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CINAHL (EBSCO). Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health. Contains indexing and abstracts for over over 2900 current nursing and health journals back to 1981+. Also provides access to Pre-CINAHL, a companion database featuring rotating bibliographic information about new journal articles as they are being indexed. 2-4 simultaneous users.
Health Reference Center Academic (Gale) The full text of nursing, allied health and medical journals; consumer health magazines; newsletters topical overviews; and reference books. More than 2,000 full-text sources and hundreds of videos demonstrating medical procedures and live surgeries.
MedLine - Abstracted articles from 19,000 medical journals. Also free to the public from the National Library of Medicine's PubMed. GoPubMed searches the same databases as Medline and PubMed but adds a neat index for concept searching.
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Databases Tab Searches EBSCOhost Academic Search Elite to tell you which magazines, newspapers and journals have published articles on the topics you want.
Journals Tab Provides a search box for specific magazine, newspaper or journal titles. Tells you where the periodical article is and if it is electronic or in print. In the example below you would type Journal of Family Practice into the Journal Tab box.
Schroeder, Maryellen A. (2009, August) What's growing on your stethoscope? (And what you can do about it)
Alcohol-based foam can do double duty, cleansing hands and stethoscope heads with a single scrub.
Journal of Family Practice, 58 (8), 404-410.