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Major Indexes

These databases primarily contain journal, newspaper, and magazine articles. Additionally, some include materials such as book reviews, e-books, and conference proceedings.

Academic OneFile
A multidisciplinary full-text journal database with significant humanities, social sciences and science coverage.
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Academic Search Premier
Multi-disciplinary database with significant humanities, social sciences, and science coverage. Offers indexing and abstracts for 8,000 newspapers, magazines and journals, and full text for approximately 4,000 of these titles.
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CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature)
CINAHL is the authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. This database provides indexing for 2,931 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1981.
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Communication & Mass Media Complete
Provides indexing and abstracts for over 550 journal titles related to communication and mass media. Includes full text for approximately 230 titles.
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ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Premium
Comprehensive coverage of the fields of nursing and allied health including journals, evidence-based resources, video, dissertations, reference books and more.
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PsycArticles
Collection of full text psychology journal articles.
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PubMed
PubMed is a free service of the National Library of Medicine and provides indexing and abstracts of biomedical journals. The content is from MEDLINE with additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to sites providing full text articles and other related resources. Use either the abstract or the citation formats to display the FindIt button
Elsevier ScienceDirect Journals (College Edition)
Premium content in social sciences & humanities, life sciences, health sciences, physical sciences & engineering

Other Indexes

ERIC via. EBSCO
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by U.S. Department of Education. It provides access to some 14,000 documents (conferences proceedings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, books, etc.), and over 20,000 journal articles per year.
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Google Scholar
Google Scholar is a freely available search engine that links to a selection of resources from the full Google database and other information. Emphasizes scholarly information. Google Scholar searches for information from all subject areas, and is particularly strong in sciences and technology. Information is drawn from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities. The 'cited by' links are especially useful for items not listed in Web of Science, the traditional citation index.
Note: There are limits to searching Google Scholar and you may find better quality information through our other databases.
Lexis Nexis Uni
Provides the full text of news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications. Includes mainly U.S. newspapers, laws, business news journals, company financial information, and industry and market news. Limited Canadian and other international legal research sources.
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Ovid SP
Ovid platform offers several Health Sciences databases in various formats. Please note that the databases listed below are segmented by the coverage dates. Select the appropriate segments for your needs:
- Your Journals @ Ovid - Nearly 100 full text journals as selected by the OLRN (Ontario Learning Resources for Nurses) Committee
- EBMR (Evidence Based Medicine Reviews) Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
- Medline
- HealthSTAR
- Books@Ovid
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