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Health & Medicine Databases:

Try the following databases for scholarly journal articles on health topics. Not sure where to start? Health Source and CINAHL are great databases for health and medicine research with full-text articles. PubMed is excellent for finding articles, but does not always provide the full article for you to read.

Academic Search Complete
Full-text journals, magazines, newspapers, and more covering all fields of study.
- Help Searching EBSCO Databases (video 2:57)
Archives of Sexuality and Gender
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Full-text primary sources on topics related to sex, sexuality, and gender
CINAHL Complete
Full-text scholarly/peer-reviewed journals covering all areas and nursing and allied health.
- CINAHL AdVanced Searching (video 3:46)
Consumer Health Complete
Full-text scholarly/peer-reviewed journals, magazines, newspapers, and more for patients.
- Help Searching EBSCO Databases (video 2:57)
Gale eBooks
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Provides a variety of reference resources on a wide range of subject areas.
- Help Searching Gale eBooks(video 1:15)
Health Source: Consumer Edition
Full-text magazines, newspapers, and pamphlets about health and medical topics for patients.
- Help Searching EBSCO Databases (video 2:57)
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Full-text scholarly/peer-reviewed journals, magazines, newspapers about health and medical topics for nurses and allied health professionals.
- Help Searching Health Source: Nursing/Academic (video 3:38)
Medline
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Full-text scholarly/peer-reviewed journals related to life sciences and biomedicine.
- Help using Medline (Proquest Research Guide)
Medline Plus
Full-text website covering medicine and health information for patients.
- Introduction to Medline Plus (video 3:32)
New England Journal of Medicine
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Full-text scholarly/peer-reviewed journal.
PapersFirst
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Index to papers presented at conferences, workshops, congresses and symposia worldwide.
PubMed
Publicly available website with open access to many scholarly/peer-reviewed journals and other publications related to biomedical literature.
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Salem Press Online
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Research titles for careers, historical primary documents, literature, and general health.
- Salem Press Online: Intro Video (video 2:07)
Science in Context
Topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures, and illustrations; curriculum-related science topics.
- Topic Finder (video 1:42)
Very Short Introductions Online
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Concise introductions to a diverse range of subjects.
- Short Guide (video 3:41)
Wiley Online Library
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Full-text, scholarly; journals, books, and other resources from John Wiley & Sons; life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities.
- Advanced Search (video 2:57)

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Reading Scholarly Articles
This guide from USC covers some excellent pointers on reading and evaluating scientific journal articles.

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