Tips for finding, evaluating, and citing peer reviewed articles, as well as publications from professional associations, and government and policy organizations.
Health Sciences Databases (ProQuest)This link opens in a new windowSearches 10 health sciences databases simultaneously: Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database: Health & Medicine, Career & Technical Education Database: Health & Medicine, Consumer Health Database, Health & Medical Collection, Health Administration Database, India Database: Health & Medicine, Nursing & Allied Health Database, Psychology Database, Public Health Database, and Research Library: Health & Medicine.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic EditionThis link opens in a new windowProvides access to nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines as well as the Lexi-PALS Drug Guide.
CINAHL Plus with Full TextThis link opens in a new windowComprehensive coverage of all areas of nursing and allied health with access to more than 770 journals and 275 ebooks.
ScienceDirect Health & Life Sciences and Physical Sciences CollectionsThis link opens in a new windowAccess to over 1,550 full text journals in health & life sciences, chemistry, computer science, physics, mathematics, and earth & planetary sciences. On the results page, green icons mean the full text is available (white means abstract only). Please note: Articles are available from 1995 to present only.
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Assoc.This link opens in a new windowFull text available from 1998-present. An international, peer-reviewed, general medical journal that contains groundbreaking research and insightful commentary from leaders across the broad spectrum of health care.
Ovid: Full Text Nursing & Allied Health Journals and eBooksThis link opens in a new windowSearch across a targeted collection of full text journals and eBooks selected by Excelsior faculty that cover the nursing and allied health fields. You can also use the OVID Emcare database to browse citations of articles.
PubMed CentralThis link opens in a new windowA free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature and primary research reports from the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).
Multidisciplinary eBook databases:
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)This link opens in a new windowMultidisciplinary eBooks representing a broad range of subjects.
Ebook Central (ProQuest)This link opens in a new windoweBooks on a range of subjects such as business, information technology, education, engineering, health, history, humanities, life & physical sciences, and social and behavioral sciences.
Films on Demand (Health & Medicine)The Health & Medicine collection of the Films On Demand database includes over 2,100 full-length streaming videos in the fields of health sciences and medicine
Alexander Street Press (Health Sciences)The Health & Medicine collection of the Alexander Street Press database includes over 2,500 full-length streaming videos in the fields of health sciences and medicine.
ImageQuest (Britannica)This link opens in a new windowNearly 3 million rights-cleared images from more than 50 collections including Getty Images, the National Portrait Gallery of London, and the National Geographic Society.
Credo ReferenceThis link opens in a new windowSpecialized reference eBooks for background information on all subjects, including audio, video, and image results.
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Credo ReferenceThis link opens in a new windowSpecialized reference eBooks for background information on all subjects, including audio, video, and image results.
Britannica AcademicThis link opens in a new windowThe largest, most authoritative encyclopedia in the world, this database contains articles, maps, images, videos, and yearbooks from 1993 to present. Use it instead of Wikipedia for your research!
Gale eBooksThis link opens in a new windowMore than 50 reference eBooks in business, communications, history, law, literature, medicine, nation & world, science, and technology.
