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Articles: Journals or Newspapers (12)

• Biological Abstracts

  Includes citations and abstracts from over 6500 international life sciences journals. Fields covered include: biology, botany, zoology, biotechnology, and environmental studies. Coverage: 1980-.

• CINAHL with Full Text - Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health

  Provides authoritative coverage of the literature related to nursing and the allied health fields. Coverage: 1982-.

• Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

  Includes the full text of the regularly updated systematic reviews of the effects of healthcare prepared by the Cochrane Collaboration. Coverage: Current issue.

• Consumer Health Complete

  Provides content covering areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to complementary and holistic medicine. Designed to support the information needs of patients. Covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition, etc.

• Evidence-Based Medicine

  Consists of two journals: ACP Journal Club, a publication of the American College of Physicians, and Evidence-Based Medicine, a joint publication with the British Medical Journal Group. The editors screen the top clinical journals on a regular basis and identify studies that are both methodologically sound and clinically relevant. They write an enhanced abstract of the chosen articles and provide a commentary on the value of the article for clinical practice. Using this source, clinicians can quickly understand and apply to their practice important changes in medical knowledge, without having to read and synthesize for themselves thousands of journal articles. Coverage: 1991-.

• Health Source: Consumer Edition

  A consumer health database that indexes and abstracts over 170 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications. Full text is available for many titles. Also included is USP Pharmacopoeia DI: Volume II Advice for the Lay Patient, 20 health research books, thousands of essays from Clinical Reference Systems, and over 1,000 health-related pamphlets. Coverage: varies.

• Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition

  Provides indexing and abstracts for over 550 scholarly journals. Full text is available for many titles. Also included are USP Pharmacopoeia DI: Volume II Advice for the Lay Patient and Stedman's Medical Dictionary. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong. Coverage: varies.

• Physical Education Index

  Topics include physical education curricula, sports medicine, dance, sport law, kinesiology, motor learning, recreation, standardized fitness tests, sports equipment, business and marketing, coaching and training, sport sociology/psychology, health education and physical therapy. Coverage: 1970-.

• PsycINFO (with PsycARTICLES)

  Provides comprehensive coverage for the field of psychology. Contains abstracts from articles, books, book chapters, journals, dissertations, and other sources. Links to full text in PsycARTICLES. Coverage: 1806-.

• PubMed

  PubMed provides access to MEDLINE, a database of citations covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and preclinical sciences. Other services within PubMed include the Journal Browser, MeSH (Medical Subject Heading) Browser, Citation Matcher, and Clinical Queries. A user-friendly online tutorial is available at the site. PubMed also provides access to molecular biology databases in the National Center for Biotechnology Information s (NCBI) Entrez retrieval system with components for searching DNA and protein sequences, 3-D protein structure data, population study data sets, and assemblies of complete genomes. Coverage: 1949-.

• Science Citation Index

  A multidisciplinary index, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the sciences. It indexes more than 5,700 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines, covering approximately 2,100 more journals than its SCI print and CD-ROM counterparts, with all cited references captured. Some of the disciplines covered include: agriculture, neuroscience, astronomy, oncology, biochemistry, pediatrics, biology, pharmacology, biotechnology, physics, chemistry, plant sciences, computer science, psychiatry, materials science, surgery, mathematics, veterinary science, medicine, and zoology. Coverage: 1974-.

• SPORTDiscus

  Citations and some abstracts from periodicals, books, conference proceedings, dissertations and theses, research papers, etc. SPORTDiscus covers the areas of: sports, physical fitness, sport science and recreation. Coverage: 1830-.

Books, E-books (1)

• Springer Protocols

  Springer Protocols is a database of reproducible, step-by-step laboratory protocols in the Life and Biomedical Sciences. Compiles protocols from book series Methods in Molecular Biology, Methods in Molecular Medicine, Methods in Biotechnology, Methods in Pharmacology and Toxicology, and Neuromethods, as well as from a number of Laboratory Handbooks. Coverage: 1980-.

Encyclopedias, Reference (3)

• AccessScience

  A general science database. Includes articles from the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia and Yearbooks of Science and Technology, biographies of well-known scientists, multimedia & images, science news, and more.

• DynaMed

• UpToDate

  An evidence-based knowledge system to help clinicians at the point of care. All UpToDate content is written and edited by a global community of physicians, experts in their specialties. Content is continually reviewed to ensure it is of the highest quality and based on the latest evidence.

Statistics & Data (2)

• OECD Health Data

  Systematically collated data on a great number of key aspects of the health care systems in the 30 OECD Member countries within their general demographic, economic, and social contexts. Coverage: 1960-.

• SBRnet - Sports Business Research Network

  A continuously updated resource providing market research and industry news on all aspects of sporting goods, sports equipment, participation, broadcasting, and marketing. The information is drawn from journals, newsletters, government reports, and trade association reports. Coverage: 1996-.