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CINAHL Plus with Full Text

Indexing for 3,024 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. Includes searchable cited references for more than 1,160 journals.

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Indexing back to 1937. Full text for hundreds of journals, plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. PDF backfiles to 1937 are also included.

Health and Medicine LibGuide

Find health & medicine information, with emphasis on Milne Library's resources.

Health and Wellness Resource Center

A one-stop source for health research.

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PubMed ( MEDLINE )

Provides access to the 9 million citations in MEDLINE and Pre-MEDLINE and other related databases. Some full-text is available through links to participating on-line journals.

Covers articles written from the mid-1950's to the present.

Updated daily.

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Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD)-Related Databases

Provides a list of databases that may be useful to alcohol researchers. Includes access to the Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Science Database, commonly referred to as ETOH, a database of historic alcohol-related research information.

Coverage:

1972 through 2003.

Alt HealthWatch

Covers the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine.

Annual Review of Medicine

Each year, Annual Reviews critically reviews the most significant primary research literature to provide a guide to the principal contributions of the field.

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All issues since February 1950 (Vol. 1)

Contemporary Women's Issues (health and human rights)

Indexes books, journals, newsletters, research reports from non-profit groups, government and international agencies, and fact sheets pertaining to issues and events that influence women's lives in more than 190 countries.

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Covers 1992 to present.

Health Reference Center Academic

Access to this resource will end March 31, 2009. It has been part of NOVELny.

Full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus the wide variety of personal health information sources in Health Reference Center.

Coverage:

1996 to the present

Health Source: Consumer Edition

Health-related pamphlets, more than 130 health reference books, and 80 full-text consumer health magazines.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition

Focuses on many medical disciplines, especially nursing and allied health.

MEDLINE with Full Text - EBSCOhost

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, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.

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1950 to present.

Nursing and Allied Health Collection

Access to this resource will end March 31, 2009. It has been part of NOVELny.

Academic journals, magazines, books and news items cover all aspects of the nursing profession, from direct patient care to health care administration.

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PILOTS (Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress)

Citations to all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events, without disciplinary, linguistic, or geographical limitations.
Also available free at the PILOTS web site http://www.ncptsd.va.gov/ncmain/publications/pilots/.

Coverage:

1871-current

POPLINE

Bibliographic database of 300,000 citations with abstracts to scientific articles, reports, books, and unpublished reports in the field of population, family planning, and related health issues.

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ProQuest Health Management

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.

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PubMed Central (PMC)

A digital archive of life sciences journal literature.

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BIOL 288: Disease and the Developing World

A course guide created for a class with Dr. Bandoni-Muench, specifically relating to an assignment on tuberculosis.

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Last updated for Spring 2006

Health Care Management & Marketing

This guide presents some of the major resources available to Geneseo students interested in health care.

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SOCL 314: Illness, Self and Society

A course guide developed as part of a three-session research training experience, which includes instruction on website, book, and article searching. ”Getting Started” includes a list of links related to general health, mental health, cancer, depression, and eating disorders.

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Last updated for Spring 2006

Encyclopedia of Public Health

Lester Breslow, Ed. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2002. 1480 pp. 4 vols.

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Topics covered include environmental health, drug abuse, epidemiology, nutrition, demographics, and diseases.

Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine

Information on alternative and complementary medical practices, including recommended therapies for specific disorders and medicinal uses for plants and herbs.

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Jacqueline Longe, Ed. 2nd ed. Detroit: Gale, 2005. 2411 pp. 4 vols.

Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer

Jacqueline Longe, Ed. 2nd ed. Detroit: Gale, 2006. 1419 pp. 2 vols.

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Comprehensive survey of 120 cancers, cancer drugs, traditional and alternative treatments, side effects and diagnostic procedures.

Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine

3rd ed. Detroit: Gale, 2006. 4475 pp. 5 vols.

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Information on more than 1,600 medical disorders and concepts. Each article includes in-depth discussion of causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatments, procedures, and other related topics.

Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health

Entries cover topics in body systems and functions, conditions and common diseases, issues and theories, techniques and practices, and devices and equipment. Also discusses the roles of all major health professionals.

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Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying

Robert Kastenbaum, Ed. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2002. 1071 pp. 2 vols.

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CLIC-on-Health

This site searches both CLIC-on-Health and MEDLINEplus, but most importantly will lead users to information
on hundreds of Rochester area health organizations, support groups, and
health initiatives. National health websites selected by medical
librarians are also included.

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Academic Search Complete

A recommended multidisciplinary resource to begin your research in all subject areas. Contains full text for more than half the journals covered.

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Indexing for over 10,000 publications, with full text for more than 6,100. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.

ArticleFirst

Indexes 12,500 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture.

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1990 to the present.

Google Scholar

Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
On-campus users will see additional links to ”Full Text” and ”IDS (ILL)” which will lead to resources available from Milne Library. To have these links available off campus, use ”Scholar Preferences” to set ”SUNY Geneseo” as the ”Library Link.”

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JSTOR

JSTOR, a multidisciplinary database, provides the full text of many scholarly journals in the humanities, sciences and social sciences back to their beginning.

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Full text beginning as far back as 1665.

ProQuest

A recommended multidisciplinary resource to begin your research in all subject areas. Abstracts and full text for both popular magazines and scholarly journals.

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Includes ABI/INFORM Global, American Medical Association, Platinum Periodicals, ProQuest Education Journals, ProQuest Health Management, ProQuest Psychology Journals, ProQuest Social Science Journals, and ProQuest Reference & Research Library.

Scopus

Scopus is an extensive database for scholarly journal articles in the scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields.

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Scopus covers titles continuously from 1996 onwards, including citation data. Some content is available back into the 1960s. Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database. It covers:

• Life Sciences >3,400 titles
• Health Sciences > 5,300 titles (including 100% coverage of Medline titles)
• Physical Sciences > 5,500 titles
• Social Sciences > 2,850 titles