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Provides authoritative coverage of the journal literature related to nursing and allied health. CINAHL also indexes healthcare books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of professional practice, and more.

Collection of databases containing independent evidence to inform healthcare decision making. Includes full-text PDF versions of the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews for both complete reviews and protocols.

Coverage of adult and special, educational tests, literacy standards, multicultural/ethnic education, teaching methods, and more.
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Biomedical and pharmaceutical database covering drug effects, therapies, and evidence based information to help in delivering systematic reviews of the literature. Includes titles not covered by Medline

Citations and abstracts to journal and report literature in all aspects of educational research. Use the ERIC Thesaurus to browse for tests, individual measures, scales, surveys, questionnaires, etc.

Public health database of information from serials, books, conference proceedings, patents, theses, etc. on international health, biomedical life sciences, non-communicable diseases, food safety and hygiene, maternal/child health, and more.

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Access to citations in MEDLINE (including in-process & other non-indexed citations) with links to participating online journals. If you need to save searches, set up autoalerts, or create a project workspace, you may create a personal account at the Ovid Website. Click on the "My Account" link in the top right corner of the page to create and access your account.

Covers psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, education, pharmacology, and other areas.

PubMed® is comprised of more than 37 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
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Abstract and citation database which includes peer-reviewed titles from international publishers, Open Access journals, conference proceedings, trade publications, and quality Web sources.
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Cover the international literature of sociology, social work, and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Includes journals, books, dissertations, conference papers, and more.
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Offers peer-reviewed, full-text journals on topics ranging from gender identity, marriage and family, to demographics, political sociology, religion and socio-cultural anthropology.
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Provides bibliographic data, full-length author abstracts, and cited references for peer-reviewed journals.