Biomedical And Health

Agricola (Open Access)
The US National Agriculture Library's catalog of books and articles relating to agriculture.
Alt-HealthWatch (Current NU Only)
Offers full text articles for nearly 180 international, and often peer-reviewed journals and reports on omplementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. In addition, there are hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts.
Annual Reviews
Founded in 1932, Annual Reviews provides researchers, professors, and scientific professionals with a definitive academic resource in 37 scientific disciplines. Excellent for finding literature reviews.
View a list of all reviews available at NU.
BIOSIS Previews (1969- present) (Current NU Only)
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Biological abstracts, a comprehensive database of articles in Biology and related disciplines.
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BIOSIS Previews (2005 - present) (Current NU Only)
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Biological abstracts, a comprehensive database of articles in Biology and related disciplines.
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Blackwell (Current NU Only)
Selected titles available, now part of Wiley Interscience.
Books@Ovid (Current NU Only)
Hundreds of medical texts and handbooks from Lippincott for students and researchers in the health care professions.
Cambridge Univ. Press Journals On Line (Current NU plus alumni)
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CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health) Full-Text (Current NU Only)
The world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 600 journals indexed in CINAHL. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index from 1981 to the most current issues. [More Info]
Cochrane Library (Current NU Only)
The Cochrane Library contains high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. It includes reliable evidence from Cochrane and other systematic reviews, clinical trials, and more. Full text.
ComDisDome (CSA) (Current NU Only )
is an indexing and abstracting tool covering the communications disorders literature, with focus on speech-language pathology and audiology. In one convenient location, the database will quickly identify and connect you to reliable information from multiple sources in your field, including journal articles and books, along with access to profiles of researchers working in this area.
Communications and Mass Media Complete (Current NU Only)
For research in areas related to communication and mass media. Significant full text is available. [More Info]
HAPI (Health and Psychosocial Instruments) (Current NU Only)
Information about behavioral measurement instruments, abstracted from hundreds of leading journals covering health sciences and psychosocial sciences. [More Info]
Health and Wellness Resource Center (Gale) (Current NU Only)
Access to medical, statistical, health, and related information. Includes periodical articles, pamphlets, news and multimedia content, and the Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine.
Health Reference Center Academic (Gale) (Current NU Only)
Note: Available courtesy of the Massachusetts Board of Library Comissioners.
Nursing and allied health journals, plus a wide variety of personal health information sources that offer reliable health information to researchers, including nursing and allied health students.
International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (Current NU Only)
Note: Provided courtesy of the NU Department of Pharmacy Practice
A comprehensive index to worldwide pharmaceutical literature, with abstracts from over 750 health journals, major pharmacy meetings, and all U.S. state pharmacy journals. Covers biopharmaceutics and pharmacokinetics, new drug delivery systems, pharmacist liability, and legal, political, and ethical issues.
LexisNexis Academic (Current NU Only)
Note: LexisNexis online products will be unavailable to users from October 31, 9pm to November 01, 5am EST, for a maintenance upgrade.
Up-to-date business and legal information is the strength of the LexisNexis Academic service. It allows you to search for newspapers, periodicals, public records, and legal documents, often within 24 hours of publication, and in some cases going back 20 years. Most documents are available in full text. [More Info]
Medline (Ebscohost) (Current NU Only)
Authoritative information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, and the equivalent of PubMed. This Ebscohost version includes links to NU's full text journals, and can be searched with CINAHL and PsycInfo. [More Info]
Medline (ISI Web of Knowledge) (Current NU Only)
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Authoritative information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, it is the equivalent of PubMed. This version includes links to NU's full text journals, and can be searched with Web of Science. Includes EndNoteWeb.
Covers 1950-present.
Mental Measurements Yearbook (Current NU Only)
Produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Allows for evaluation of test products in psychology, education, business, and leadership. This online service covers from Volume 9 to the present.
Metapress (Current NU Only)
Note: Selected articles from Frank Cass, Taylor & Francis and Routledge publishers
Natural Standard (Current NU Only)
High quality, evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies.
NU Journals @ Ovid (Browse the A-Z list) (Current NU Only)
Full text access to 120 core medical, nursing, pharmacology journals from a variety of publishers. Coverage begins as early as 1993 for some titles. Updated daily.
NU Journals @ Ovid (Search for articles) (Current NU Only)
Full text access to 120 core medical, nursing, pharmacology journals from a variety of publishers. Coverage begins as early as 1993 for some titles. Updated daily.
Oxford University Press Journals Online (Current NU Only)
Note: Selected titles only
PsycArticles (Current NU Only, no walk-in use)
Full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. Includes over 100,000 articles from 59 journals - 48 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 11 from allied organizations.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection (Current NU Only)
A select collection of full-text articles in psychology from chiefly peer-reviewed journals.
PsycINFO (Current NU Only, no walk-in use)
The American Psychological Association's flagship database of 2.4 million articles, books and other international documents in psychology going back over a century. 98% peer-reviewed! [More Info]
PubMed (Open Access)
Open-access version of Medline, the health information clearinghouse from the National Library of Medicine. Includes links to full text for authorized NU affiliates.
R2 Library
Collection of full text reference books and textbooks in pharmacy, nursing, and pharmaceutical sciences from key health science publishers. Fully searchable and includes A-Z drug and topic indexes. NU subscription currently includes eight selected titles.
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Sage Journals Online (Current NU Only)
Note: Selected Titles only.
Science Citation Index Expanded (ISI) (Current NU Only)
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Science and technology citation and abstract information including original research articles, reviews, editorials, chronologies from over 7,000 journals. Cited reference searching allows you to track prior research, see who is citing your work, measure the influence of someone's work, and navigate forward, backward and through the literature of your discipline. Linked to EndNoteWeb.
Covers 1993 - present
ScienceDirect (Current NU Only)
Selected journal titles from the scholarly publisher Elsevier and its affiliates.
SciFinder Scholar (Available in Snell Library)
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NOW AVAILABLE ONE OF TWO WAYS: ON THE WEB OR WITH CLIENT SOFTWARE. Provides searching of Chemical Abstracts, Medline is also available. Links to full text. Covers 1907 - present [More Info]
Scirus.com (Current NU Only)
A web search engine focusing on scientific information. [More Info]
Social Sciences Citation Index: SSCI (ISI) (Current NU Only)
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Citations and abstracts in anthropology, sociology, urban studies, business and communication, criminology, penology, law, nursing, rehabilitation, and library sciences. Cited reference searching allows you to track prior research, see who is citing your work, measure the influence of someone's work, and navigate forward, backward and through the literature of your discipline. Linked to EndNoteWeb.
Covers 1993-present
Sociological Abstracts (Current NU Only)
Note: Off-campus? Access the Sociological Abstracts here, (QuikBib citation formatting is not available off-campus)
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Sport Discus with Full Text (Current NU Only)
SPORTDiscus with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for sports & sports medicine journals. With full-text coverage dating back to 1985.
Springer LINK online journals (Current NU Only)
Note: Selected titles only
Web of Science (ISI) (Current NU Only)
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Citation information and analysis, as well as author abstracts, are available in this multidisciplinary database covering 8,500 high impact research journals. Cited reference searching allows you to track prior research, see who is citing your work, measure the influence of someone's work, and navigate forward, backward and through the literature of your discipline. Linked to EndNoteWeb.
Covers 1993-present.
Wiley Interscience (Current NU Only)
Note: Not available during the weekend of June 28-29 due to publisher upgrades.
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