Tuesday, May 08, 2012

MEDLINE® Complete is Here!

MEDLINE® Complete , the latest product offering from EBSCO and described as "an unprecedented full-text collection of the most sought-after medical journals", is now available to our faculty and students! "This exceptional database provides full text for the most prominent journals used in the field of medical research. MEDLINE Complete is the largest full-text companion to the MEDLINE index, containing full text for more than 2,060 journals." This upgrade to our EBSCO subscription provides access to an additional 500 medical journals. Check it out on your computer or mobile devise utilizing your EBSCO login. Please pop in to see me in the library for further instruction on how to search this, or any of our other great library resource databases.

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Sunday, May 24, 2009

The Global Health Index for Public Health

"Global Health is the only specialist bibliographic, abstracting and indexing database dedicated to public health research and practice!

Derived from over 3500 journals, plus reports, books and conferences, Global Health (CABI) contains over 1.2 million scientific records from 1973 to the present. Over 90,000 records added each year, and over 95% of these records include an abstract. Publications from over 158 countries in 50 languages are abstracted,.. and 40% of material is unique to the database."

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Wednesday, January 09, 2008

CINAHL Database Makes Research Easier

"In the 1950s there were seven nursing journals;
today there are close to 500.

It’s essential that any kind of student, in nursing or any other field, has access to information because that’s part of the learning experience. They are required to do research and, in order to do it in a timely manner, they need a biblographic database. The one that covers nursing is CINAHL, ...”
June Levy, Director of CINAHL Information Systems.


As IUON students you have access to the CINAHL database
through your EBSCO login; via the regular EBSCO interface
or the new Nursing Reference Center interface.
[See the links in the sidebar.]

CINAHL = "Cumulative Index for Nursing & Allied Health Literature"
Title link to article by Christina Orlovsky posted on NurseZone.com

Check out this great CINAHL tutorial:
"Using CINAHL Plus with Full Text to Find Medical Information"
by James Carson, Librarian at Lake-Sumter Community College.

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