Description of Databases

Academic Search Elite provides full text for nearly 2,050 publications, including nearly 1,500 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to the full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for all 3,393 journals in the collection. This database offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies and more.

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Associations Unlimited .Contains information for approximately 460,000 international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local nonprofit membership organizations in all fields, including IRS data on U.S. 501(c) nonprofit organizations. From the Gale Group.

The CAT: Harrell Library Catalog is the searchable database containing  the electronic and print book and journal collection.

CINAHL (The Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature) 1982 to the present. This database provides authoritative coverage of the literature related to nursing and allied health in the English language. Topics covered include: cardiopulmonary technology, emergency services, health education, med/lab technology, medical assistance, medical records, occupational therapy, physical therapy, radiologic technology, respiratory therapy, social sciences, surgical technology, and the physician's assistant. Selected journals are also indexed in the areas of consumer health, biomedicine, and health sciences librarianship.
 

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Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (Evidence-based medicine) includes the full text of the regularly updated systematic reviews of  clinical decisions based on accumulated evidence from the primary medical literature prepared by The Cochrane Collaboration.

Communication & Mass Media Complete Database for communication and mass media. This database originated with the acquisition and subsequent merging of two popular databases in the fields of communication and mass media studies -- CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association (NCA)), and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Pennsylvania State University). CommSearch offered bibliographic and keyword references to 26 journals in communication studies, with coverage extending to the inaugural issue of each -- some from as far back as the early decades of the 20th century. It also included cover-to-cover indices of NCA’s six journals (from their first editions to the present), and abstracts from their earliest appearance in NCA journals. Mass Media Articles Index provided citation coverage of over 40,000 articles related to mass media and published in over 60 research journals, as well as major journalism reviews, recent encyclopedias, and handbooks in the area of communications studies. EBSCO has combined the extensive coverage of these two resources, and has greatly expanded upon them (both in terms of content and scope) to create CMMC. In addition, Communication & Mass Media Complete offers full text for over 200 titles and contains citation coverage for additional sources. In total, several hundred valuable sources are covered. To further develop and enhance this database, EBSCO has established two working groups of expert advisors represented by leading librarians, bibliographers, professionals, and other experts in relevant subject areas.

Contemporary Authors provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.  From the Gale Group.

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Dictionary of Literary Biography provides nearly 10,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres. From the Gale Group.

Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary The leading online dictionary, now with pronunciation guides.               Back

The Gale Group a world leader in e-information publishing for libraries, schools and businesses. Best known for its accurate and authoritative reference content as well as its organization of full-text magazine and newspaper articles, the company creates and maintains more than 600 databases that are published online, in print and in microform.

Harrison's Online  electronic version of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine.

Health and Wellness Resource Center  1980 to the present.
Use this CONSUMER HEALTH Resource Center to find magazines, journals, newspapers, definitions, directories, and information on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, Prescription Drugs, etc. Included are links to diet, cancer, and health assessment sites as well as government databases. The material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only.

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HealthSTAR/Ovid Healthstar is comprised of data from the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) MEDLINE and former HealthSTAR databases. As such, it contains citations to the published literature on health services, technology, administration, and research. It focuses on both the clinical and non-clinical aspects of health care delivery. The following topics are included: evaluation of patient outcomes; effectiveness of procedures, programs, products, services and processes; administration and planning of health facilities, services and manpower; health insurance; health policy; health services research; health economics and financial management; laws and regulation; personnel administration; quality assurance; licensure; and accreditation.  As announced in October 2000, Ovid is offering Ovid Healthstar as a continuation of the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) now-defunct HealthSTAR database. Ovid Healthstar retains all existing backfile HealthSTAR citations and is updated with new journal citations culled from MEDLINE using the NLM's HealthSTAR search strategy. The database contains citations and abstracts (when available) to journal articles, monographs, technical reports, meeting abstracts and papers, book chapters, government documents, and newspaper articles from 1975 to the present. Citations are indexed with the National Library of Medicine's Medical Subject Headings in order to ensure compatibility with other NLM databases. Information in Ovid Healthstar is derived from MEDLINE, the Hospital Literature Index, and selected journals. Access is through Ovid.

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Jstor is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible.JSTOR is not a current issues database.

Journals Online listing of print and electronic subscribed Journals held by Harrell Library.

MEDLINE Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, the MEDLINE database is widely recognized as the premier source for bibliographic and abstract coverage of biomedical literature. MEDLINE encompasses information from Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing, as well as other sources of coverage in the areas of allied health, biological and physical sciences, humanities and information science as they relate to medicine and health care, communication disorders, population biology, and reproductive biology. More than 10.8 million records from more than 3,900 journals are indexed, plus records formally indexed in Healthstar, Bioethicsline and Aidsline. Abstracts are included for about 51% of the records.Various methods of access: Ovid, PubMed, EbscoHost and NLM Gateway.

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NLM Gateway is a Web-based system that lets users search simultaneously in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). It allows users of NLM services to initiate searches from one Web interface, providing "one-stop searching" for many of NLM's information resources or databases.

Ovid´s integrated information solutions to access key bibliographic databases, full text journals, evidence-based medicine resources and reference texts.

ProQuest provides access to thousands of current periodicals and newspapers, many updated daily and containing full-text articles from 1986. Our deep backfiles of archival material are also expanding daily as we digitize 5.5 billion pages from our distinguished microfilm collection. Full text access to Nursing and Allied Health journals, to academic journals in psychology and education and to newspapers.

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PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 11 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources

SciFinder Scholar provides online access to CAS databases including Chemical Abstracts and CAS Registry Numbers.  Scientific and chemical information can be searched by chemical substructure, reaction, polymer, biosequence as well as author, topic, company name.  Journal articles and patents are combined in one source.  SciFinder is a client-based product that requires downloading and installing proprietary CAS software onto the user’s computer or accessing it from the public access computers in the Harrell Library. Users must possess a current PSU Access Account to download the software. 

Scientific American Medicine Online renamed ACP Medicine; a comprehensive updated text of internal medicine.

Science Signaling : Resources for Signal Transduction Research.  Features include:
Science Signaling Perspectives, Reviews, and Protocols
Science Signaling Virtual Journal Current Awareness and Personalization Connections Maps Database
Science Signaling Community : Discussion and  Directory of Science Signaling users
Science Signaling Portal : Careers section, notices for upcoming Events, and a directory of editorially reviewed other useful sites in Signal Transduction on the Web.

UpToDate is a practical clinical reference designed to provide instant access to the information you need. It is comprised of thousands of original topic reviews written by a recognized faculty of experts who each address a specific clinical issue and provide detailed recommendations.  Always current, UpToDate can be your one source for fast, reliable clinical information. 

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The Web of Knowledge is the Web interface for institutional sitewide access to the ISI Citation products which cover over 8,000 international journals in the sciences, social sciences, and the arts and humanities. Includes:

Arts & Humanities Citation Index (from Web of Science) is a multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It indexes 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.

Science Citation Index Expanded ( from Web of Science) The Science Citation Index Expanded is a multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the sciences. It indexes more than 5,700 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines, covering approximately 2,100 more journals than its SCI print and CD-ROM counterparts, with all cited references captured.

The Social Sciences Citation Index  (from Web of Science) is a multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It indexes more than 1,725 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals

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