Nursing and Allied Health Databases
(see also
Food and Nutrition,
Health Sciences - Articles, and
Health Sciences - Reference Books
[Indexes]
[Online Books]
[Also of Interest]
- Indexes to Journals and Books:
- CINAHL
Plus with Full Text (Ebsco)
 
- Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature
provides indexing for 3,024 journals from the fields of nursing, biomedicine, health
sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health, and
17 other allied health disciplines, with indexing back to 1937, as well as the full text
337 of journals (some going back to 1937) plus legal cases, clinical innovations,
critical paths, drug records, research instruments, and clinical trials.
Includes Pre-CINAHL, with the newest journal articles that are in the process of being indexed, and
CINAHL Select, with the full text of an additional 170 journals.
Also indexes health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings,
standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals, and more. Includes
searchable cited references for more than 1,160 journals.
- InfoTrac
Nursing and Allied Health Collection (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
 
- Provides the full text of over 300 journals, magazines, and newsletters.
- OT
Search: The Occupational Therapy Bibliographic System (AOTF)
- Produced by the American Occupational Therapy Foundation, this indexes
occupational therapy and related subject areas,
such as rehabilitation, education, psychiatry, psychology, health
care delivery, and health administration. Also covers the related allied
health, biomedical and psychosocial literature. Includes journals,
monographs, dissertations, theses, conference proceedings, and
audio-visual materials.
- LIUCat
on the Web:
- The online public access catalog of Long Island University's
six campuses. This can be searched from any computer. No password is needed.
- Online Encyclopedias and Books:
Nursing -
Allied Health
- Nursing:
- Churchill
Livingstone's Dictionary of Nursing (Credo/xrefer)
- (See database page for description)
- ebrary (ebrary)
- Currently
offers over 25,000 full-text books, sheet music titles, maps, reports, and other authoritative documents from more
than 180 leading academic, trade, and professional publishers. The collections are particularly strong in
business, economics, education, computers, technology, science, medicine, history,
language, literature, humanities, politics, and social sciences. Publishers include The McGraw-Hill Companies,
Random House, Penguin Classics, Taylor
& Francis, Yale University Press, John Wiley & Sons, Greenwood, and more.
- Note: to use ebrary, you must first download and install the
ebrary Reader on your computer (more information).
- Gale
Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Written for students and professionals in the field. Entries cover
topics in body systems and functions, conditions and common diseases,
issues and theories, techniques and practices, and devices and equipment.
Also discusses the roles of all major health professionals.
- Mosby's
Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, & Health Professionals (Credo/xrefer)
- (See database page for description)
- Allied Health:
(see also: Food and Nutrition
and Health Sciences - Reference Books)
- Baillière's
Midwives' Dictionary (Credo/xrefer)
- (See database page for description)
- Community
Resource Database of Long Island (Middle Country Public Library)
- Directory of community
services and resources with information on more
than 11,000 health, human service, and
education agencies and programs
such as parenting education,
child care and camps, services for persons with
disabilities, education and training
opportunities, support groups, health facilities, individual and
family counseling, food pantries,
hotlines, AIDS/HIV treatment, child abuse and domestic violence
programs, financial management, library
programs, housing and much more serving
citizens in Suffolk and Nassau Counties. (No password needed)
- Gale
Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Presents current, unbiased information on alternative and
complementary medical practices, including reflexology, acupressure, acupuncture,
chelation therapy, kinesiology, yoga, chiropractic, Feldenkrais, polarity therapy,
detoxification, naturopathy, Chinese medicine, biofeedback, Ayurveda, and osteopathy.
Information on recommended therapies for specific disorders and diseases,
medicinal uses for plants and herbs, are balanced by conclusions of studies
on efficacy and analysis of current levels of acceptance by traditional scientists
and doctors.
- Gale
Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Written for students and professionals in the field. Entries cover
topics in body systems and functions, conditions and common diseases,
issues and theories, techniques and practices, and devices and equipment.
Also discusses the roles of all major health professionals.
- Handbook
of Death and Dying
(GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- (See database page for description)
- International
Dictionary of Homeopathy (Credo/xrefer)
- (See database page for description)
- Macmillan
Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
(GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- (See database page for description)
- Mosby's
Dictionary of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (Credo/xrefer)
- (See database page for description)
- Mosby's
Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, & Health Professionals (Credo/xrefer)
- (See database page for description)
- Mosby's
Emergency Dictionary (Credo/xrefer)
- (See database page for description)
- Mosby's
Handbook of Herbs & Natural Supplements (Credo/xrefer)
- (See database page for description)
- Natural
Medicine Instructions for Patients (Credo/xrefer)
- (See database page for description)
- Also of Interest:
- Alt-HealthWatch
(Ebsco)
- Is a full-text database of periodicals,
peer-reviewed journals,
academic and professional publications, magazines,
consumer newsletters and
newspapers, research reports, and association
newsletters focused on complementary,
alternative, and integrated approaches to health
care and wellness across the full
spectrum of more than two hundred therapies,
modalities and perspectives addressed by
integrated medicine.
- Health
and Safety Science Abstracts (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
- Covers public health, safety, and industrial hygiene including
aviation and aerospace safety, environmental safety, nuclear
safety, medical safety, occupational safety, natural disasters,
ergonomics, recreation safety, food, and more, as well as
health and safety related aspects of pollution, waste disposal,
radiation, pesticides, epidemics, and other phenomena. Includes
government reports, journal articles, conference proceedings,
books, and other publications. Covers 1981 to the present.
- Risk
Abstracts (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
- Provides broad, multidisciplinary coverage of risk - the
combination of the magnitude and probability of adverse effects -
ranging from public and environmental health to social issues and
psychological aspects. Encompasses risk arising
from industrial, technological, environmental, and other
sources, with an emphasis on the identification, assessment,
alleviation, and management of risk of all kinds.
Covers 1990 to the present.
Database descriptions are adapted from each database's website.
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