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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Description: Fact sheets, journal articles and statistics related to public health and safety.
Restrictions: None
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Description: Indexes scholarly journals in many medical disciplines; with full text.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
PubMed
Description: Indexes biomedical journals from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. Also links to molecular biology databases of DNA/protein sequences and 3-D structure data.
Restrictions: None
1Academic Search Premier
Description: Indexes journals in the social sciences, humanities, general science, multicultural studies and education.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1975-present
Use to locate: Articles
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
2Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Description: Fact sheets, journal articles and statistics related to public health and safety.
Restrictions: None
Use to locate: Articles, Statistics & Data Sets
3CINAHL with Full Text
Description: Provides indexing and full text access to nursing journals, practice acts, and conference proceedings.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1980-present
Use to locate: Articles
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
4Consumer Health Complete
Description: Resource for consumer-oriented health information.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Use to locate: Articles
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
5Health & Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI)
Description: Provides information on measurement instruments in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1985-present
Use to locate: Articles, Reviews
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
6Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Description: Indexes scholarly journals in many medical disciplines; with full text.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1984-present
Use to locate: Articles
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
7MEDLINE (FirstSearch platform)
Description: Indexes biomedical and life science journals and international nursing journals. To simultaneously search MEDLINE (1966-) and OLDMEDLINE (1958-1965), use NLM Gateway.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1950-present
Use to locate: Articles
8National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Description: Offers consumer and practitioner-oriented information on CAM practices and issues, research materials (including a CAM-focused search of PubMed), funding, training, and clinical trials. Part of the National Institutes of Health.
Restrictions: None
Use to locate: Articles, Government documents
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
9National Institutes of Health
Description: US government steward of medical and behavioral research. Reports, research documents, statistics, clinical trials, and consumer health materials. NIH institutes and centers also focus on specific health topics.
Restrictions: None
Use to locate: Articles, Government documents, Policy & regulatory analysis, Statistics & Data Sets
10Natural Standard
Description: An international research collaboration that aggregates and synthesizes high quality, evidence-based data on complementary and alternative therapies.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Use to locate: Articles, E-books
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
11NLM Gateway
Description: Gateway for simultaneous searching in National Library of Medicine databases: MEDLINE/PubMed, OLDMEDLINE, LOCATORplus, AIDS Meetings, HSR Meetings, HSRProj, MEDLINEplus and DIRLINE.
Restrictions: None
Dates Covered: 1958-present
Use to locate: Articles, Government documents
12PsycInfo
Description: Indexes journals, dissertations, books and book chapters in all areas of psychology. Many full-text articles; some articles have abstracts only.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1887-present
Use to locate: Articles, Dissertations & Theses
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
13PubMed
Description: Indexes biomedical journals from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. Also links to molecular biology databases of DNA/protein sequences and 3-D structure data.
Restrictions: None
Dates Covered: 1966-present
Use to locate: Articles, Scientific Data
14ScienceDirect
Description: Full text articles for well over 1,000 journals in science, health and the social sciences.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1996-present
Use to locate: Articles
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
15Web of Science
Description: Provides access to cited reference searching within a large number of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world. Contains Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1985-present
Use to locate: Articles
1Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Description: Fact sheets, journal articles and statistics related to public health and safety.
Restrictions: None
2Credo Reference: Medicine
Description: An online, cross-searchable collection containing of medical reference books.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
3Encyclopedia of Bioethics
Description: Covers topics on the ethics of health professions, animal research, population control and the environment.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
4Encyclopedia of Global Health
Description: Covers a broad array of health topics, including physical and mental health, profiles of medical institutions, organizations, and corporations, descriptions of drugs and operations, articles on national health policies, and thematic health topics in the humanities. Includes a glossary of health definitions.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
5Encyclopedia of Stress
Description: Covers many aspects and ramifications of stress, including the biological mechanisms involved in the stress response, the effects of activating the stress response mechanisms, and the disorders that may arise as the result of acute or chronic stress.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
6National Institutes of Health
Description: US government steward of medical and behavioral research. Reports, research documents, statistics, clinical trials, and consumer health materials. NIH institutes and centers also focus on specific health topics.
Restrictions: None
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1Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
Description: JAMA, published continuously since 1883, is an international peer-reviewed general medical journal published 48 times per year; it is the most widely circulated medical journal in the world.
2New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM)
Description: The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) is a weekly general medical journal that publishes new medical research findings, review articles, and editorial opinion on a wide variety of topics of importance to biomedical science and clinical practice. Material is published with an emphasis on internal medicine and specialty areas.
See Journal & Newspaper Articles for more
1Academic Search Premier
Description: Indexes journals in the social sciences, humanities, general science, multicultural studies and education.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1975-present
Use to locate: Articles
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
2Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Description: Fact sheets, journal articles and statistics related to public health and safety.
Restrictions: None
Use to locate: Articles, Statistics & Data Sets
3CINAHL with Full Text
Description: Provides indexing and full text access to nursing journals, practice acts, and conference proceedings.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1980-present
Use to locate: Articles
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
4Consumer Health Complete
Description: Resource for consumer-oriented health information.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Use to locate: Articles
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
5Credo Reference: Medicine
Description: An online, cross-searchable collection containing of medical reference books.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Use to locate: Dictionaries, E-books, Encyclopedias
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
6Encyclopedia of Bioethics
Description: Covers topics on the ethics of health professions, animal research, population control and the environment.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Use to locate: E-books, Encyclopedias
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
7Encyclopedia of Global Health
Description: Covers a broad array of health topics, including physical and mental health, profiles of medical institutions, organizations, and corporations, descriptions of drugs and operations, articles on national health policies, and thematic health topics in the humanities. Includes a glossary of health definitions.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Use to locate: Encyclopedias
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
8Encyclopedia of Stress
Description: Covers many aspects and ramifications of stress, including the biological mechanisms involved in the stress response, the effects of activating the stress response mechanisms, and the disorders that may arise as the result of acute or chronic stress.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Use to locate: Encyclopedias
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
9Health & Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI)
Description: Provides information on measurement instruments in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1985-present
Use to locate: Articles, Reviews
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
10Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Description: Indexes scholarly journals in many medical disciplines; with full text.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1984-present
Use to locate: Articles
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
11Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
Description: JAMA, published continuously since 1883, is an international peer-reviewed general medical journal published 48 times per year; it is the most widely circulated medical journal in the world.
Restrictions: None
Use to locate: Journals
12MEDLINE (FirstSearch platform)
Description: Indexes biomedical and life science journals and international nursing journals. To simultaneously search MEDLINE (1966-) and OLDMEDLINE (1958-1965), use NLM Gateway.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1950-present
Use to locate: Articles
13Merck Manual
Description: Free online editions of the trusted and well-respected Merck Manual for professionals and consumers. Provides diagnosis and therapy information.e
Restrictions: None
Use to locate: E-books
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
14National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Description: Offers consumer and practitioner-oriented information on CAM practices and issues, research materials (including a CAM-focused search of PubMed), funding, training, and clinical trials. Part of the National Institutes of Health.
Restrictions: None
Use to locate: Articles, Government documents
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
15National Institutes of Health
Description: US government steward of medical and behavioral research. Reports, research documents, statistics, clinical trials, and consumer health materials. NIH institutes and centers also focus on specific health topics.
Restrictions: None
Use to locate: Articles, Government documents, Policy & regulatory analysis, Statistics & Data Sets
16Natural Standard
Description: An international research collaboration that aggregates and synthesizes high quality, evidence-based data on complementary and alternative therapies.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Use to locate: Articles, E-books
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
17NCBI Bookshelf
Description: The National Center for Biotechnology Information offers this collection of searchable biomedical books and government reports.
Restrictions: None
Use to locate: E-books, Government documents
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
18New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM)
Description: The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) is a weekly general medical journal that publishes new medical research findings, review articles, and editorial opinion on a wide variety of topics of importance to biomedical science and clinical practice. Material is published with an emphasis on internal medicine and specialty areas.
Restrictions: None
Use to locate: Journals
19NLM Gateway
Description: Gateway for simultaneous searching in National Library of Medicine databases: MEDLINE/PubMed, OLDMEDLINE, LOCATORplus, AIDS Meetings, HSR Meetings, HSRProj, MEDLINEplus and DIRLINE.
Restrictions: None
Dates Covered: 1958-present
Use to locate: Articles, Government documents
20PsycInfo
Description: Indexes journals, dissertations, books and book chapters in all areas of psychology. Many full-text articles; some articles have abstracts only.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1887-present
Use to locate: Articles, Dissertations & Theses
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
21PubMed
Description: Indexes biomedical journals from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. Also links to molecular biology databases of DNA/protein sequences and 3-D structure data.
Restrictions: None
Dates Covered: 1966-present
Use to locate: Articles, Scientific Data
22ScienceDirect
Description: Full text articles for well over 1,000 journals in science, health and the social sciences.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1996-present
Use to locate: Articles
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
23Web of Science
Description: Provides access to cited reference searching within a large number of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world. Contains Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1985-present
Use to locate: Articles
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