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Health Communication Databases
Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
A research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth encompassing the breadth of the communication discipline, with abstracts for more than 500 journals and full text for over 380.
Terms of Use. Coverage: 1901-present.
PubMed (Open Access) This link opens in a new window
Contains over 35 million citations for biomedical literature from Medline, life science journals, and ebooks. PubMed utilizes the NLM-controlled vocabulary thesaurus MeSH (Medical Subject Headings).
Terms of Use. Coverage: 1966-present.
Routledge Handbooks Online This link opens in a new window
Chapman’s access includes specific Asian Studies, Communication and Media, Health and Social Care, History, Music, Performance, Philosophy, and Security Studies collections. To access, click a subject in the middle of the page, then check "Full access only". | Terms of Use. Coverage: 2010-2016.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Serves as a comprehensive resource for nursing and allied health by providing indexing for over 4,175 journals back to 1937 and select full text coverage back to 1937, plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments, clinical trials, books, dissertations, conference proceedings, software, and audiovisual materials. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1937-present. Restricted to 8 users at a time.
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
Contains over 5 million citations and summaries of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and dissertations from the behavioral and social sciences in 29 languages from 50 countries.
Terms of Use. Coverage: 1872-present.
PsycARTICLES This link opens in a new window
Provides a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology and covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research in psychology.
Terms of Use. Coverage: 1894-present.
CIOS This link opens in a new window
Publishes interrelated census-level databases providing different views on the communication field's scholarship, people, and academic departments. Includes the Visual Communication Concept Explorer, ComAbstracts, ComIndex Online, ComVista, and ComAnalytics.
Communication Abstracts This link opens in a new window
International coverage of major journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study.
Terms of Use. Coverage: 1947-present.
Alt HealthWatch This link opens in a new window
Focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic, and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. This database provides full text for articles, from more than 150 international and often peer-reviewed reports, proceedings as well as association and consumer newsletters. Also includes hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts.
Terms of Use. Coverage: 1990-present.
Health Source - Consumer Edition This link opens in a new window
Provides access to over 80 full-text consumer health magazines. Also included in this database is searchable full text for current health-related pamphlets and nearly 130 health reference books.
Terms of Use.
Health Source - Nursing/Academic This link opens in a new window
Provides nearly 550 scholarly full-text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong. Also features information from the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.Terms of Use.
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Database This link opens in a new window
Provides users with reliable healthcare information covering nursing, allied health, and alternative and complementary medicines. Provides abstracting and indexing for more than 850 titles, with over 715 titles in full-text, as well as more than 12,000 full text dissertations representing the most rigorous scholarship in nursing and related fields.
Terms of Use. Coverage: 1986-present.
ScienceDirect Freedom Collection This link opens in a new window
Platform providing access to all Elsevier journal content and select books, as well as journal titles from other publishers. Multidisciplinary in scope with the strongest content in the health, life, phyical, and social sciences.
Terms of Use. Coverage: 1995-present.