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CINAHL Plus with Full Text        1937 - present Provides full text for over 750 journals indexed in CINAHL. Contains more than 600,000 full-text articles dating back to 1937. The database also provides full text for more than 220 books/monographs.

Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials        Current Contains bibliographic references of definitive controlled trials in health care.

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews        Current Includes the full text of the regularly updated systematic reviews of the effects of healthcare prepared by The Cochrane Collaboration. The two types of reviews are Complete reviews and Protocols. Protocols are the background, objectives and methods for reviews currently being prepared.

EBSCOhost        Coverage varies by database Provides access to wide variety of databases covering business, communication, computers and applied science, education, environment, health, history, humanities, music, news, nursing, psychology, religion, and women's studies. Also includes the Buros Institute publications Mental Measurements Yearbook and Tests in Print, and several Spanish language databases.

Evidence Based Medicine Reviews Multifile        Coverage varies by database Allows you to search simultaneously the four Evidence Based Medicine Reviews databases: ACP Journal Club (ACP), Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (formerly Cochrane Controlled Trials Register-CCTR)(CENTRAL), Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR), and Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE). Allows a maximum of 3 users at a time across all four databases.

Health Sciences: A SAGE Full-Text Collection       Coverage varies by journal Includes the full text of 26 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back over twenty years, and encompassing over several thousand articles.

Health Source: Consumer Edition        Current Provides full-text consumer health magazines, health-related pamphlets and health reference books. Also contains Clinical Reference Systems reports (in English and Spanish) and generic drug patient education sheets from Lexi-PAL Drug Guide.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition        Coverage varies Provides indexing, abstracts, and scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines, with particularly strong coverage of nursing and allied health. Also includes drug patient education sheets from Lexi-PAL Drug Guide.

LexisNexis Academic       Varies Provides full-text documents from business, legal, medical, and reference publications with a variety of flexible search options.

Medline (Cambridge)        1997 - present MEDLINE on this service contains citations and abstracts which cover a broad range of medical topics relating to research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, and health care services. Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE contains all records published in Index Medicus and corresponds in part to the printed International Nursing Index with significant material from Index to Dental Literature.

Medline (EBSCO)     1965 - present Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE allows users to search abstracts from current biomedical journals. MEDLINE contains all records published in Index Medicus and corresponds in part to the printed International Nursing Index with significant material from Index to Dental Literature.

Medline (FirstSearch)       1950 - present Includes records with substantial abstracts in all areas of medicine. Corresponds to the print indexes: Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing Index.

Medline - ISI Web of Knowledge       1950 - present Covers biomedicine and life sciences, bioengineering, public health, clinical care, and plant and animal science. Search capabilities include MesH terms and CAS registry numbers. Produced by the U. S. National Library of Medicine.

Mosby's Nursing Consult       Coverage varies by resource Brings the leading resources together in one integrated online service to help nurses efficiently find answers to pressing clinical questions. Includes the latest drug information, patient education, professional journals, reference books, current news, clinical practice, and evidence-based content.

Science Direct        Coverage varies by journal Indexes high-quality, peer-reviewed research journals in the sciences and includes links to many full text articles.

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