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CINAHL
Provides access to abstracts and some full text articles from 2,938 journals in nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and other health-related disciplines.  Coverage from 1981 to the present.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Provides access to abstracts and some full text articles from journals focusing a wide variety of medical disciplines.  Particularly strong in the areas of nursing and allied health. 

Health Source: Consumer Edition
Features full text access to approximately 80 consumer health publications, including information on health topics such as AIDS, cancer, children's health, drugs & alcohol, aging, fitness, food sciences, medical sciences, nutrition & dietetics, sports medicine, and women's health.

JSTOR Arts & Life Sciences Collections
Provides access to full text magazine and journal articles on a wide variety of humanities, social sciences, and general science topics including: art, architecture, business, biology, ecology, economics, education, film studies, geography, health sciences, history, law, mathematics, performing arts, political science, psychology, public policy, religion, sociology, and statistics.  International in scope, with coverage from the seventeenth century to approximately five years ago.

MEDLINE
The premier resource for professional literature in medicine, developed and maintained by the U.S. National Library of Medicine.  Provides abstracts for publications in all areas of medicine.  Subjects covered include clinical medicine, dentistry, education, experimental medicine, health services administration, nursing, nutrition, pathology, psychiatry, toxicology and veterinary medicine.  International in scope with coverage from 1965 to the present.

PubMed Central [National Institutes of Health]
PubMed Central is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
Provides access to full text articles concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods.

PsycFIRST
Provides abstracts for articles in psychology and related fields.  Includes international material.  Coverage includes the current and most recent three years.
 


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