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Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)
Largest scholarly multi-disciplinary full-text database with the most peer-reviewed journals.

CINAHL-Allied Health/Nursing Index (EBSCOhost)
CINAHL is the authoritative resource covering nursing and 17 allied health disciplines with indexing of journals, books, dissertations, etc.

Nursing and Allied Health Collection: Comprehensive (EBSCOhost-NJKI)
Nursing & Allied Health Collection: Comprehensive Edition is a valuable resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. This database contains nearly 400 full text journals, including nearly 300 peer-reviewed titles covering the areas of nursing, biomedicine, health sciences, consumer health and allied health disciplines. In addition to the full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for all journals in the collection.

Nursing Journals (Full-text from ProQuest)
This database allows full text searching of more than 250 Nursing journals. From the opening screen, Select "Collections" and limit to "Professional Collections" CINAHL. Then click CINAHL on the next screen. 

Academic Universe
Covers U.S. and International news from newspapers and wire services. Updated daily. Includes full-text of the New York Times. Also includes business information, medical and health topics and law reviews, federal case law, U.S. Code and state legal research. Most sources are available full-text.


MEDLINE - PubMed 
A service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 11 million MEDLINE citations dating back to 1960 and additional life science journals. links back to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources. You can limit searches to Nursing journals by using the "limit" feature and then choosing "subsets" 

PsycArticles (EBSCOhost) (Full-Text)
PsycARTICLES is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. The database includes all material from the print journals with the exception of ads and editorial board lists. Currently 50 journals form 1988 to the present are available in the database. Click on http://www.apa.org/psycarticles/covlist.html for a current list of journal titles.

PsycInfo  (EBSCOhost)
Produced by the American Psychological Association. Citations and abstracts for over one million articles in 1,500 journals from over 50 countries. Also indexes books, chapters in books, and dissertations. Covers 1887 to the present. Includes full-text of articles in more than 500 journals. 

EBSCOhost  
Use this link to search one or more EBSCO databases simultaneously. You can choose to search any combination of these databases: Academic Search Premier, ERIC, CINAHL, PsycINFO and BasicBIOSIS. See descriptions of each database for detailed information on contents and coverage. Select Search Multiple Databases to use this feature.

Web Resources

CANCERLIT 
CANCERLIT?offers source information pertaining to all aspects of cancer therapy including experimental and Clinical. Produced by the National Cancer Institute, this comprehensive database also incorporates some data from MEDLINE. 

E-Medicine  Designed for physicians and other qualified medical personnel, this website provides access to various electronic journals, libraries specializing in medical literature, and related medical or pharmaceutical information.

Seton Hall University Libraries Curricular Web Resources
This is a collection of reliable health-related Internet websites.

United States National Library of Medicine 
This is a general gateway to Health Information provided by the Federal government. To get information on special medical topics, go to MEDLINEplus and click on "site map."


E-Books

National Academy Press (NAP) 
The NAP provides access to over 2000 books online in the fields of science, health, medicine, etc.

netLibrary
This service offers access to a library of eBooks in a wide range of subject areas including business, health and wellness, education, and psychology. Although you can use some netLibrary features without logging in, to check out eBooks or access your account from outside your library, you must create a user account and log in to netLibrary.

Credo Reference (formerly Xreferplus) is an online reference library that provides access to 150 electronic reference books. It includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations in range of subject-areas covering everything from art to accountancy and literature to law.

HELP 

  • Prof. Beth Bloom (973-275-2035 or Bloombet@shu.edu) and Dr. Lisa Rose-Wiles (973-275-2047 or Rosewili@shu.edu), Health-Sciences Librarians--for advice and assistance with research, choosing the best database(s) for your topic, formulating search strategies, and advice on the best resources.

  • Reference Desk 973761-9437 or Ask a Librarian for help accessing or using SetonCat, online databases, getting started on research, formulating search strategies, or any research question.

  • Information Technology Help Desk 973-275-2222--for problems with Email ID and other technical issues.

Compiled by Beth Bloom and Natalia Milszyn 9/01
 

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Updated on 06/08/09