Nursing
CINAHL Plus with Full Text (EBSCO) -Provides indexing and abstracting for nursing and allied health journals, providing full text for more than 560 journals indexed in CINAHL. The database contains 600,000 full-text articles dating back to 1937, as well as searchable cited references, legal cases, clinical innovations. critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. Areas covered by the database include nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines.
Cochrane Collection, The (EBSCO) -provides access to high quality evidence based research, which is used in clinical and health management decision-making. The Cochrane Collection consists of three sections that can be searched separately:
- Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR)- Contains full text systematic reviews, as well as protocols, focusing on the effects of healthcare. Data is evidence-based medicine and is often combined statistically (with meta-analysis) to increase the power of the findings of numerous studies, each too small to produce reliable results individually.
- Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE) - Includes abstracts of published systematic reviews on the effects of health care from around the world, which have been critically analyzed according to a high standard of criteria. This database provides access to quality reviews in subjects for which a Cochrane review may not yet exist.
- Cochrane Controlled Trials Register - A bibliography of controlled trials identified by contributors to the Cochrane Collaboration and others, as part of an international effort to hand search the world's journals and create an unbiased source of data for systematic reviews.
Entrez, The Life Sciences Search Engine (National Center for Biotechnology Information) -Provides access to searching individual databases (such as PubMed, PubMed Central, OMIN, Human Genome, GenBank) or to searching across all the NCBI databases simultaneously.
Health Reference Center-Academic (Gale/InfoTRAC) -Provides searchable access to popular medical and consumer health information, much of it full-text, including a dictionary, a home medical guide, medical tests, drug information, directories, and pamphlets and articles on health subjects.
Healthy People 2010 -Healthy People 2010 provides a framework for prevention for the Nation. It is a statement of national health objectives designed to identify the most significant preventable threats to health and to establish national goals to reduce these threats.
MassChip -Massachusetts Community Health Information Profile (Massachusetts Department of Public Health) -- provides data at the city or town level, "to access health needs, monitor health status indicators, and evaluate health programs." One of the two options, Instant Reports, is available from the library's workstations. This option gives basic data at the community level (i.e. smoking in Fall River ). Custom Reports, more detailed, are available only to those who download the MassCHIP client into their own computer-this is not possible in the library.
Medline
(EBSCO)
-MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree numbers, tree hierarchy and explosion capabilities to search abstracts from over 4,600 current biomedical journals.
Medline, for Medline see Pubmed
MEDLINEplus (National Library of Medicine) -Provided by the National Library of Medicine for the layperson who wants to research health questions. Includes information on specific health topics, full-text publications, dictionaries, newsletters, and directories.
PUBMED (National Center for Biotechnology Information, NLM) -Provides free access to the National Library of Medicines MEDLINE database. Includes bibliographic citations and abstracts to articles in more than 4600 journals in the fields of pre-clinical sciences, healthcare, clinical medicine, biomedical research, nursing, allied health, among others. Now includes links to full-text articles in PubMed Central.
PubMed Central (National Center for Biotechnology Information) -Provides free access to full text articles in over 130 life sciences journals. It is linked to PubMed and fully searchable.
Science Reference Center (EBSCO) -a general science oriented database with full text for nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife.
Web of Science (ISI Web of Knowledge) -Web of Science, formerly known as Science Citation Index, traces the references at the end of each paper published in a broad collection of 8000 journals in science and engineering. Use this database most efficiently to discover who has cited a paper written in the past.
