Health Sciences & Social Work: Health Sciences Databases

Department Research Guides identify and define standard information retrieval tools for a specific department. Each guide was created and is maintained by the library liaison for that department. We encourage you to recommend resources for the guides.

Inter-Library Loan

ILLiad: Get journal articles not available in print or full-text at our library.

If you are a first time user, you will need to get an account. If this looks confusing, please call the Reference Desk at 298-2700, or InterLibrary Loan at 298-2761

Health Databases and Indexes

CINAHL

Coverage: 750 journals Full Text

Years: 1983 to the present

Topics:  nursing, allied health, consumer health, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship

 

Consumer Health Complete

Coverage: consumer-oriented, full-text articles, books, videos

Years: Current

Topics:  consumer health care information, including: aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, men & women's health  

 

General Science Abstracts

Coverage: 166 periodicals

Years: 1984 to present

Topics: physical, life, and health sciences   

 

Health Source: Consumer Edition

Coverage: provides full-text access to 280 health periodicals, nearly 1,200 health pamphlets, and 20 health reference books   

Years: 1985 to present

Topics: consumer-related health information

 

Health Source: Nursing/Academic

Coverage: full text of nearly 480 scholarly health periodicals. Indexing and abstracts to over 510 journals.

Years: 1975-

Topics:  all areas of health (with a focus on nursing and allied health)

 

Homeland Security Digital Library

Coverage: 59,000 U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national strategy documents

Years: dates vary

Topics: All aspects of U.S. Homeland Security

 

MEDLINE

Coverage: 3500 periodicals

Years: 1965 to present

Topics: clinical medicine, dentistry, education, experimental medicine, health services administration, nursing, nutrition, pathology, psychiatry, toxicology, veterinary medicine

 

PsycINFO

Coverage: 1300 periodicals, books, book chapters, and dissertations

Years: 1887 to present

Topics: psychology, behavioral science, linguistics, medicine, physiology, psychiatry, behavioral anthropology, behavioral law, sociology, education, pharmacology

 

Social Services Abstracts

Coverage: indexes/abstracts 1,400+ periodicals; also dissertation and book review citations

Years: 1980 to present

Topics: health and social policy, professional issues in social work, social work education, gerontology, poverty and homelessness, welfare services

 

Sociological Abstracts

Coverage: indexes/abstracts 1,800+ periodicals; also books, chapters, dissertations, papers; indexes book reviews

Years:  1952 to present

Topics:  sociology, social work, social sciences, behavioral sciences.

 

SPORTDiscus

Coverage: international serial and monographic literature

Years: 1949 to present

Topics:  recreation, exercise physiology, sports medicine, coaching, physical fitness, the psychology, history and sociology of sport, training, and conditioning.