NURSING Subject Resources
Many of the online
resources listed on this page are for UAkron students, faculty, and staff
only.
For detailed information on connecting from off-campus, see:
Connecting to
Online Resources.
Alt-HealthWatch
a full-text and image database that focuses on
complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health and wellness.
It has 44,000 full text articles from 160 international peer-reviewed and
professional journals, magazines, reports, proceedings,
association and consumer newsletters.
1990- present.
Biological
Abstracts/BIOSIS Previews contains abstracts and bibliographic
references to worldwide biological and medical literature. Biological
Abstracts contains references to journal items focusing on vital
biological and medical research findings,pharmacological studies, and
discoveries of new organisms.
BIOSIS Previews also covers international meetings, review articles,
books, and monographs.1980-Present.
CancerLit
Covers all aspects of cancer therapy and research from journals, symposia,
government reports, and selected books.Covers 1963-2002.
CHID
(Combined Health and Information Database) is a joint
project of the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention. 16 major topical areas are covered, each of which
can be searched separately. Covers from 1985 on. Updated quarterly.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition emphasis on nursing and allied health.
Access to many full text journals as well as indexing and abstracts for over 600 journals.
Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI) provides information
on measurement instruments such as questionnaires, interview schedules, and rating scales
in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science.
PsycINFO
contains Nursing, Health and Medicine, as well as Public Policy in its
subject coverage. It includes citations and summaries of journal articles,
book chapters, books, dissertations, and technical reports, all in the
field of psychology and the psychological aspects of related disciplines
such as medicine, nursing, and pharmacology. English-language material
published from 1967-present.
See the list of Health Sciences
Article Indexes and Databases for more selections.
List
of Electronic Nursing Journals found in ZipLINK
ZipLINK
has over 175 Nursing Periodicals.
List
of Core Nursing Journals
List
of Peer Reviewed Journals in CINAHL (Cumulative Index of Nursing and
Allied Health)
Electronic Journal Center
Full text articles for over 3000 journals.
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- Resources for Nursing Research: An Annotated Bibliography
/ Science Reference RT81.5.C534 1999
- Consumer Health Information Source Book, 4th edition /
/Science Reference RA776 .R43 2000
- National Institute of
Health Current Bibliographies in Medicine Each bibliography
covers a subject area of biomedicine. May be downloaded for free.
- Search ZipLINK for bibliographies in our collection:
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- Physicians' Desk Reference / Science Reference
RS75.P5
- Physicians'
Desk Reference Index Search Online
- Gray's Anatomy, 37th edition / Science Reference
QM23.2.G73 1989
- Gray's Anatomy
online
- Merck Manual / Science Reference RC55 .M4 ed.17 1999
- Merck Manual
online
- Mosby's Medical, Nursing, & Allied Health Dictionary, 5th edition/ Science Reference
R121.M89 1998
- Stedman's Medical Dictionary / Science Reference R121
.S8 1995
- Medical and Health Information Directory. 5th edition. 3
volumes / Science Reference R118.4.U6 M43 5TH ED
- MeSH:
Medical Subject Headings: the National Library of Medicine's
controlled subject vocabulary used for indexing and cataloging of medical
terms.
- World Geographical Encyclopedia / Bierce Ref G63 .E5213
1995 v.1-5
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