Subject and Course Guides: Applied Health Sciences: Article Databases

Databases

PubMed
PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's to present.

PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. Pub Med includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text
CINAHL covers literature related to nursing and allied health.

The Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health (CINAHL) database provides authoritative coverage of the literature related to nursing and allied health.
EMBASE : Excerpta Medica Database
Database in biomedicine which also excels in its coverage of pharmaceutical research. From 1974 to present.

Tip: If you have problems with off campus access, use AnyConnect VPN. To install, go to AnyConnect VPN and make sure you select the Library-Resources group.

EMBASE is an abstract and indexing database in biomedicine which also excels in its coverage of pharmaceutical research. It currently contains more than 15 million records from Excerpta Medica Database (1974 to present) and selected Medline records (1966-present). Currently the Library does not own the archives of Embase from 1947 to 1973.
PsycINFO
Now called APA PsychINFO. Abstract and index of Psychology and the psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, nursing, sociology, business, education, etc.

PsycINFO contains bibliographic citations and abstracts from materials in the field of psychology and the psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. Updated weekly.
Rehabilitation & Sports Medicine Source
Rehabilitation & Sports Medicine Source provides indexing for over 200 sports medicine and rehabilitation journals.

Professional Development Collection (for educators)
Provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 600 full text education journals, 1965 to present.

Professional Development Collection, designed for professional educators, provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 600 full text education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. Full text information in the Professional Development Collection dates as far back as 1965.
ERIC on EBSCOhost
You can also access ERIC through Ovid, FirstSearch, and the US Department of Education. See Databases A-Z list for these options.

ERIC is the world's largest education database. Published by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI).
Education Research Complete
Search Education Research Complete in EBSCOhost.

Business Source Complete
Business Source Complete provides full-text to a large number of business sources, including business journals, trade publications and business magazines.
ABI/INFORM Global
ABI/INFORM is an extensive business research database with full-text articles from business journals, business and trade magazines and newspapers.
Gartner Research
Gartner Research provides access to research and analysis on information technology (IT) technologies, practices, and strategies performed by the Gartner Group. The University of Illinois Administrative Information Technology Services subscribes to this database. Selected reports are available for students, faculty and staff of the University of Illinois.

Gartner Research contains research and analysis done by the Gartner Group that can be used for planning, decision making, and measurement purposes for making continual process improvements towards industry best practices. It does not include Dataquest documents nor special reports. Other information is only available by request to the University's Gartner representative. Individuals needing help accessing the content should contact the AITS Service Desk.

http://www.aits.uillinois.edu/gartner_research/

ACM Digital Library
ACM Digital Library (formerly ACM Portal) offers full text of every article ever published by the Association for Computing Machinery.

Full text of every article ever published by ACM:

* Journals
* Magazines
* Transactions
* Proceedings
* Newsletters
* Publications by Affiliated Organizations
* Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
* ACM Oral History interviews
* Computing Reviews
* The Guide to Computing Literature
IEEE Xplore
IEEE journals and conference proceedings; Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) journals and proceedings; all current IEEE Standards.

Also known as IEEE Electronic Library, this database provides full-text access to a wide range of technology and engineering materials: transactions, journals, magazines and conference proceedings published since 1988; Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) journals and proceedings; and all current IEEE Standards.

Journal Citation Reports (1997 to 1 year ago)
Resource for journal evaluation, using citation data drawn from scholarly and technical journals worldwide. See Web Of Science.

Note: Current year data will be available the first quarter of next year.

The Journal Citation Reports is a unique resource for journal evaluation, using citation data drawn from over 8,400 scholarly and technical journals worldwide. JCR Web shows the relationship between citing and cited journals in a clear, easy-to-use framework.

http://admin-apps.webofknowledge.com.proxy.cc.uic.edu/JCR/JCR?SID=2FW5wL6lUoDzCbx3EMq&locale=en_US
Web of Science
Access to the Web of Science Core Collection which is the largest citation database in science, engineering, medicine and technology; also the social sciences, arts and humanities are represented. This resource was acquired with funding from the Library/IT Assessment.

The Web of Science, provided by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) a division of Thomson Reuters, is an index of current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from 1975 on. The bibliographic records from approximately 8,700 high impact research journals are mostly linked to full-text articles.
Google Scholar
Searches for scholarly materials such as peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from broad areas of research. It includes a variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
Scopus
Scopus is an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature with tools that track, analyze and visualize research.

Note: Not compatible with (IE) Internet Explorer.

Scopus contains over 20,500 titles from 5,000 publishers worldwide with 49 million records, 78% with abstracts. It Includes over 5.3 million conference papers and provides 100% Medline coverage with interoperability with ScienceDirect, Engineering Village and Reaxys,

Liaison Librarian

Amelia Brunskill

Contact:

Amelia Brunskill
Library of the Health Sciences,
abrunsk2@uic.edu

(312) 996-8323

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Applied Health Sciences: Article Databases

Databases

Liaison Librarian

Locations

Richard J. Daley Library

Library of the Health Sciences-Chicago

Library of the Health Sciences-Peoria

Crawford Library of the Health Sciences-Rockford

Library of the Health Sciences-Urbana