Database by Subject: Health and Kinesiology
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1990 - present |
Includes full text |
Updated monthly. Provides full text for 5,256 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. Includes full-page images as well as color embedded images. | |
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1978 (select coverage 1966-1977) - present |
Limited full text |
Updated regularly. Contains detailed summaries of publications about older adults and aging, including books, journal and magazine articles, research reports, and videos from the gerontology collection of AARP's Research Information Center, as well as selected articles from 300 magazines and journals. Covers English-language literature from many countries. | |
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Coverage varies |
Some full text available |
Aimed at HIV/AIDS patients, the general public, health care providers, and researchers, this easily navigated site provides a central source for information on clinical trials for patients with HIV and AIDS, federally approved HIV treatment and prevention guidelines, and medical practice guidelines. | |
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1960 - present |
No full text |
Updated monthly. Covers all aspects of alcohol abuse and alcoholism. Contains approximately 100,000 records, including abstracts and bibliographic references to journal articles, books, dissertation abstracts, conference papers and proceedings, reports and studies, and chapters in edited works. | |
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1990 - present |
Includes full text |
Updated regularly. Focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. Offers full text articles, from more than 180 international, and often peer reviewed, reports, proceedings, and association and consumer newsletters. In addition, there are hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts. Provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine dating back to 1990. | |
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1963 - present |
No full text |
Updated monthly. Provides coverage to cancer literature with more than 1.4 million citations and abstracts from over 4,000 different sources including biomedical journals, proceedings, books, reports, and doctoral theses. NLM | |
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Coverage Varies |
Some full text available |
CareSearch is an online resource of palliative care information and evidence. All materials included in this website are reviewed for quality and relevance. | |
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Coverage Varies |
Includes full text |
Updated quarterly. Includes reliable and up-to-date information on the effects of interventions in health care. Provides information and evidence to support decisions taken in health care and to inform those receiving care. Consists of a regularly updated collection of evidence-based medicine databases, including:
The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (Cochrane Reviews) Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE) The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) The Cochrane Database of Methodology Reviews (Methodology Reviews) Health Technology Assessment Database (HTA) NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED) | |
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Coverage Varies |
Some full text available |
Updated regularly. Consumer Health Complete (CHC) is a resource for consumer-oriented health content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic, and integrated medicine. This full text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, men's & women's health, and children's health. CHC offers access to 4,100 evidenced-based full text health reports written for the lay person covering diseases, conditions, injuries, and procedures. Includes full text for more than one thousand consumer health pamphlets & leaflets from trusted organizations. Many consumer-friendly drug information resources including Clinical Pharmacology are included in CHC. In addition, 5,000 Spanish-language health reports and a Spanish-language health newswire are provided | |
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Coverage Varies |
Some full text available |
The British Library has launched 'Food Stories', an interactive service designed to teach users about the changes that have taken place in the UK food industry throughout the last century.
It covers a range of topics including changes in eating habits; food and regulation; the rituals and traditions surrounding food; and food and technology. | |
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Varies |
Includes full text |
Dozens of reference sources in many subjects. | |
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Health and Wellness Resource Center with Alternative Health Module |
Coverage varies |
Includes full text |
Provides reference material as well as full text periodicals and pamphlets from a wide variety of authoritative medical sources. |
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1997 - present |
Includes full text |
Updated daily. Provides over 160 full-text journals in medicine, nursing, allied and consumer health. Includes full-text reference books, pamphlets, overviews of clinical topics, and indexing and abstracts for over 1500 additional titles covering patient and consumer health information. Subset of Health and Wellness Resource Center. | |
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Coverage Varies |
Includes full text |
Updated daily. Features searchable full text for nearly 190 journals as well as abstracts and indexing for over 200 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications. Contains information on health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Also includes many health research books, including books published by the People's Medical Society. Other features include thousands of essays from Clinical Reference Systems. | |
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1966 - present |
No full text |
Updated monthly. Provides bibliographic indexing from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. Contains bibliographic citations (e.g., authors, title, and journal reference) and author abstracts from 4,500 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 foreign countries. Journal articles are indexed for MEDLINE using NLM's controlled vocabulary, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Citations are created by the National Library of Medicine, International MEDLARS partners, and cooperating professional organizations. | |
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Coverage Varies |
Some full text available |
Updated regularly. A complementary and alternative medicine database designed specifically for the consumer-health researcher. Contains almost two hundred articles on medical conditions presented in an evidence-based manner that alternative medicine therapies proposed for use in their treatment. It also contains detailed, evidence-based information on herbs and supplements, functional foods, and other alternative therapies such as acupuncture and homeopathy. An additional section, linked to the others, provides comprehensive information on drug/herb/supplement interactions. The articles contained in the database are entirely based on double-blind, placebo-controlled studies and other forms of meaningful scientific evidence. At present, more than 12,000 such studies are cited in the material, and new studies are added regularly. The evidence-based content has been developed and reviewed by a team of physicians and pharmacologists with the goal of providing consumers with reliable information. | |
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1973 - present |
No full text |
Updated regularly. A Web-based system that lets users search simultaneously in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). It allows users of NLM services to initiate searches from one Web interface, providing "one-stop searching" for many of NLM's information resources or databases. Includes content from AIDSLINE (focuses on research, clinical aspects, and health policy issues related to AIDS or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome), (BIOETHICSLINE (covering ethics and related public policy issues in health care and biomedical research), and HealthSTAR (covering the published literature on health services, technology, administration, and research). | |
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1986 - present |
Includes full text |
Offering complete information on hundreds of educational topics, this database covers almost 400 leading journals in the field. Nearly all of them offer articles in the three most popular formats. | |
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1997 - present |
Includes full text |
Updated daily. Provides full text access to journals published by Elsevier Science. Email alerts are available if you register. | |
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1949 - present |
Some full text available |
SPORTDiscus with Full Text offers comprehensive, bibliographic and full text coverage of sport, fitness and related disciplines. This database contains over 230 full text titles. In addition, SPORTDiscus with Full Text also contains over 650,000 records with journal and monograph coverage going back to 1800; over 20,000 dissertations and theses and reference to articles in 60 different languages. | |
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Coverage varies |
Includes full text |
Updated daily. Provides full text access to journals published by John Wiley & Sons. |