Merner-Pfeiffer Library: Research Guide - Health Science

Databases

Use these print and online resources for finding articles and essays on your topic.

Use these first:

• Health Reference Center Academic (TEL) – Full text of articles from journals in the health sciences.
• Health and Wellness Resource Center (TEL) – Full text of articles and health reference books with a focus on consumer health information.
• Medline Plus - The National Library of Medicine's web site for consumer health information. The site offers authoritative, up-to-date health information, without advertisements, and is available anytime, anywhere for free.
• PsycInfo - Index to articles in psychology since the 1800s, and to books and chapters in psychology since 1987. Links to full text of many articles. Also searches Psychology and Behavioral Sciences which contains the full text of 510 journals in psychology, methods, education, and nursing.
• PubMed - 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, plus a growing number of full text articles.

Need more? Use these:

• BioMed Central – Free full text of research project results
• HighWire Press - Free full text access for 1.3 Million articles in Biological and Medical Science.
• LexisNexis Academic – Includes over 200 scientific and medical journals.
• National Library of Medicine’s Specialized Information Services - Includes toxicology, chemistry (ChemID), and environmental health databases
• PubMed Central (PMC) - Free digital archive of over one million fulltext biomedical and life sciences journal articles.  Most of the articles can be linked to from PubMed, although PMC has content not indexed in PubMed.
• Testing and Education Reference Center - Search for colleges and degree programs, also take practice tests for GRE, MCAT, GMAT, LSAT, NCLEX, TOEFL, PRAXIS I and II, and many more.
• Annual Reviews – Full text from Annual Reviews in medicine, nutrition, physiology, public health and others, 1996 to the present.
• Project Muse – Full text of 5 medical and health journals

 

Web Sites

• AEGIS-AIDS Education Global Information System
• Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs-information about careers in allied health
• Complementary and Alternative Medicine Citation Index on PubMed
• Centers for Disease Control
• Global Health.gov
• Harvard World Health News
• Healthfinder.gov Consumer health information from the Department of Health and Human Services
• HealthWorld Online Alternative Medicine
• HIV InSite
• InteliHealth Harvard Medical School health information
• Mayo Clinic
• LUMEN: Structure of the Human Body
• Merck Manual Online
• National Center for Health Statistics
• Medline Plus Consumer health information from NLM and NIH
• Nutrition.gov
• RxList: The Internet Drug Index
• Tennessee Electronic Library
• Transcultural and Multicultural Health Links
• USP (U.S. Pharmacopeia) Official public standards–setting authority for all prescription and OTC medicines and other health care products manufactured or sold in the U.S.

Reference Sources

Use these sources for selecting and narrowing your topic, finding bibliographies, and doing background reading.

• American College of Physicians Complete Home Medical Guide– R RC81.A5386
• Black's Medical Dictionary– R R121.B598
• Encyclopedia of Human Nutrition– R QP141.E526, 3 vol.
• Encyclopedia of Life Sciences – Encyclopedia articles covering life sciences and biomedicine, published by Nature Publishing
• Encyclopedia of Mental Health– R RA790.5.E53, 3 vol.
• Exploring Health Care Careers– R R690.E97, 2 vol.
• Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide– R RC81.H38
• Magill's Medical Guide– R RC41.M34, 3 vol.
• Merck Manual– R RM127.M4
• Merck Manual of Medical Information– R RC81.M535
• Mount Sinai School of Medicine Complete Book of Nutrition– R RM217.2.M68
• Oxford Companion to Medicine– R R121.O88
• Oxford Reference Online – Includes full text of several medical and nursing dictionaries
• Physicians' Desk Reference– R RS75.P5
• Physicians' Desk Reference for Non Prescription Drugs– R RM671.A1P48
• Stedman's Medical Dictionary– R R121.A53