The following library databases and resources will help you find information on nursing and other allied health professions. To learn how to use them effectively, you can watch the following videos.
Academic Search Complete
This link opens in a new windowThousands of academic journal articles for a wide range of subjects, including business strategies and concepts.
AMED Allied and complementary medicine databases
This link opens in a new windowProduced by the Health Care Information Service of the British Library, AMED is a specialized bibliographic database designed for physicians, therapists, medical researchers, historians and clinicians looking to learn more about alternative and allied therapies and related subjects.
CINAHL Ultimate
This link opens in a new windowCINAHL indexes the top nursing and allied health literature available including nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses Association
Medline
This link opens in a new windowMEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) premier bibliographic database that contains more than 30 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine.
Nursing & Allied Health Database
This link opens in a new windowThe Nursing & Allied Health Database has a diverse mix of scholarly literature, clinical training videos, reference materials, and evidence-based resources, including dissertations and systematic reviews.
Pubmed
This link opens in a new windowPubMed is a free resource supporting the search and retrieval of biomedical and life sciences literature with the aim of improving health–both globally and personally. The PubMed database contains more than 36 million citations and abstracts of biomedical literature.
Cochrane Library
This link opens in a new windowThe Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making.
Human Anatomy Atlas (Visible Body)
This link opens in a new windowA comprehensive 3D atlas of the human body. Also available as an app. Includes structures from all body systems: nervous, skeletal, circulatory, muscular, digestive, urinary, lymphatic, endocrine, and reproductive.
PsycINFO
This link opens in a new windowPsycInfo remains one of the most current resources available for exploring and locating behavioural and social science research.
Academic Search Complete
This link opens in a new windowAcademic Search Complete (ASC), designed specifically for academic institutions, is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals.
In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.
ProQuest
This link opens in a new windowLarge full-text database providing journal access in the following subject areas: Arts and humanities, design and applied arts, business, health and medicine, history, literature, newspapers, science and technology and social sciences.
Sage Premier
This link opens in a new windowSAGE is the world's 5th largest journals publisher. Our portfolio includes more than 1000 journals spanning the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology, and Medicine, and more than 400 are published on behalf of learned societies and institutions.
ScienceDirect
This link opens in a new windowScienceDirect contains over 25% of the world's science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information.
SCOPUS
This link opens in a new windowScopus is a comprehensive scientific, medical, technical and social science database containing all relevant literature.
Box of Broadcasts
This link opens in a new windowBox of Broadcasts is a on demand TV and radio service for education. It allows staff and students at subscribing institutions to record programmes from over 65 free-to-air channels, and search an extensive archive.
ProQuest dissertations & theses: UK and Ireland
This link opens in a new windowThe ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global (PQDT) database is the world's most comprehensive curated collection of multi-disciplinary dissertations and theses from around the world, offering over 6 million citations and 4 million full-text works from thousands of universities.
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