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PubMed (Open Access) This link opens in a new window Provides access to bibliographic information that includes MEDLINE as well as out-of-scope citations (e.g., articles on plate tectonics or astrophysics) from certain MEDLINE journals, primarily general science and chemistry journals, for which the life sciences articles are indexed for MEDLINE. MEDLINE/PubMed utilizes the NLM controlled vocabulary thesaurus MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Terms of Use. Coverage: 1966-present.
SPORTDiscus This link opens in a new window Offers comprehensive, bibliographic coverage of sport, fitness, and related disciplines. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1800-present. Restricted to 4 users at a time.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window Provides access to the worlds leading scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Includes: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science, Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Social Science & Humanities, Book Citation Index - Science, Book Citation Index - Social Sciences & Humanities, Current Chemical Reactions, and Index Chemicus. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1898-present.
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.
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.

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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.
Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window A collection of six databases containing independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making: The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR), Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effect (DARE), Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Cochrane Methodology Register (CMR), Health Technology Assessment Database (HTA), and NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHSEED). Terms of Use.
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.
Ovid Nursing Database This link opens in a new window Includes information from Journals@Ovid and MEDLINE, the United States National Library of Medicine's (NLM) premier bibliographic database. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1946-present.

PEDro (Physiotherapy Evidence Database) Free database of over 32,000 randomised trials, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy.

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.

Physical Education Index This link opens in a new window Provides records which are indexed and classified from peer-reviewed journals, report literature, conference proceedings, trade magazines, patents, articles from the popular press, and other publications. Features a wide variety of subjects, ranging from physical education curricula to sports medicine to dance. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1970-present.
SPORTDiscus This link opens in a new window Offers comprehensive, bibliographic coverage of sport, fitness, and related disciplines. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1800-present. Restricted to 4 users at a time.

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window Multidisciplinary partial full-text database providing indexing and abstracts for over 8,450 journals, with full text for more than 4,650. Coverage in the subject areas of biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, religion & theology, and more. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1975-present.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window Includes millions of searchable citations to dissertation and theses from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with over one million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1637-present.

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