC 81 .A2 A52 1989) Atlas of human anatomy (Ref. QM 25 .N46 2003 + CD-ROM) Black's Medical Dictionary (Ref. R 121 .B598) Computers in Nursing's Nurses' Guide to the Internet (Ref. RT 50.5 .N53 2001) Directory of Hospital Personnel (Ref. RA 977 .D4718) Encyclopedia of Bioethics (Ref. QH 332 .E52 2004 v. 1-5) Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing & Allied Health (Ref. RT 21 .G353 2002 v. 1-4) Handbook of Nursing Diagnosis (Ref. RT 48.6 .C385 2004) Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine (Ref. RC 46 .H333) Magill's Medical Guide (Ref. RC 41 .M34 2002 v. 1-4) Medical abbreviations and acronyms (Ref. R 121 .R77) Medical meanings: A Glossary of Word Origins (Ref. R 123 .H29 2003) Merck Index: An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals (Ref. RS 51 .M4) Physicians' Desk Reference (Ref. RS 75 .P5) Mosby's Medical, Nursing, and Allied Health Dictionary (Ref. R 121 .M89) Mosby's Nursing Drug Reference (Ref. RM 138 .S59) Mosby's Pediatric Nursing Reference (Ref. RJ 245 .M675 2004) PDR Nurse's Drug Handbook (Ref. RM 125 .S668 2004) Research in nursing and health: understanding and using quantitative and qualitative methods (Ref. RT 81.5 .D49 2004) Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary (Ref. R 121 .T144) Government Resources Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention HealthFinder
MedlinePlus
National Cancer Institute
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
National Library of Medicine (NLM) Gateway
NLM's Databases & Electronic Information Sources
National Institute of Health
Toxicology Data Network
Internet Resources AEGIS
American Hospital Resource Center
American Nurses Association Hall of Fame Black Nurses in History
Essential Nursing References
Gray's Anatomy
Hands on Health South Carolina
Hardin MD (Meta Directory)
Health Information Resources
Healthopedia.com
HealthWeb
Martindale's Health Science Guide
Mayo Clinic: Tools for Healthier Lives
Medscape
MedWeb
National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature RxList - The Internet Drug Index Online Journals The following journals are available online: Biomed Central
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Environmental Health Information Service
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association Online Journal of Issues in Nursing Public Library of Science
Yahoo! Directory of Journals in Medicine Find a list of e-journals in nursing available at CSU Journals and Magazines The following journals are available in the CSU library: American Journal of Health Promotion American Journal of Nursing American Journal of Public Health American Nurse ANS: Advances in nursing science AORN Journal Archives of Psychiatric Nursing AWHONN Lifelines Computers in nursing Computers Informatics Nursing Critical Care Nursing Quarterly Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing: DCCN Heart and Lung Image: the journal of nursing scholarship Imprint International Journal of Nursing Terminologies & Classifications JOGNN: Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing Journal of Christian Nursing Journal of Community Health Nursing Journal of Emergency Nursing Journal of Christian nursing Journal of Holistic Nursing Journal of Nursing Administration Journal of Nursing Education Journal of Nursing Scholarship Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior Journal of Pediatric Health Care Journal of Professional Nursing Journal of School Health MCN, The American Journal of Maternal Child Nursing Nurse Practitioner Nursing Diagnosis Journal of professional nursing N &a,p; HC perspectives on community Neonatal Network: NN Nurse Educator Nursing Nursing Administration Quarterly NP news Nurse educator Nurse Practitioner Nursing Nursing & health care Nursing administration quarterly Nursing and Health Care Perspectives Nursing Clinics of North America Nursing Education Perspectives Nursing homes: long term care management Nursing homes and senior citizen care Nursing Outlook Nursing Research Public Health Reports RN Rehabilitation Nursing Women's Health Issues |
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