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CINAHL (EBSCO)

An authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. This database provides indexing for over 3000 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. Coverage: 1981 -

Ovid Nursing Database (OVID)

Ovid Nursing Database includes information from Journals@Ovid and MEDLINE, the United States National Library of Medicine's (NLM®) premier bibliographic database.

Cochrane Library (Wiley)

A collection of databases that contain high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. Cochrane reviews represent the highest level of evidence on which to base clinical treatment decisions. The Cochrane Library provides other systematic review abstracts, technology assessments, economic evaluations, and individual clinical trials.

Health Source: Nursing/ Academic Edition (EBSCO)

This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.

MEDLINE (EBSCO)

MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine to search citations from over 5400 current biomedical journals.

ProQuest Health Management (ProQuest)

Find complete, full-text information from leading publications covering all aspects of health administration, including public health and safety, hospitals, finance, personnel management, insurance, population studies, labor relations and law. Over 800 journals and 4,500 Doctoral Dissertations. Coverage varies Coverage: varies

Health Reference Center Academic (Gale)

Provides access to the full text of nursing and allied health journals.

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Academic OneFile (Gale)

A source for peer-reviewed full-text articles from world's leading journals and reference sources. Over 13,000 indexed journals, more than 6,500 full text. Full Text Coverage of the New York Times from 1995 – current. Total coverage 1980 – current

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)

This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 8,500 journals, including full text for more than 7,300 peer-reviewed titles. Coverage: 1887-

JSTOR (JSTOR)

The JSTOR Archive Collections provide complete digitized runs for hundreds of journals in more than 50 academic disciplines. For most journals in the JSTOR archive there is a “moving wall” embargo (typically five years, but sometimes longer or shorter) on current access.

ProQuest Research Library (ProQuest)

Over 5000 titles and 3,500 Full Text titles. Search for coverage of a broad range of subjects including arts, business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's interests. Coverage: 1971 - present

PsycARTICLES (EBSCO)

A definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains more than 153,000 articles from80 journals. It includes all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each journal. Coverage: 1894 -

PsycBOOKS (EBSCO)

A database of more than 38,000 chapters in PDF from over 2,500 books published by APA and other distinguished publishers. It also includes more than 1,600 classic books of landmark historical impact in psychology dating from 1806, and the exclusive electronic release of more than 1,500 authored entries from APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology.

PsycEXTRA (EBSCO)

A bibliographic and full-text companion to the scholarly PsycINFO database. The document types included in PsycEXTRA consist of technical, annual and government reports, conference papers, newsletters, magazines, newspapers, consumer brochures and more. It contains more than 200,000 records with nearly a quarter million full-text pages.

PsycINFO (EBSCO)

Contains nearly 3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s. 98 percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed. Dissertations and theses available. Coverage: 1887 –

SPORTDiscus (EBSCO)

SPORTDiscus with Full Text coverage dating back to 1985 is the definitive research tool for all areas of sports & sports medicine literature. Includes Dissertations and Theses

WorldCat (FirstSearch)

Catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide. Funding for WorldCat is provided by the Rochester Regional Library Council through a grant from the New York State Education Department. Dissertations and theses available.