Benedictine University Library - Databases by Subject

Databases covering Health & Medicine

Database name / Provider	Description
Academic Search Premier / EBSCOhost Coverage: ca. 1975 -- (varies with journal) Full text: Yes Available from off campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Contains indexing for more than 8,200 publications, with full text for nearly 4,700 of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. Academic Search Premier contains unmatched full text coverage in biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, religion & theology, etc.
AccessScience / AccessScience Coverage: n/a Full text: Yes Available from off campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Full text of the 10th edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, plus news, recent developments in research, scientists' biographies, and links to related Web sites.
Annual Reviews / Annual Reviews Coverage: 1996 -- Full text: Yes Available from off campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Online access to the full text of the following Annual Reviews titles: Anthropology, Biochemistry, Cell & Developmental Biology, Energy & the Environment, Ecology & Systematics, Immunology, Medicine, Microbiology, Nutrition, Physiology, Phytopathology, Psychology, Public Health, Sociology. You can search the content of all 29 Annual Reviews titles. However, you can only view the full text of the titles to which Benedictine subscribes.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text / EBSCOhost Coverage: 1937 -- Full text: Some Available from off campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 560 journals indexed in CINAHL. Of those, nearly 400 have cover-to-cover indexing. With more than 600,000 full-text articles dating back to 1937, CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature.
Consumer Health Complete / EBSCOhost Coverage: n/a Full text: Yes Available from off campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Consumer Health Complete is a comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content. It is designed to support patients' information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. Consumer Health Complete provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. In addition, Consumer Health Complete includes the Clinical Reference System and the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs.
Dissertation Abstracts (Proquest Digital Dissertations) / Proquest Coverage: 1861 -- Full text: Yes Available from off campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	References, abstracts and full text (1997 onwards) of doctoral dissertations from accredited American and Canadian, selected British and European universities, covering all academic subjects. Masters theses are also included from accredited North American Universities.
Health Source: Consumer Edition / EBSCOhost Coverage: 1984 -- (indexing & abstracting), 1990 -- (full text) Full text: Yes Available from off campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Full text of nearly 150 health periodicals, over 1,000 health pamphlets, and 20 health reference books covering nutrition, exercise, medical self-care, drugs and alcohol, and more. the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Also features searchable full text for nearly 300 journals.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic / EBSCOhost Coverage: 1984 -- (indexing & abstracting), 1990 -- (full text) Full text: Yes Available from off campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Full text of nearly 550 full text journals in the health sciences, with an emphasis on nursing and allied health. Also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals.
Liebert Online / Liebert Online Coverage: varies by journal Full text: Yes Available from off campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Over 50 journals in a variety of medical and health sciences fields
MEDLINE (FirstSearch interface) / FirstSearch Coverage: 1965 -- Full text: No Available from off campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Over 12 million abstracted articles from medical journals worldwide, including the fields of clinical medicine, dentistry, education, experimental medicine, health services administration, nursing, nutrition, pathology, psychiatry, toxicology, and veterinary medicine.
MEDLINE (Web of Science interface) / Thomson Scientific Coverage: 1950 - Full text: No but contains links to full text Available from off campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	records cover 1950 - present
Ovid Nursing Full Text PLUS / Wolters Kluwer Coverage: 1950 -- Full text: Yes Available from off campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Professionals, researchers, students, and information managers in the scientific and healthcare communities rely on Ovid for the information they need to explore a new theory, fuel a new discovery, inform ongoing research, and improve patient care. Ovid provides customized clinical, research, and educational solutions that help each individual and each organization transform information into knowledge.
Science Citation Index Expanded / Thomson Scientific Coverage: 1996 - Full text: No but contains links to full text Available from off campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Provides access to bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references from approximately 5,900 of the world’s leading scholarly science and technology journals covering more than 150 disciplines. MEDLINE 1950 - present is also searchable through this interface.
ScienceDirect / Elsevier Coverage: 1993 -- (in general; some individual titles vary) Full text: Yes Available from off campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Full-text electronic access to 1200 titles in the Health & Life Sciences and Social & Behavioural Sciences collections.
SPORTDiscus with Full Text / EBSCOhost Coverage: 1985 -- Full text: Yes Available from off campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Comprehensive source of full text for sports & sports medicine journals, providing full text for more than 490 journals. With full-text coverage dating back to 1985, SPORTDiscus with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all areas of sports & sports medicine literature.
STAT!Ref / National Library Alliance Coverage: n/a Full text: Yes Available from off campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	STAT!Ref online is a cross-searchable, healthcare reference that integrates core titles with evidence-based resources and innovative tools.
Web of Science / Thomson Scientific Coverage: 1991 - Full text: No but contains links to full text Available from off campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Includes Science Citation Index Expanded: provides access to bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references from approximately 5,900 of the world’s leading scholarly science and technology journals covering more than 150 disciplines. MEDLINE 1950 - present is also searchable through this interface.
Wiley Interscience / Wiley Interscience Coverage: n/a Full text: Yes Available from off campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Access to electronic versions of many of the journals that the library currently subscribes to in paper. All other Wiley InterScience journals are available as table of contents and article abstracts. Individual full-text titles are listed under "Find journals & newspapers at Benedictine".

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Last updated: December 1, 2004