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AccessMedicine
McGraw-Hill
Books

Access Medicine is a compendium of more than 150 medical titles, full length drug monographs, and self-assessment tools that provide wide coverage of medical information. Access Medicine also features a unique collection of  examination and procedural videos, patient safety modules, audio files, animations, and case studies.

AccessMedicine Case Files Collection
McGraw-Hill
Books

Case Files® Collection provides premier case content with the goal of improving learning outcomes through exposure to clinical cases. The Case Files® Collection features:

  • The complete collection of basic science, clinical medicine, and post-graduate level cases from 23 Case Files® series books
  • An interactive format to help students learn and retain knowledge through exposure to realistic patient cases
  • Personalized functionality to let users mark their progress through completed and unseen cases
AccessSurgery
McGraw-Hill
Books

AccessSurgery introduces a whole new dimension to surgical education and clinical practice. Updated regularly, this comprehensive online surgery resource enhances medical knowledge and delivers quick answers to surgical inquiries. AccessSurgery features fully searchable surgical textbooks and surgical videos,  animations, and images demonstrating visual diagnosis and step-by-step procedures.

AMA Manual of Style
American Medical Association
Books

The online version of the AMA Manual of Style, including rules for citing references. Contains both the 10th edition and the newly updated 11th edition.

Bates' Visual Guide to Physical Examination
Wolters Kluwer
Videos

Bates’ Visual Guide delivers head-to-toe and systems-based physical examination techniques for the (Advanced) Assessment or Introduction to Clinical Medicine course. The site features more than 8 hours of video content.

CINAHL Complete
Ebscohost
Journals

CINAHL Complete is an authoritative resource for nursing and allied health articles. It searches an indexed collection of nearly 3 million articles from more than 3000 journals covering nursing, biomedicine, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health, rehabilitation, radiography, sonography, and more. CINAHL Complete also includes the full text of articles from nearly 600 of the journals in the index.

Cochrane Library
Wiley
Journals

The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. The Cochrane Library includes the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR), the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), and Cochrane Clinical Answers, and a federated search feature that incorporates results from external databases.

The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR) is the leading resource for systematic reviews in health care. The CDSR includes Cochrane Reviews (the systematic reviews) and protocols for Cochrane Reviews as well as editorials. The CDSR also has occasional supplements. The CDSR is updated regularly as Cochrane Reviews are published ‘when ready' and form monthly issues.

Health & Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI)
Ebscohost
Journals

A comprehensive bibliographical database which provides access to over 15,000 behavioral measurement instruments such as questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists and coding schemes in the field of health and psychosocial sciences.

Lexicomp
Wolters Kluwer
Reports

Lexicomp is an evidence-based drug reference tool that offers a comprehensive collection of drug information databases. Lexicomp includes drug comparisons, reports, and reviews, interaction checkers, dosage calculators, patient education resources, and more for hundreds of medications and natural remedies. To learn more about Lexicomp and how to navigate the tool, visit the Lexicomp User Academy.

Natural Medicines
Natural Medicines
Books

A comprehensive source of information on complementary and alternative therapies.

Nursing & Allied Health Database
ProQuest
Journals

Healthcare information from full-text nursing and health journals and dissertations.

Ovid Ebook Collection
Ovid
Books

Search or browse the library's collection of ebooks on the Ovid platform. Includes 100s of titles on topics in the health sciences.

PubMed Central
National Library of Medicine
Journals

PMC is a free digital archive of full-text biomedical and life sciences journal literature.

ScienceDirect Health & Life Sciences College Edition
Elsevier
Journals

Access an index of millions of journal articles covering a broad range of topics in science, technology, and medicine.

UpToDate
Wolters Kluwer
Reports

UpToDate is a clinical decision support tool of evidence-based information on drugs, medical specialties, and treatment recommendations.

VisualDx
VisualDx
Software Platform

VisualDx is a diagnostic clinical decision support system designed to enhance diagnostic accuracy, aid therapeutic decisions, and improve patient safety. Features include:

  • Large curated medical image library
  • Leading skin of color atlas
  • Smart search for chief complaints, diagnoses, and drug reactions
  • Custom patient-specific differential diagnosis builder
  • Tools to improve patient engagement and satisfaction

General Databases

Academic Search Premier
Ebscohost
Journals

Provides full-text access to more than 4,000 journals covering most areas of study.

Academic Writer
American Psychological Association
Software Platform

Academic Writer (formally known as APA Style Central) is a learning, writing, research, and publishing platform from the American Psychological Association. Academic Writer incorporates the rules of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association and simplifies the process of using APA Style. Use the platform to learn about APA style, write papers and create references formatted in APA Style, collaborate with other authors, and prepare your papers for publication.

Acland's Video Atlas of Human Anatomy
Wolters Kluwer
Videos

Acland’s Video Atlas of Human Anatomy delivers more than 300 narrated videos of real cadaver specimens, accessible anytime, anywhere from your computer, smartphone, or tablet.  The Video Atlas is productive and time efficient as a preview, as an adjunct to dissection, and as a review tool. It provides a close view of the real human body and a direct understanding of the mechanics of body movement.

Complete Anatomy
Elsevier
Software Platform

Transform your anatomical learning with Complete Anatomy. Download the app for free to access the full 3D model for your own exploration. Featuring 12 body systems, structure-specific features including innervation and arterial supply, and fully interactive muscle movement, plus a suite of powerful tools and an extensive library of anatomical content, you have everything you need to pass your exams. Create reference material to share and collaborate with your classmates. Screens allow you to set up the model position with custom edits or to record a brief overview of an area, complete with voiceover, and share it to your study group. Or test your friends’ knowledge by creating a quiz.

Complete Anatomy is available to all students. Register following the download instructions to have access to the AHU subscription. Connecting to the AHU campus network is no longer required.

Films On Demand Health & Medicine Collection
Infobase
Videos

Documentaries on the full spectrum of diseases and disorders; titles on human anatomy and physiology; investigations into public health issues; programming on nutrition and wellness; instructional films on health care and treatment; primers on careers in health and medicine; and nursing titles covering foundations, skills, patient care interventions, and more--this comprehensive collection of titles covers the wide range of topics relevant to anyone studying health and medicine.

GIDEON (Global Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Online Network)
GIDEON
Software Platform

Epidemiological data going back to 1348 AD, covering 230+ countries and territories. Over 25,000 outbreaks, 35,000 graphs, and 82,000+ surveys. Includes interactive tools to identify 2,000+ pathogens, diagnose and compare 360+ infectious diseases, as well as to explore the properties of 30,000+ trade names of drugs and vaccines. The application is updated every day by a team of highly regarded medical scientists.

Google Scholar
Google
Journals

Google Scholar provides one way to broadly search for scholarly literature. Various forms of scholarly literature are indexed: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles. If accessed through the Library website, Google Scholar will include links to full-text articles owned by the Library.

HathiTrust Digital Library
HathiTrust
Books

The HathiTrust Digital Library is a searchable repository of public domain and copyrighted works. The full-text of public domain works is available to read and download as well as search. Copyrighted works are search only.

JBI Evidence-based Practice Database
Ovid
Journals

This database covers a wide range of medical, nursing, and health science specialties and includes a unique suite of information that's been analyzed, appraised, and prepared by expert reviewers at JBI, as well as tools to help healthcare professionals implement an effective evidence-based practice program.

MEDLINE
Ovid
Journals

Search the National Librarian of Medicine database of biomedical and health sciences journals using the OVID SP search interface.

MEDLINE In Process
Ovid
Journals

Search citations for articles not yet officially added to the National Librarian of Medicine database of biomedical and health sciences journals using the OVID SP search interface.

MedPix
National Library of Medicine
Images

MedPix® is a free open-access online database of medical images, teaching cases, and clinical topics, integrating images and textual metadata including over 12,000 patient case scenarios, 9,000 topics, and nearly 59,000 images. Imaging modalities include x-ray, CT, MRI, and ultrasound.

Ovid AHU Journals
Ovid
Journals

Search full-text medical and nursing journals available from Ovid.

PubMed
National Library of Medicine
Journals

Search the National Librarian of Medicine database of biomedical and health sciences journals through the publicly available NLM search interface.

R2 Digital Library
Rittenhouse
Books

Search the library's collection of ebooks in the R2 Digital Library, made up of 100s of health sciences titles.

RefWorks
ProQuest
Software Platform

RefWorks is a citation manager. It will compile citations/references you find from multiple places and put them in one place. You can then create bibliographies as needed. It also enables reading, annotating, and collaborating on collections of full text documents in a seamless way. 

Ulrich's Periodical Directory
ProQuest
Software Platform

A listing of more than 300,000 journals with bibliographic information such as publisher, journal type, and whether or not a journal is peer reviewed. Also includes listings for databases and other electronic sources.

Web of Science
Clarivate
Journals

Web of Science is a leading citation indexing platform providing access to search article from more than 21000 peer-reviewed, high-quality scholarly journals the sciences, social sciences, and arts & humanities. In addition to searching the text of the articles, Web of Sciences allows searching the cited references of every article in the index, and researchers can easily view every article that has cited a particular article or author. In addition, Web of Science is the source of the data used to calculate the Journal Impact Factor.

WorldCat
OCLC
Books

An index of bibliographic records from libraries throughout the United States, along with information about which libraries own each title.

New / Trial Databases

The following databases are newly added or are being evaluated for future subscription.

New    AccessAPN
McGraw-Hill
Books

AccessAPN is a comprehensive online resource dedicated to the education of advanced practice nursing students, from McGraw Hill in partnership with Sigma Theta Tau. AccessAPN features a wide range of content that aligns perfectly with the curricula of Advanced Practice Nursing programs, including those for Nursing Practitioners, Clinical Nurse Specialists, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists, Certified Nurse Midwives, and Doctors of Nursing Practice.

New    Communication Source
Ebscohost
Journals

Offers full-text peer-reviewed journal articles on topics in communication, linguistics, rhetoric and discourse, speech-language pathology, media studies and related fields.

New    EndNote
Clarivate
Software Platform

EndNote is an advanced citation manager. It allows you to save citations from websites and library databases, store the associated PDF files with the citation, organize citations, create bibliographies, and insert citations into papers as you write. EndNote is designed for working with large numbers of sources and is ideal for systematic reviews and large research projects.

EndNote is a desktop app and must be downloaded and installed on your computer. Supports Windows and Mac.

New    GIDEON (Global Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Online Network)
GIDEON
Software Platform

Epidemiological data going back to 1348 AD, covering 230+ countries and territories. Over 25,000 outbreaks, 35,000 graphs, and 82,000+ surveys. Includes interactive tools to identify 2,000+ pathogens, diagnose and compare 360+ infectious diseases, as well as to explore the properties of 30,000+ trade names of drugs and vaccines. The application is updated every day by a team of highly regarded medical scientists.

New    IBISWorld Industry Intelligence
IBISWorld
Reports

IBISWorld Industry Intelligence provides a robust, yet easy to use online database of research, analysis, and risk information on over 1480 US industries. IBISWorld Industry Reports are written at the level where companies operate. IBISWorld reports give a broad overview of the targeted industry, its product and market segmentation, cost structure benchmarks, competitive dynamics, supply chain map, the regulatory environment, macroeconomic drivers, and much more. IBISWorld includes access to over 700 industry reports, 750 specialized industry reports, and 100 industry spotlight reports focused on US businesses and business trends.

New    Libby
OverDrive
Books

Search or browse the library's collection of audiobooks. Listen in your browser or download the Libby Mobile App to listen on the go. New to Libby? Read our instructions for getting started with the app.

New    Thieme MedOne Education (features NANDA ebooks)
Thieme
Books

Thieme MedOne Education contains the current NANDA International Nursing Diagnoses ebook and supplement. NANDA International Nursing Diagnoses is the definitive guide to nursing diagnoses, as reviewed and approved by the NANDA International (NANDA-I) Diagnosis Development Committee (DDC).The ebook version contains the text of the book with images, videos, and audio.

New    VisualDx
VisualDx
Software Platform

VisualDx is a diagnostic clinical decision support system designed to enhance diagnostic accuracy, aid therapeutic decisions, and improve patient safety. Features include:

  • Large curated medical image library
  • Leading skin of color atlas
  • Smart search for chief complaints, diagnoses, and drug reactions
  • Custom patient-specific differential diagnosis builder
  • Tools to improve patient engagement and satisfaction