Health Sciences

Description: Contains citations to agricultural literature from as early as the 15th century. Fields include animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, extensions and education, food and human nutrition and earth and environmental sciences.

Date Coverage: 1970 - date
Website: USDA, The National Agricultural Library

Description: CINAHL is a comprehensive resource for nursing and allied health literature. The topics include nursing, alternative medicine, biomedicine, radiology, speech pathology, consumer health, and 17 allied health disciplines. Publications indexed include journals, books, dissertations, and conference proceedings.

Date Coverage: 1981 - date
Vendor: EBSCOhost

Description: Designed to support the information needs of patients, and to foster an overall understanding of health-related topics, CHC provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine

Vendor: EBSCOhost

Description: Health Source: Consumer Edition povides consumer oriented information on many health related topics including medical sciences, food science and nutrition, childcare, aging, fitness, sports medicine and general health. This database also includes searchable full text for current health related phamplets and nearly 130 health reference books published by the People's Medical Society.

Vendor: EBSCOhost

Description: Health Source: Nursing academic Edition provides more than 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Coverage of allied health and nursing is particularly strong. In addition, this database includes the USP Pharmacopia D1: Volume !! Advice for the Lay Patient and Stedman's Medical Dictionary.

Vendor: EBSCOhost

Description: The Health & Wellness Portal is designed for members of the general public who are looking to find trustworthy health information online. The health portal includes free access to to health information, news, journal articles, health related eBooks, popular health videos from PBS, health resources in Spanish and more.

Website: via NCLIVE.org

Note: The portal was designed by Amanda Foster, a graduate student from UNC Chapel Hill's School of Information & Library Science and in parternership with Christie Silbajoris at NC Health Info.

Description: MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations. MedlinePlus also has extensive information about drugs and supplements, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, the latest health news, and surgery videos. It also includes a list of hospitals and physicians, health information in Spanish, health information from the media, and links to clinical trials.

Publisher: U.S. National Library of Medicine

Description: Provides access to over 20 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE and additional life science journals and books. Citations include the fields of medicine, nursing, chemical sciences, nutrition, dentistry, the health care system, behavioral sciences, and other related disciplines. PubMed also provides access to additional relevant Web sites and links to the other NCBI molecular biology resources. Coverage is world-wide but most records are from English language sources.

Alternate Name: Medline
Date Coverage 1950 - date
Note: Use the Pubmed Overview Sheet or the PubMed Tutorial for more information.
Developed by: National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM)

Description: SPORTDiscus is a bibliographic database covering sports and sports medicine journals. Subjects include: sport, physical fitness, exercise, sports medicine, sports science, physical education, kinesiology, coaching, training,disabled persons, health education, faqcility design & management, and much more. Includes more than 1.7 million records with journal and monograph coverage going back to 1800 and more than 22,000 dissertations and theses.

Date Coverage: Indexing, 1800 -
Vendor: EBSCOhost

Description: SpringerLink is an integrated full-text database for journals, books and eReferences published by Springer. Subject collections include:Architecture & Design,Behaviora lScience, Biomedical & Life Science, Business & Economics, Chemistry & Materials Science, Computer Science, Earth & Environmental Science, Engineering, Humanities, Social Science & Law, Mathematics & Statistics, Medicine, Physics & Astronomy, and Professional & Applied Computing.

Vendor & Publisher: Springer

Description: The Web of Science provides access to the three major citation indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Index. It enables users to search current and retrospective multidiscciplinary information from approximately 8,500 high impact research journals. These multidisciplinary databases may be searched independently or in any combination. Web of Science also provides cited reference searching. With cited reference searching users can follow a particular author or cited reference forward in time to find more current articles. Web of Science can be cross searched on the ISI Web of Knowledge interface with Medlilne (1950 - date).

Date Coverage: 1988 - date
Alternate Name: ISI Web of Science, Web of Knowledge, WOS
Note: For support, tips & tools access: Web of Science Recorded Training, Additional Training, or Help Files.
Creator: Institute for Scientific Research (ISI)
Vendor: Thomson Reuters

Description: Wiley Online Library provides full text access to a multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities published by Wiley Blackwell. A quality collection of peer reviewed journals; Wiley Online Library hosts many of the core journal titles in their respective fields. Use the Subject List to access a list of subject areas and titles.

Note: We do not have access to all content in Wiley Online Library.
Vendor: Wiley Blackwell

Description: AccessScience provides online and fully searchable science reference materials. The database includes all the articles, fully illustrated, from the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, research updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks, thousands of illustrations, the latest Science News headlines, biographies, and more.

Vendor: McGraw-Hill

Description: Credo is an online reference service with access to over 500 titles. Credo includes subject-specific dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, biographical data, statistics, quotations, and audio and image files from many different publishers.

Vendor: Credo Publishing

Description: Trusted websites selected by NC LIVE providing a selection of web resources for all aspects of health information.

Creator: NC LIVE