Health Sciences

Databases

Academic Search Complete

Academic Search Complete is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. This scholarly collection offers unmatched full text coverage of information in many areas of academic study.

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 nearly 600 journals indexed in CINAHL. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index - with no embargo. Full-text coverage dates back to 1981.

Consumer Health Complete

Consumer Health Complete (CHC) provides convenient access to easily understandable health and medical information. You can search and browse within medical encyclopedias, popular reference books, and magazine articles.

EBSCO Health & Wellness Database Group

EBSCO Health & Wellness Database Group offers the option of searching both CINAHL and MEDLINE.

Films on Demand

From anthropology to world languages and many subjects in between, Films on Demand makes video content available in an easy to use database. Films from ABC News, NBC News, NOVA, Ken Burns, BBC, Scientific American Frontiers, Modern Marvels, and many other sources are part of the thousands available in this database.

Gale Virtual Reference Library - Health Sciences

Gale Virtual Reference Library Health Sciences e-book collection.

Health and Wellness Resource Center

Health & Wellness Resource Center is a comprehensive resource for libraries, schools, and hospitals that provides integrated access to medical, health, and wellness information through an intuitive Web interface.

Health Reference Center Academic

A full service resource for people needing health related research. It provides an integrated collection of general interest health and fitness magazines, medical and professional periodicals, reference books and pamphlets.

Health Source: Consumer Edition

Health Source: Consumer Edition offers authoritative information on health-related questions. With this consumer-health database, discover healthy nutritional guidelines or search for the latest treatments for cancer. The content of Health Source: Consumer Edition is also enhanced with several health books published by the People's Medical Society. With this database you can search for information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals, including nearly 450 peer-reviewed journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals.

Magill's Medical Guide

Magill's Medical Guide covers diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, specialties, anatomy, biology, and issues in an A-Z format, with sidebars addressing recent developments in medicine and concise information boxes for all diseases and disorders.

MEDLINE

Offers users access to information from all journals indexed in the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE file. Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical services, and much more. Links to full-text of over 350 full-text journals. Included are abstracts and indexing for over 3,800 current biomedical journals published in the U.S. and 70 foreign countries, and citations found in Index Medicus, the International Nursing Index and the Index to Dental Literature.

Ovid Nursing Journals

Ovid Nursing Journals provides users with access to thousands of full-text articles from journals like Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal, Critical Care Nursing Quarterly, Nurse Practitioner, OR Nurse, and dozens of others.

STAT!Ref

STAT!Ref is an electronic medical library that enables users to cross-search more than 35 medical resources such as Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment, Mosby's Drug Consult, the Griffith 5 Minute Clinical Consult, and more!

Online Journal Access

Some of the health sciences journals that do not have full-text articles in the online databases offer full-text articles through the Internet to libraries that subscribe to the print version of the journal. We have created a web page with links to journals that are available to Temple College. Online journal access is restricted to currently enrolled Temple College students and to Temple College faculty and staff. You will need to have your username and password to open the Online Journals page if you are not on a TC campus.

Highwire Full-Text Journals

HighWire Press is a large archive of free full-text health sciences journal articles. High Wire offers over 700,000 free full-text articles. Most of the journals have a 6 or 12 month delay before allowing non-subscribers full-text article access.

Ovid Full-Text Journals

Direct access to eighty-three full-text journals listed by title.

ScienceDirect Journals

The following journals can be accessed in ScienceDirect: Annals of Emergency Medicine, AORN Journal, Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, Geriatric Nursing, Heart & Lung, Journal of Emergency Nursing, Journal of Evidence-Based Dental Practice, Journal of Pediatric Health Care, Nursing Outlook, Nursing Clinics of North America, and Oral Surgery Oral Medicine Oral Pathology Oral Radiology and Endodontology.

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