LibGuides: Medicine: Top health and medicine databases (2024)

• AMED (Alternative Medicine) This link opens in a new window

  An alternative medicine database for physicians, therapists, medical researchers and clinicians looking to learn more about alternative treatments - including complementary medicine, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, rehabilitation, podiatry, palliative care, and more.

• Child Development & Adolescent Studies This link opens in a new window

  Child Development & Adolescent Studies, produced by NISC, is today’s source for references to the current and historical literature related to growth and development of children through the age of 21. Book reviews and abstracts from hundreds of journals and a bibliography of thousands of technical reports, books, book chapters, theses and dissertations covering biomedical and social sciences worldwide are indexed.

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• CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health) This link opens in a new window

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  An essential tool for nursing research. Covers nursing, public health, alternative/complementary medicine, health sciences librarianship, and 17 allied health disciplines.

• PsycINFO This link opens in a new window

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  The best research databases for healthcare and medicine [Update 2024] - Paperpile

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  Created by the American Psychological Association (APA), this database contains millions of abstracts, citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books and dissertations, dating back to the 1600s.

• SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window

  SocINDEX with Full Text is a full-text research database covering sociology and related disciplines. It features hundreds of full-text journals and millions of records with subject headings from a sociological thesaurus. Subjects covered include gender studies, criminal justice, social psychology, religion, racial studies and social work.

• SPORTDiscus This link opens in a new window

  SPORTDiscus provides full-text content from many respected journals in sports and sports medicine studies. Subject coverage includes fitness, health, and sport studies.

Over 240 databases are available from the Library.

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