Databases by Subject - Medicine & Health

Database Title	Description	Coverage	Some Full Text	Restricted to...^†
Academic OneFile	Search full-text articles on physical science, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and more. Full Text Titles Included	1980-	Y
Encyclopedia of Global Health	Reference to a broad array of health topics worldwide.	2008	Y
Google Scholar	Google search for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports on all topic areas. Use to find articles from academic publishers, professional societies, prepublication repositories and universities.	Varies	Y	For best results, use Proxy
Health Reference Center - Academic	InfoTrac databases which provides full text from medical and consumer journals, health newsletters, topical overviews and pamphlets. Titles Included	1980-	Y
HighWire Press	From Stanford University, includes Web versions of 700+ journals in biological, physical, medical, and social sciences. Titles Included \| Search Tips	Varies	Y
Journal Citation Reports	JCR within ISI Web of Knowledge helps measure research influence and impact of journals and journal categories, and shows the relationship between citing and cited journals. ThomsonReuters provides Journal Impact Factors with current and five year trends.	Current	N
JSTOR	Online archive of complete backruns of scholarly journals in a variety of academic fields. Titles Included \| Search Tips	1800s-	Y
LEXIS®-NEXIS® Academic	Full text news, legal, business, and biographical information. Titles Included \| Search Tips	Varies	Y
PubMed	From the National Library of Medicine, covers clinical medicine, dentistry, nursing and nutrition. Same as MEDLINE. Titles Included \| Search Tips \| Tutorial	1966-	N
ScienceDirect	Full text access to Elsevier Science scholarly journals. Search Tips \| Tutorial	Varies	Y
Web of Knowledge - Web of Science	Interface to Arts &Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, plus ability to perform cross database searches (outside of ISI products) and login to your Web of Science account for cited reference alerts and customization. Tutorial \| Cited Reference Tutorial	1980-	N
Wiley Interscience	Search journals published by Wiley. WPI subscribes to many titles in various topic areas. Search Tips	1946-	Y

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