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Health Science Databases

  • Academic Search Complete
    Academic Search Complete is EBSCO's comprehensive scholarly database, covering most subjects. It contains more than 10,000 full text peer reviewed journals and magazines. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 15,000 journals.
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  • AccessEmergency Medicine
    AccessEmergency Medicine contains Emergency Medicine textbooks and procedural videos, a diagnostic self-assessment for exam prep, and a number of other helpful tools for medical students.
  • AccessMedicine
    Access Medicine provides access to more than 75 medical titles from McGraw-Hill, with regularly updated content, thousands of images and illustrations, interactive self-assessment, case files, diagnostic and point-of-care tools, a comprehensive search platform, and the ability to view from and download content to a mobile device.
  • AccessPharmacy
    Access Pharmacy allows users to select a core curriculum topic, browse by organ system, review textbooks, search across leading pharmacy online references and view optimized content on a mobile device.
  • AccessPhysiotherapy
    AccessPhysiotherapy provides access to resources for physical therapy students, educators, and those in practice seeking to maintain certification.
  • AccessSurgery
    AccessSurgery via McGraw-Hill provides leading surgery textbooks, instructional videos, and board examination review materials related to surgical medicine.
  • AMA Manual of Style, 11th Edition
    Online version of the AMA Manual of Style, 11th Edition.
  • Anatomy.TV
    Anatomy.TV provides a comprehensive interactive diagram package for anatomy-based courses. The resource includes nine anatomical region modules each containing 3D views, clinical text, dissection slides and videos, MRI correlations, biomechanics animations, and self-quizzes. In addition, a large set of Sports Therapies, Surgery, Dentistry, Radiology, and other modules are available.
  • Annual Reviews of Biomedical Sciences
    Annual Reviews publishes authoritative, analytic reviews in 29 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences.
  • ASME Digital Collection
    The American Society of Mechanical Engineers' current collection of 30 major journals in the field of Mechanical Engineering.
  • Bates' Visual Guide to Physical Examination
    Now in its Fifth Edition, Bates’ Visual Guide delivers head-to-toe and systems-based physical examination techniques for the (Advanced) Assessment or Introduction to Clinical Medicine course. The site features more than 8 hours of video content.
  • Biomedical Reference Collection: Comprehensive
    Designed for doctors, research scientists, students, clinical specialists and managers, this database provides nearly 900 full text journals, including nearly 850 peer-reviewed publications, covering virtually all areas of medical study. Journals available in full text in Biomedical Reference Collection: Comprehensive Edition are indexed in MEDLINE.
  • Cambridge Journals Online
    A package of nearly 500 journals in a wide variety of disciplines, published by Cambridge University Press.
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    Resources about diseases, conditions and other special topics, with health immunizations and recommendations for travelers worldwide.
  • CINAHL with Full Text
    This database covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, consumer health, and 17 allied health disciplines, and contains indexing for 2,717 nursing journals and publications dating back to 1982,including indexing for journals, books and book chapters, dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, pamphlets, educational software packages and audiovisual material. Full text for over 300 journals is provided.
  • Clinical Pharmacology
    Clinical Pharmacology is designed to provide timely, concise drug information and clinical reports for medical professionals and health care consumers.
    Restricted access to College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences faculty/students only.
  • ClinicalKey
    Upgraded and expanded from MD Consult, this point-of-care research and "clinical insight engine" contains hundreds of Elsevier's medical books, textbooks and very current journals, Procedures Consult's procedural videos, the First Consult POC interface, additional videos and images, practice guidelines, patient handouts, and drug information from Gold Standard.
  • Cochrane Library
    The Cochrane Library contains independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. It includes evidence from Cochrane and other systematic reviews, clinical trials, and more.
    Restricted access to College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences and School of Osteopathic Medicine only
  • CQ Researcher
    Comprehensive, non-biased reporting and analysis on issues shaping our world.
  • CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
    This 94th Edition of the Handbook includes new tables and major updates and expansions. This online version presents the major tables of numerical data in the form of interactive tables.
  • Directory of Open Access Journals
    Covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. There are now 1601 journals in the directory. Currently 400 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 73622 articles are included in the DOAJ service.
  • Drugs and Lactation Database (LactMed)
    A peer-reviewed and fully referenced database of drugs to which breastfeeding mothers may be exposed. Among the data included are maternal and infant levels of drugs, possible effects on breastfed infants and on lactation, and alternate drugs to consider.
  • DSM Library: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
    The most comprehensive, current, and critical resource for clinical practice available to today's mental health clinicians and researchers of all orientations. DSM-5® is used by health professionals, social workers,and forensic and legal specialists to diagnose and classify mental disorders, and is the product of more than 10 years of effort by hundreds of international experts in all aspects of mental health. DSM Library also includes the Handbook of Differential Diagnosis and Clinical Cases as supplementary material.
  • Duke eBooks
    A growing collection of scholarly ebooks from Duke University Press.
  • DynaMed
    DynaMed is a point-of-care clinical reference tool that includes more than 3,400 topics covering diseases, conditions, drugs and more. Created by physicians for physicians, DynaMed strives to provide current information with validity, relevance and convenience.
  • Ebook Central
    An e-book collection in multidisciplinary areas. You can read books online without any plugins. If you wish to view books in PDF mode, copy or print, you will need Adobe Reader installed. For downloading ebooks, Adobe Digital Editions is required.
  • EBSCOHost Ebooks
    This collection has more than 100,000 ebook titles in various subject areas.
  • Essential Evidence Plus
    A reference for clinical decision making, EE+ features over 13,000 topics, guidelines, abstracts, and summaries that cover the most common conditions, diseases, and procedures clinicians encounter. This clinical reference tool was designed for use by physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals on the frontline of patient care.
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  • Facts and Comparisons E Answers
    Facts and Comparisons E Answers allows access to a complete library of drug information references: Drug Facts and Comparisons®, Drug Interaction Facts™, Drug Interaction Facts™: Herbal Supplements and Food, MedFacts: Patient information, The Review of Natural Products, A to Z Drug Facts™, Nonprescription Drug Therapy™, Off-Label Drug Facts, and Drug Identifier.
  • Films on Demand
    Over 12,000 full-length, streaming educational videos in many academic disciplines.
  • Free Medical Journals
    Free and full-text of many important medical journals available online.
  • GibLib
    Stream on-demand courses, medical lectures, surgical cases and earn online continuing medical education.
  • Guidelines and Measures
    Comprehensive database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related documents. Structured summaries with links to full-text guidelines when available.
  • Health News Daily via F-D-C Reports
    Health News Daily provides daily coverage of a broad spectrum of healthcare issues including prescription pharmaceuticals, medical devices and diagnostics, over-the-counter pharmaceuticals and dietary supplements, biomedical research, federal health policy, Medicare/Medicaid, technology reimbursement and cost containment. Special emphasis is placed on regulatory and legislative developments.
  • Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
    Provides more than 400 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for over 500 journals. This product offering also includes USP Pharmacopoeia DI: Volume II Advice for the Lay Patient and Stedman's Medical Dictionary.
  • HealthFinder
    A gateway consumer health information web site whose goal is "to improve consumer access to selected health information from government agencies, their many partner organizations, and other reliable sources that serve the public interest." A variety of menu lists on its home page link to online journals, medical dictionaries, minority health, as well as prevention and self-care. The developer/sponsor of this site is the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Department of Health and Human Services with other listed agencies.
  • JSTOR
    JSTOR is a collection of full text scholarly journals in a wide variety of subject areas, providing entire backfiles of key journals. Campbell has access to JSTOR Arts and Sciences I through VIII and XI, as well as specific collections for Life Sciences, Religion and Theology.
  • Lab Tests Online
    Understand lab tests that are part of routine care, as well as diagnosis and treatment. Search by test, condition, or recommended screenings.
  • Lexidrug
    Provides information on drug information, geriatric dosage, natural products, poisoning & toxicology, recently approved medications, laboratory tests, infectious diseases, pediatric dosage, oncology drug information, drug images, drug interactions, diagnostic procedures, anesthesiology and critical care drug information, and nutrient depletion drug information.
  • Liebert Online Archive
    Liebert Online provides electronic access to Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. peer-reviewed journals in discipline areas of biomedical research/life sciences, biotechnology, clinical medicine/surgery, complimentary/alternative medicine, engineering/informatics, law, psychology, and public health/policy.
  • LWW Health Library via Wolters Kluwer (Full Text)
    LWW Health Library contains 35 major health textbooks in an electronic format, including key texts in medicine and allied health fields.
  • LWW Total Access Collection
    The Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Total Access Collection is a collection of over 310 journals targeting a variety of medical information needs, including various specialties of medicine as well as nursing and bioscience.
  • MasterFILE Premier
    General reference magazines and publications covering a wide-range of subject areas including business, health, education, general science and multicultural issues. Includes peer reviewed publications.
  • Mayo Clinic
    An excellent consumer source of information. Editors of the site include over 1,200 physicians, scientists, writers and educators at the Mayo Clinic, a non-profit institution with more than 100 years of history in patient care, medical research and education. The site is an extension of the Mayo Clinic commitment to provide health education to patients and the general public.
  • Medical Letter, The (Full Text)
    Includes the publications: The Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics and Treatment Guidelines.
  • MEDLINEplus
    MEDLINEplus has extensive information for health professionals and consumers from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on hundreds of diseases and conditions. There are also lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia and dictionaries, health information in Spanish, extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to thousands of clinical trials.
  • MEDLINEPlus Drugs and Supplements
    Guide to prescription and over-the-counter medications, herbs, and supplements.
  • Merck Manual Professional Version
    Explains disorders, their symptoms, how they're diagnosed, and how they can be prevented or treated. For doctors and medical students.
  • MICROMEDEX Healthcare Series
    The MICROMEDEX Healthcare Series provides a wide range of databases tailored to meet the needs of healthcare professionals, including information related to drugs, acute care, toxicology, and patient education.
  • National Cancer Institute
    Comprehensive descriptions of cancer research programs and clinical trials.
  • National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
    Complementary and alternative healing practices such as aromatherapy, accupuncture, and herbal medicine. Offers resources and pamphlets.
  • National Institute of Mental Health
    Symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of various mental illnesses. Includes brochures, information sheets, reports, press releases, and fact sheets.
  • National Institute on Aging
    NIA, one of the 27 Institutes and Centers of NIH, leads a broad scientific effort to understand the nature of aging and to extend the healthy, active years of life. NIA is the primary Federal agency supporting and conducting Alzheimer's disease research.
  • Natural Medicines
    Natural Medicines provides evidence-based information about traditional and natural therapies, in order to inform clinical and consumer practice.
  • NC Health Info
    Online guide to quality health and medical information and local health services throughout North Carolina.
  • NC LIVE
    NC LIVE is North Carolina’s statewide library cooperative, supporting 200+ public and academic libraries across North Carolina.
  • North Carolina Public Health
    Information on health precautions, links to local health departments, how to get birth certificates.
  • OSTMED.DR (Osteopathic Medical Digital Repository) Best Bet
    A full-text digital library of osteopathic medicine literature containing more than 30,000 citations.
  • OvidSP
    OvidSP provides access to the Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Total Access Collection, a collection of over 310 journals targeting a variety of medical information needs, including various specialties of medicine as well as nursing and bioscience. This collection is designed to support clinical researchers as well as students and professors.
  • Oxford Journals Online
    Over 200 academic and research journals covering a broad range of subject areas.
  • PEDro: Physiotherapy Evidence Database
    PEDro is a free database of over 27,000 randomised trials, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy. For each trial, review or guideline, PEDro provides the citation details and the abstract and a link to the full text, where possible. All trials on PEDro are independently assessed for quality. These quality ratings are used to quickly guide users to trials that are more likely to be valid and to contain sufficient information to guide clinical practice.
  • Pharmaceutical Approvals Monthly
    Pharmaceutical Approvals Monthly provides in-depth coverage of U.S. drug development and approval process, including behind-the-scenes analyses of FDA's approval decisions. This specialized monthly also provides extensive listings of pending applications at FDA and their user fee goals, as well as all of FDA's approval actions.
  • Pharmacist Letter
    A subscription service for pharmacists to keep them up to date on new developments in drug therapy. The service consists of a monthly letter, plus Detail-Documents available 24 hours a day. Pharmacists receive very short concise updates and advice. The Detail-Documents provide in-depth coverage answering many specific questions related to each topic.
  • Pink Sheet, The
    Founded in 1939, "The Pink Sheet" provides in-depth coverage of the prescription pharmaceutical industry. Known as "The Bible" to the prescription pharmaceutical industry, this specialized weekly publication covers regulatory activities of FDA, FTC and CMS; Congress; industry news, such as mergers and acquisitions, new product introductions and executive changes; and financial news, such as companies' sales and earning performance and stock activity. The publication covers research, manufacturing, distribution and the retail sector.
  • ProQuest Central
    This resource provides access to 27 of ProQuest's most highly used databases, with a variety of content types across over 160 subjects, making this the broadest single research resource in the world. These 27 databases cover the full range of academic disciplines.
  • ProQuest Consumer Health Database
    Magazines and journals covering consumer health topics, such as sports injuries, women's health, food and nutrition, midwifery, eye care and dentistry.
  • ProQuest Health and Medical Collection
    Clinical research plus consumer and health administration titles.
  • ProQuest Healthcare Administration Database
    Comprehensive coverage of the healthcare industry including management, administration, regulations, policies, and planning. All journals are available full text, including all charts, diagrams, graphs, tables, photos, and other graphic elements so essential to research.
  • ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Database
    Journals and dissertations covering nursing, allied health, and alternative and complementary medicine.
  • ProQuest Public Health Database
    This database provides access to the core literature in the field of public health.
  • ProQuest Research Library
    General reference database from business and political science to literature and psychology scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and daily news content, accessible to readers and researchers at every level.
  • PsycINFO 1887-Current
    Contains more than 2 million citations and summaries of scholarly jounral articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s. The database also includes information about the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and others.
  • PubMed Best Bet
    PubMed® comprises more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
  • PubMed Central
    An archive of life science journals including BMJ, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, and others.
  • SAGE Open
    SAGE Open is an open access publication from SAGE. It publishes peer-reviewed, original research and review articles in an interactive, open access format. Articles may span the full spectrum of the social and behavioral sciences and the humanities.
  • Sanford Guide
    Sanford Guide is a leading evidence-based clinical reference guide for diagnosis and treatment recommendations.
  • ScienceDirect College Edition
    ScienceDirect is a full-text scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters from more than 2,500 peer-reviewed journals and more than 11,000 books.
  • Scopus Best Bet
    Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, featuring tools to track, analyze and visualize research. For peer-reviewed research published since 1995, Scopus delivers the most comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts, and humanities.
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  • SPORTDiscus with Full Text
    SPORTDiscus is a comprehensive resource covering sport, physical fitness, exercise, sports medicine, physical education, kinesiology, coaching, training, sport administration, sport law & legislation, facility design & management, physical therapy, nutrition, exercise physiology, recreation, and a variety of related disciplines. Full Text is available for over 530 journals.
  • Springer LINK Contemporary (1997 - Present)
    SpringerLink is Springer's online full-text archive for journals and books. SpringerLink currently offers over 2,600 fully peer-reviewed journals and a growing roster of book series, comprising more than 46,700 books online.
  • Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology
    Stahl Online provides complete access to Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology, a key reference work for understanding the effects of drugs on psychology. It also includes a number of companion resources including the Prescriber's Guide, Stahl's Illustrated Substance Abuse, and others.
  • Tan Sheet
    Published weekly, "The Tan Sheet" provides in-depth news and analysis related to the nonprescription pharmaceutical and dietary supplement industries. The spectrum of coverage includes: Congress; regulatory activities of FDA, FTC and CPSC; self-regulatory agencies, such as the National Advertising Division of the Council for Better Business Bureaus; business and marketing news, such as Rx-to-OTC switches, product testing, new product introductions and advertising; mergers, acquisitions and executive changes; financial news, such as company stock performance and sales and earning reports; and regular listings of product trademarks.
  • Taylor and Francis Online
    E-journal subscriptions in social work and pharmacy, including the following journals:Child & Family Behavior Therapy, Journal of Gerontological Social Work, Journal of Pharmaceutical Marketing & Management, Journal of Teaching in Social Work,Social Work in Health Care, and Social Work With Groups.
  • Thieme MedOne
    Online access to textbooks, atlases, and other aids for medical and health science studies. A full license would include unlimited downloads to e-readers, laptops, and other devices.
  • Trip Database Pro
    TRIP (Turning Research Into Practice) Database is a clinical search engine quickly and easily searches high-quality research evidence to support evidence-based practice. In addition to research evidence, the TRIP Database can be used to search other content types including images, videos, patient information leaflets, educational courses and news.
  • Wiley Online Library
    Online editions of the majority of Wiley's 400+ scientific, technical, medical and professional journals.
  • Women's Health
    US government resource on women’s health topics: pregnancy, body image, HIV/AIDS, girls health, heart health, menopause, mental health, quitting smoking, and domestic violence.
  • WorldCat (the OCLC Online Union Catalog)
    OCLC catalog of books, web resources, and other material worldwide.

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