Research Databases by Subject
Browse the databases listed below or go back to subjects.
Health, Medicine, and Nursing
- BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) — Search engine for open access academic web resources, journal articles, digital collections, images/videos or research data.
- Biomed Central — Open access articles from peer-reviewed journals in scientific and clinical disciplines.
- Career and Technical Education Database — Articles on vocational/technical topics, including technology, healthcare, building trades, auto mechanics, sales and retail, accounting, graphic design, photography, nursing, and emergency medicine.
- CINAHL Plus with Full Text — Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature Index for nursing and allied health journals, books, doctoral dissertations, and more; includes journal articles, evidence-based care sheets, quick lessons, and other health-related records.
- Credo Reference — Credo’s Academic Core Collection provides full-text background information covering over 80 major subject disciplines and more than 6 million research concepts from encyclopedias, handbooks, guides, companions, and readers. Credo also provides access to more than 1,000 videos and animations, as well as 500,000 contextual visual aids, images, photographs and maps.
- Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) — Open access articles from peer-reviewed journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, and humanities.
- Evidence-Based Practices Resource Center (HHS/SAMHSA) — An open access collection from the Evidence-Based Practices Resource Center and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) containing scientifically-based resources for Treatment Improvement Protocols, toolkits, resource guides, clinical practice guidelines, and other science-based resources
- Films on Demand — Streaming video collections offering curriculum-focused content in humanities & social sciences; business & economics; science & mathematics; health & medicine; technical education; family & consumer sciences; careers & job search; guidance & counseling. Thousands of full-length programs and video segments with new titles added monthly.
- Gale Health and Wellness — Articles from reference books, pamphlets, and journals on health topics. For peer reviewed, use "refereed publications".
- Gale in Context: Biography — Biographical information on noteworthy individuals from past and present across all disciplines and subject areas.
- Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine — Articles in nursing, allied health, and medical journals, magazines, newspapers, and reference books. For peer reviewed, select "to peer-reviewed publications."
- Google Scholar — Open access scholarly literature, articles, journals and conference papers, theses and dissertations, academic books, pre-prints, abstracts, technical reports, court opinions and patents. All broad areas of research, from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, university repositories, and websites.
- Health & Medical Collection — Journal articles on clinical and biomedical topics, consumer health, health administration, and more.
- Health Source: Consumer Edition — Articles from health publications on wide range of health topics. For peer reviewed, select "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals" on basic search screen.
- Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition — Scholarly journal articles on many medical disciplines. For peer reviewed, select "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals" on basic search Screen.
- Heliyon — Open access online journal research articles in life, physical, social, and medical sciences.
- MDPI — Open access peer-reviewed journals in health, sciences, technology, math, engineering, arts, and business.
- MEDLINE (EBSCO) — Index, abstracts, and links to full text articles from the biomedicine and health field; created by National Library of Medicine.
- MedlinePlus — Open access authoritative and up-to-date health Information from the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine; links to authoritative websites; journal articles from Medline/PubMed are included.
- Nursing and Allied Health Database — Articles from nursing and allied health journals; select “Browse” to see evidenced-based resources and video training programs.
- Nursing Reference Center Plus — Current information about nursing best practices for diseases, skills and procedures, drug information, patient education, practice resources, and continuing education.
- OMICS Open Access Journals — Open access peer reviewed scientific journals - medical, clinical, pharmaceutical, engineering, technology and management including conferences, symposiums, and workshops.
- PLOS (Public Library of Science) — Open access journal articles in science, technology, and medicine.
- ProQuest Central — Periodical articles from 39 specialized databases in all major subject areas, including thousands of newspapers from around the world. Options for limiting to peer reviewed and scholarly journals are on the basic search screen.
- Psychology Database — Articles from psychology journals and related publications. Options for limiting to peer reviewed and scholarly journals are on the basic search screen.
- PubMed Central — Open access biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).
- USA Facts — Provides understandable open access government data and analysis on U.S. spending and outcomes for business and economy, government finances, people and society, and security and safety.
- Zygote Body — Zygote Body allows you to see any combination of anatomical features in 3D through a limited open access link.