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• Alt HealthWatch

  
  Provides coverage of complementary and alternative medicine back to 1990. (Mostly full text).

• CINAHL with Full Text

  
  Provides indexing for 2,737 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, as well as full text for 329 journals, plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. (Some full-text)

• Consumer Health Complete

  
  Offers full text for scholarly business magazines and journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more. (Some full-text).

• Health & Wellness Resource Center

  
  Coverage of health information from medical journals, encyclopedias and pamphlets. (Full-text)

• Health Reference Center Academic

  
  Articles on fitness, pregnancy, medicine, nutrition, diseases, public health, occupational health & safety, alcohol and drug abuse, HMOs, prescription drugs, etc. (Some full-text)

• Health Source: Consumer Edition

  
  Health information for consumers from a wide variety of sources. (Full-text)

• Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition

  
  Provides more than 500 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. (Full-text)

• InfoTrac Nursing & Allied Health Collection

  
  Includes nearly 400 periodicals of use to nursing professionals and students. (Some full-text)

• InfoTrac Physical Therapy & Sports Medicine Collection

  
  Includes articles from over 100 periodicals specific to these fields. (Some full-text)

• MedicLatina

  
  Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals published by renowned Latin American medical publishers. (Full-text).

• Medline

  
  Covers all areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing. (Bibliographic; some links to full-text)

• Natural And Alternative Treatments

  
  Contains detailed information on more than 180 different conditions and the conventional and natural treatments used to treat them, over 200 herbs and supplements, plus drug-herb and drug-supplement interactions for more than 75 drug categories. (Full-text).

• Salud en Español (Consumer Health Complete in Spanish)

  
  Salud en Español es la interfase de EBSCO diseñada para el usuario cotidiano de información sobre el cuidado de la salud en Español. Salud provee un acceso conveniente a información médica y de salud de fácil comprensión. (Con texto completo)

• STAT!Ref

  
  Up-to-date medical information from leading reference books and texts. (Full-text)

Multi-subject Databases Recommended for
Health Science Research
 

• Academic OneFile (InfoTrac)

  
  (Some full text)

• Academic Search Complete

  
  Provides more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals, with indexing and abstracts for 10,900 publications. Content goes back as far as 1865. Covers many academic disciplines including art, music, literature, history, sociology, psychology, government, and science. (Some full-text)

• General Reference Center Gold

  
  A general purpose database that includes the full text of many magazines and journals from a number of fields and disciplines. Good for popular, current event, opinion-oriented, practical, and how-to topics. (Some full-text)

• InfoTrac OneFile

  
  A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social sciences, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Updated daily.

• ProQuest Direct

  
  A general purpose database that includes the full text of many magazines and journals from a number of fields and disciplines. Good for popular, current event, opinion-oriented, practical, and how-to topics. (Some full-text)

• Wilson OmniFile

  
  A general purpose database that includes the full text of many magazines and journals from a number of fields and disciplines. Good for popular, current event, opinion-oriented, practical, and how-to topics. (Some full-text)