Nursing & Allied Health

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Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (EBSCOhost)
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides nearly 520 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for over 550 journals. This resource also includes the text of Stedman's Medical Dictionary, which provides definitions of terms in genetics, oncology, pediatrics, pulmonology, emergency medicine, bacteriology, and laboratory medicine. CINAHL: Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature with Full Text (EBSCOhost)
An index of virtually all English-language nursing journals, publications from the American Nurses' Association and the National League for Nursing, and primary journals from allied health disciplines.

Cochrane Library: All Cochrane Databases (EBSCOhost)
Search the three Cochrane Library databases simultaneously. For detailed information about individual Cochrane Library databases see below:

  • Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off campus.
  • Maximum number of simultaneous users: 4
  • Full text

Cochrane Library: Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR)
Cochrane Reviews are full text articles reviewing the effects of healthcare. The reviews are highly structured and systematic, with evidence included or excluded on the basis of explicit quality criteria, to minimize bias. Data are often combined statistically (with meta-analysis) to increase the power of the findings of numerous studies, each too small to produce reliable results individually.

  • Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off campus.
  • Maximum number of simultaneous users: 4
  • Full text

Cochrance Library: Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE)
DARE includes structured abstracts of systematic reviews from around the world, which have been critically appraised by reviewers at the NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination at the University of York, England. DARE also contains references to other reviews which may be useful for background information.

  • Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off campus.
  • Maximum number of simultaneous users: 4
  • Full text

Cochrane Library: Controlled Trials Register (CCTR)
CCTR is a bibliography of controlled trials identified by contributors to the Cochrane Collaboration and others, as part of an international effort to hand search the world's journals and create an unbiased source of data for systematic reviews. CCTR includes reports published in conference proceedings and in many other sources not currently listed in MEDLINE or other bibliographic databases.

  • Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off campus.
  • Maximum number of simultaneous users: 4
  • Full text
Health Source: Consumer Edition (EBSCOhost)
Health Source: Consumer Edition offers you authoritative information on health-related questions. With this consumer health database, you can find a remedy for sunburn, discover healthy nutritional guidelines, or search for the latest treatments for cancer. The content of Health Source: Consumer Edition is also enhanced with several health books published by the People's Medical Society. With this database you can search for information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition features searchable full text for nearly 160 journals including the British Medical Journal and The Lancet, as well as abstracts and indexing for over 170 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications. IPA: International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (EBSCOhost)
IPA provides information on all phases of the development and use of drugs and on professional pharmaceutical practice. The scope of the database ranges from the clinical, practical, and theoretical to the economic and scientific aspects of the literature. IPA indexes approximately 750 journals.
  • Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on off campus.
  • Index only
  • Coverage: 1970 - present.
LWW Nursing and Health Professions Premier Journals (Ovid)
Browse the full text of over 60 key nursing and health professional journals.
  • Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff. 
  • Full text

    • MEDLINE

    (and other National Library of Medicine Resources)
    For patient-oriented information on medical conditions and drugs, choose MEDLINE Plus. For comprehensive searching of the biomedical journal literature choose MEDLINE. The Library provides three options for MEDLINE searching: PubMed, Medline via EBSCOhost, and MEDLINE via FirstSearch.

    MEDLINE Plus
    MedlinePlus has extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over 650 diseases and conditions. There are also lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia and a medical dictionary, health information in Spanish, extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to thousands of clinical trials. MedlinePlus is updated daily. There is no advertising on this site, nor does MedlinePlus endorse any company or product.

    • Access restrictions: None
    • Index and full-text.
    MEDLINE with Full Text (EBSCOhost)
    MEDLINE indexes journals in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, and veterinary medicine. It also covers research on the health care system and the preclinical sciences. MEDLINE contains citations and abstracts from approximately 3,900 current biomedical journals published in the US and 70 foreign countries.
    • Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff. 
    • Full text of 1,200+ journals
    MEDLINE (PubMed)
    Search the MEDLINE database using the National Library of Medicine's PubMed interface.  MEDLINE (FirstSearch)
    Search the MEDLINE database using the FirstSearch interface. NLM Gateway
    "One-step" searching of many National Library of Medicine resources, including MEDLINE, PREMEDLINE, OLDMEDLINE, LOCATOR Plus, AIDS Meetings, HSR Meetings, HSRProj, MEDLINE Plus, and DIRLINE.
    • Access restrictions: None
    • Coverage: Varies by database

    Ovid Core Biomedical and ADIS Journals
    Browse 42 full-text biomedical journals, including The Annals of Internal Medicine, Drugs, JAMA, and Science.

    • Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students and employees.
    SPORTDiscus with Full Text (EBSCOhost)  
    SPORTDiscus offers comprehensive, bibliographic coverage of sport, fitness and related disciplines. This database contains over 650,000 records with journal and monograph coverage going back to 1800. The content also consists of multi-disciplinary, international references from journal and magazine articles, books, book chapters, conference proceedings and more.
    • Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off campus.
    Nursing Resources on the Net
    A directory of useful nursing-related Internet sites.
    • Access restrictions: None
    Pharmacy Resources
    A directory of useful pharmacy-related resouces.
    • Access restrictions: None