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Academic Search Premier: A multi-disciplinary index to periodicals, providing indexing for over 8,000 scholarly and popular periodicals, and full-text for more than 4,500 of these. Designed specifically for academic institutions, ASP spans most areas of study. Coverage varies, but most titles begin in the late 1980's and early 1990's.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic: Provides more than 400 scholarly full-text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also included are abstracts and indexing for over 500 journals. This product also includes USP Pharmacopoeia DI: Volume II Advice for the Lay Patient and Stedman's Medical Dictionary.
Highwire Press: HighWire Press at Stanford University develops and maintains the Web versions of important journals in biomedicine and other disciplines. A list of journals with free full-text articles online is available.
MEDLINE with Full Text (EBSCO): MEDLINE is the primary source for access to international literature on biomedicine, including the allied health fields and the biological and physical sciences, humanities, and information science as they relate to medicine and health care. There are several versions of MEDLINE, with the main difference being the interface. The EBSCO version includes links to full-text articles from nearly 1,200 journals indexed in MEDLINE. See below for other versions.
OmniFile Full Text Mega: Collection of several Wilson full-text databases that includes indexing, abstracting, and full-text from core academic journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Indexing dates back to 1984; full-text of articles begins in 1995.
Oxford Reference Online: Medicine: Offers complete content of more than 125 titles from Oxford University Press. The collection includes dictionaries, encyclopedias, and reference works in more than 20 subject areas, including medicine.

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BioMed Central: Provides access to biomedical research publications including biology, medicine journal articles, current reports, and meeting abstracts. Offers information about current controlled trials, as well as topics in modern biology. Coverage varies by title.
CINAHL: Provides indexing for over 1,800 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. In addition, this database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters. Searchable cited references for more than 930 journals are also included. Full-text material includes nearly 70 journals plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials.
ClinicalTrials.gov: Up-to-date information for locating federally and privately supported clinical trials for a wide range of diseases and conditions. ClinicalTrials.gov provides information about a trial's purpose, who may participate, locations, and phone numbers for more details.
Health Source: Consumer: Provides consumer oriented information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, child care, sports medicine, and general health. It includes searchable full-text for over 150 consumer health journals, abstracts and indexing for nearly 175 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications, and thousands of essays covering major health related.
LexisNexis Academic: A collection of databases with information on a wide range of topics, including news, business, politics and government, law, state and country information, biography, references works and dictionaries, health and medicine, and taxes and accounting. Most articles are in full-text. Covers 1980's to the present.
MEDLINE (FirstSearch): Indexing and abstracts of the MEDLINE database. Use the Advanced Search feature to limit to print journals held by the library. Coverage is from 1965 to the present.
MEDLINE (PubMed): PubMed is the free version of MEDLINE made available by National Center for Biotechnology Information at the National Library of Medicine, and offers many advanced searching functions. In addition to MEDLINE citations, PubMed also contains OLDMEDLINE for citations from 1950 through 1965.
MedlinePlus: MedlinePlus provides guides to specific health topics, with shortcut links to preformulated MEDLINE searches (in PubMed) for various aspects of those topics.
Merck Manuals: Online versions of Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, Merck Manual of Geriatrics, Merck Manual of Health & Aging, and Merck Manual.
National Center for Health Statistics: NCHS publishes statistical reports on health related issues and is a major source of health statistics. Hundreds of publications, including the full-text of "Health United States", are available through the Web site.
NLM Gateway: The NLM Gateway allows users to search simultaneously in multiple databases at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), including bibliographic resources, consumer health resources, plus other information resources.
PLoS: Public Library of Science: PLoS publishes peer-reviewed, open access scientific and medical journals that include original research as well as timely feature articles. All PLoS articles are immediately freely accessible online, and are deposited in the free public archive PubMed Central.
Project Muse: Full-text from nearly 250 academic journals in the humanities and social sciences, including titles in medicine and health. Coverage varies by title.
PsycINFO: Covers the academic, research and practice literature in psychology plus relevant materials from related disciplines, including medicine. Although PsycINFO is a citation database, links to articles in other full-text Ebsco databases are provided. Index coverage from 1806 to present.
PubMed Central: The U.S. National Library of Medicine's free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. All journals in PubMed Central provide free access to full-text (sometimes on a delayed basis). Coverage varies by title.
Science.gov: Gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. Government agencies including research and development results.
Statehealthfacts.org: Provides free, up-to-date, and easy-to-use data on more than 450 health topics for all 50 states.
TOXNET: TOXNET is a system of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases.

Last updated June 29, 2007