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Health Literature

Health information can be found in the literature of several fields of study. This can make researching Health a little tricky. A few observations of the Health literature to keep in mind:

Research in Health is published in journal articles and trade magazines
Examples of good practice in health and physical education are published in journal articles and ERIC documents
Theory and historical information can be found in books
Books provide a more thorough treatment of a subject
Browse the Library's reference stacks and general book collection under call numbers beginning with GV (recreation & leisure), RA (public health), and TX (nutrition)
Find Articles through the sources listed on the Articles tab

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Articles

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CINAHL Complete
CINAHL®Complete is the world’s most comprehensive source of full-text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 1,300 journals indexed in CINAHL. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index, with no embargo. CINAHL®Complete is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing & allied health literature.

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Health Source: Consumer Edition
Covers information on many health topics including medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Contains full text for over 190 journals as well as abstracts and indexing for over 205 general health publications.

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Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Covers medical disciplines and information regarding prescription drugs, herbal remedies, and nutritional supplements.
Contains 650 full text journals and abstracts and indexing for more than 850 journals and the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide

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Health - Specialized Resources

MEDLINE Complete
This database, produced by the National Library of Medicine, provides indexing for the world's comprehensive life sciences and biomedical literature. It includes abstracts for 33+ million articles in 5,600+ journals currently published worldwide and provides direct links to 14+ million full-text articles.

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PubMed Central
The National Library of Medicine's digital archive of freely available life sciences journals. Contains more than 700,000 articles from more than 300 high quality journals.
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Freely accessible database.

Video Resources

Psychotherapy.net
Psychotherapy.net is committed to producing and publishing the best training videos in the fields of psychotherapy, counseling, and addiction treatment, featuring over 200 video titles.
Films on Demand
The Films on Demand Master Academic Video collection includes 39,000+ documentaries, educational videos, archival news and primary sources, lectures & interviews, as well as some dramatic and feature films. It covers all academic areas across the curriculum.

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General Resources

These databases contain broad subject coverage which applies to many disciplines.

Academic Search Ultimate
Academic Search Ultimate is our largest single comprehensive database. It includes records for some 40 million items, with 25+ million immediately available in full-text. It covers all subject areas and includes newspapers and other news sources, general and specialized magazines, and scholarly journals. It is an excellent starting place for most undergraduate research.

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Contents indexed in Ship Library Discovery Search.
Sage Premier
One of the most important publisher archives, Sage Premier includes the full test of 1,000+ peer-reviewed journals included some 1 million scholarly articles. Large topic areas include Health Sciences, Life & Biomedical Sciences, Materials Science & Engineering, and Social Sciences & Humanities.
JSTOR
JSTOR is our most comprehensive interdisciplinary archive of scholarly journal articles. For each journal included in JSTOR, it includes the full-run of the journal, from its beginning up until the most recent 3-5 years. Covers a wide variety of subjects such as history, literature, biology, business, and African-American studies.

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Project MUSE
Covers literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, etc. Contains current full text scholarly journals which cover these fields and a significant collection of recent scholarly books.

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Gale Virtual Reference Library
Search across 1,000+ Gale reference books and encyclopedias by keyword or subject.

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Oxford Reference Online: Premium
Search across an extensive collection of authoritative Oxford reference books and encyclopedias by keyword or subject.

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