Journal Articles and Databases

in Nursing

CINAHL Plus with Full Text provides the complete CINAHL index, full text coverage for more than 560 journals, and quick lessons and care sheets on a wide variety of nursing and allied health topics.

Clinical Pharmacology contains information on prescription drugs, herbal and nutritional supplements and over-the-counter products.

Clinical Trial Databases provides information about public and private clinical trials.

Health Source Nursing/Academic Edition provides citations and full text articles for medically-related journals.

HSTAT (Health Services/Technology Assessment Texts) provides full-text health information documents from federal and state agencies.

Illinois County Statistical Abstract provides economic and demographic data for every county in Illinois.

Illinois Department of Public Health provides access to a wide variety of health statistics.

Medline is an electronic version of the print indexes Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature and International Nursing Index.

MedlinePlus contains lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia and dictionaries, health information in Spanish, extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, health information from the media and links to thousands of clinical trials.

Mental Measurements Yearbook contains information and reviews of tests in categories such as personality, developmental, behavioral assessment, neuropsychological, achievement, intelligence and aptitude, educational and speech and hearing.

PsycARTICLES provides full text articles on current issues in psychology from journals published by American Psychological Association and allied organizations.

PsycINFO contains abstracts and citations, with some linked full text, to articles in psychology related fields.

Refworks is a Web-based bibliography and database manager that allows you to create your own personal database by importing references from text files or online databases. You can use these references in writing papers and automatically format the paper and the bibliography. You must set up a free individual account in Refworks.

ScienceDirect provides full text articles to over 2,000 peer-reviewed journals in the health, life and physical sciences.  The Library subscribes to full text dating back to January 2001.

Scopus is the world's largest, most comprehensive index to the science, medical, technical, and social science literature. Scopus cites articles from 14,000 peer-reviewed titles with abstracts dating back to 1966.