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Research Databases
(Consult this list for interdisciplinary databases)
ArticleFirst
ArticleFirst is an index of content from the pages of more than 16,000 journals in the social sciences, sciences, and humanities. Updated daily, this database is an excellent source for current information.
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Blackwell Synergy
Blackwell Synergy is a database of 750 electronic journals published by Blackwell Publishing.
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CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature)
CINAHL provides indexing for over 2,737 journals and contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1937 including information on nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative medicine, consumer health, nursing dissertations, conference proceedings, standards of
practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters and other allied health disciplines. Full text of more than 620 journals and 218
books is included with coverage dating back to 1937.
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E-Print Network
The E-Print Network is a vast, integrated network of electronic scientific and technical information created by scientists and research engineers active in their respective fields, intended for use by other scientists, engineers, and students at advanced levels.
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Health Reference Center Academic
Health Reference Center Academic
provides full text access to nursing, allied health
and medical journals; consumer health magazines; newsletters;
pamphlets; newspaper articles; topical overviews; and reference books.
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McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology
The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, presented via the Access Science website, is the most trusted and authoritative general science encyclopedia. It contains thousands of articles, 2,000 biographies, current bibliographies, and 110,000 science related definitions.
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MEDLINE
Citations from approximately 4,800 worldwide journals with approximately 13 million references to journal articles in life sciences and a concentration on biomedicine. The majority of the publications covered in MEDLINE are scholarly journals from 1966 to the present.
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PsycINFO
PsycINFO is a department of the American Psychological Association. The PsycINFO database provides access to international literature in psychology and related disciplines including psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work. Sources for the database include over 1,800 professional journals, chapters, books, reports, theses and dissertations, published internationally.
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PubMed
PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s.
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Science Direct
Science Direct is the search engine for journals published by Elsevier, the world's largest publisher of science, technical, and medical (STM) journals. It is an excellent search engine for locating the finest scholarly and peer-reviewed ATM journals.
The Hekman Library subscribes to only a small number of citations found in this database. Interlibrary loan must be used to retrieve articles. Many of the features and services offered in this database are functional only for subscribers of Science Direct. The Hekman Library does not subscribe, so Calvin users access the site as guests.
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Reference Materials
Access Science
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (the web site is called Access Science) is the most trusted and authoritative general science encyclopedia. It contains thousands of articles, 2,000 biographies, current bibliographies, and 110,000 definitions.
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Drug Information Handbook for Nursing - RM301.12 .T83 2000
Quick reference of drug information for clinical nurse specialists, nurse midwives, and nurse practitioners.
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Encyclopedia of Human Nutrition - QP141 .E526 1999
The Encyclopedia of Human Nutrition is broad based and covers a variety of nutrition related topics.
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Encyclopedia of public health - RA423 .E53 2002
This four-volume compilation provides basic information on more than 900 programs, services, organizations, health behaviors and the prevalence, epidemiology, and costs of communicable diseases.
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Lippincott's Complete Nursing Reference on CD-ROM [Electronic Resource] - RT51 .L566 1999
Designed in an easy-to-read outline format, this guide covers a wide range of disorders and patient problems in all basic areas of nursing, including medical-surgical, pediatric, maternity, and psychiatric.
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McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology
The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, presented via the Access Science website, is the most trusted and authoritative general science encyclopedia. It contains thousands of articles, 2,000 biographies, current bibliographies, and 110,000 science related definitions.
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Merck Index : an Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals - RS51 .M4 2001
An encyclopedia of chemicals, drugs, and biologicals including monographs, reactions, tables, and various indexes.
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Mosby’s Medical, Nursing, and Allied Health Dictionary - R121 .M89 2001
Over 1,500 pages of specific medical information in a full-color nursing dictionary.
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Mosby’s Nursing Drug Reference - RM301.12 .M67
This book contains current, complete drug information, with a focus on safe medication administration. This resource features the latest drug information organized alphabetically.
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Nursing Diagnosis Handbook : A Guide to Planning Care - RT48.6 .A35 2002
A reference that helps nurses and students correlate diagnoses with information about clients based on assessment findings, medical and psychiatric diagnoses, and treatment plans.
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Physicians' Desk Reference - RS75 .P5
Annual reference provides Food and Drug Administration approved labeling for drugs as well as prescription information provided by manufacturers for grandfathered drugs and other drugs marketed without FDA approval.
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Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary - R121 .T18
56,000 easy-to-understand definitions, including 700 illustrations; more than 500 in full-color. Includes the pronunciation of unusual terms and etymologies.
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Web Sources
American Association of Colleges of Nursing
The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) is the national voice for America's baccalaureate- and higher-degree nursing education programs.
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American Nurses Association
The ANA advances the nursing profession by fostering high standards of
nursing practice, promoting the economic and general welfare of nurses
in the workplace, projecting a positive and realistic view of nursing,
and by lobbying the Congress and regulatory agencies on health care
issues affecting nurses and the general public" (from the web site).
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BiologyBrowser
A portal designed "to connect life sciences researchers with free, useful resources and other like-minded scientists from all around the world."
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Canadian Nurses Association
The Canadian Nurses Association is a federation of 11 provincial and territorial nursing associations representing more than 123,000 registered nurses.
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Center for Disease Control
Extensive information about health and disease, from the federal Center for Disease Control.
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Food and Drug Administration
The 'Drugs' link on this site provides extensive information, such as the Drug Approvals list (for FDA approved drugs), the National Drug Code Directory, regulatory information, and extensive links to OTC and prescription drug information for health professionals and patients.
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HealthWeb: Nursing : Clinical Resources
Provided by the Taubman Medical Library at the University of Michigan, this site offers resources in many different topics such as research, education programs, and nursing schools in U.S. and other countries.
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INFOMINE: Biological, Agricultural, and Medical Sciences
INFOMINE is a virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the college and university level.
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MedBio World
"...the largest medical and bioscience information resource and reference site on the Internet, which provides access to medical and bioscience journals, associations, databases and other medical resources, with more than 35,000 active links."
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Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
Searchable, online version of the 17th (1999) edition of this general medical text.
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National Association of School Nurses
NASN's aims to advance the delivery of professional school health services to promote optimal health and learning in students.
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National Institutes of Health
General information about health, and news about current developments in medicine.
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National League for Nursing
To advance quality nursing education that prepares the nursing workforce to meet the needs of diverse populations in an ever-changing health care environment.
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National Library of Medicine Gateway
A handy entry point for searching the many valuable resources at the NLM.
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Nursing Center
Provides many full text articles in its Continuing Education section. Journals include American Journal in Nursing, Nursing Management, and The Nurse Practitioner.
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Nursing World
The site of the American Nurses Association. It provides links to the free Online Journal of Issues in Nursing (a peer-reviewed electronic journal), state nursing associations, and American Nurses Foundation.
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RN Central
Created by nurses for nurses and students, this site offers good
resource links, but the highlight is its "Careplan Corner," with
predefined nursing care plans. Users can copy, save, or print and
modify any of the plans.
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Periodicals
American Journal of Nursing
The American Journal of Nursing is the official journal of the American Nurses Association. It is the oldest and largest nursing journal in the world.
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ejournal locator (SFX)
The Hekman Library ejournal locator provides title and subject access to all the electronic journals subscribed to by the Hekman Library.
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Nursing Outlook
Nursing Outlook provides innovative ideas for leaders in the nursing profession through peer-reviewed articles and timely reports. Each issue examines current issues and trends in nursing practice, education, and research, offering progressive solutions to the problems facing the profession.
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